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The film stars Power star Pawan Kalyan in the lead role as a cop, with Nikisha Patel, playing the lead female role as superident of police, Manoj Bajpai, Charan Raj, Nassar, Jyothi Krishna, Bhrahmaji, Ali and Girish Karnad in supporting roles and Shriya Saran appearing in an item number. The film, featuring music by Academy Award Winner A. R. Rahman, is produced by Singanamala Ramesh on a Rs. 40 crore budget and would be distributed by Allu Aravind of Geetha Arts. The KomaramPuli is slated for a release in August 2010. According to the latest and updates of the movie Komaram Puly, As per the words from director and editor S. J. Suryah, release date of ‘Puli’ is possibly going to be August 15. A source reports that this flick will be releasing on 12th of August and source reports, this movie Pavan Kalyan’s movie scheduled to releaseon on 11th of August. You know the release date? write in the comment box below.
The film stars Power star Pawan Kalyan in the lead role as a cop, with Nikisha Patel, playing the lead female role as superident of police, Manoj Bajpai, Charan Raj, Nassar, Jyothi Krishna, Bhrahmaji, Ali and Girish Karnad in supporting roles and Shriya Saran appearing in an item number. The film, featuring music by Academy Award Winner A. R. Rahman, is produced by Singanamala Ramesh on a Rs. 40 crore budget and would be distributed by Allu Aravind of Geetha Arts. The KomaramPuli is slated for a release in August 2010. According to the latest and updates of the movie Komaram Puly, As per the words from director and editor S. J. Suryah, release date of ‘Puli’ is possibly going to be August 15. A source reports that this flick will be releasing on 12th of August and source reports, this movie Pavan Kalyan’s movie scheduled to releaseon on 11th of August. You know the release date? write in the comment box below.
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The film stars Pawan Kalyan in the lead role as a cop, with Nikisha Patel, playing the lead female role as superident of police, Manoj Bajpai, Charan Raj, Nassar, Jyothi Krishna, Bhrahmaji, Ali and Girish Karnad in supporting roles and Shriya Saran appearing in an item number. The soundtrack features 6 songs composed by A. R. Rahman and lyrics penned by Chandrabose. The highly anticipated soundtrack album will be released on 11 July 2010 (today) by Sony Music.
Komaram Puli is director S. J. Suryaah’s dream project and big budget project until now in his career. Initially he planned to make the movie with Pawan Kalyan in Telugu and with actor Vijay in Tamil he sent bound scripts to both superstars. The word Komaram is taken from the surname of the Gond martyr Komaram Bheem, who fought against the erstwhile Asaf Jahi dynasty for the liberation of Hyderabad State.
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Power star Pawan Kalyan‘s upcoming telugu movie Komaram Puli songs (small bits) have been released by Geeta Arts on YouTube. The movie has been directed by “Khushi” fame S.J. Suryah and the music director of Komaram Puli is none other than Oscar award winner A.R. Rahman. Music director A.R. Rahman is likely to attend the audio launch function of the film on July 11.The audio function to be held in at Hyderabad International Convention Centre.
The film stars Pawan Kalyan in the lead role as a cop, with Nikisha Patel, playing the lead female role as superident of police, Manoj Bajpai, Charan Raj, Nassar, Jyothi Krishna, Bhrahmaji, Ali and Girish Karnad in supporting roles and Shriya Saran appearing in an item number. The soundtrack features 6 songs composed by A. R. Rahman and lyrics penned by Chandrabose. The highly anticipated soundtrack album will be released on 11 July 2010 (today) by Sony Music.
Komaram Puli is director S. J. Suryaah’s dream project and big budget project until now in his career. Initially he planned to make the movie with Pawan Kalyan in Telugu and with actor Vijay in Tamil he sent bound scripts to both superstars. The word Komaram is taken from the surname of the Gond martyr Komaram Bheem, who fought against the erstwhile Asaf Jahi dynasty for the liberation of Hyderabad State.
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It stars Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and Vikram in the lead roles while Govinda, Ravi Kishan, Nikhil Dwivedi, Tejaswini Kolhapure and Priyamani feature in key supporting roles. It is simultaneously being made in Tamil as Raavanan with a slightly different cast, which would also be dubbed into Telugu and other regional languages. The film score and soundtrack is composed by A. R. Rahman. The film is scheduled to be released on 18 June 2010. The film's premiere will be held in London on 16 June 2010.
Shooting began in the southern part of Tumkur, Karnataka at the end of October 2008. During filming, Mani Ratnam became ill which delayed the filming for a few months in 2009. However, the film began its last schedule in August 2009. The film finished filming and went into post production by October 2009. Manikandan was hired as the film's DOP or cinematographer. However he was replaced in early 2009 by Santosh Sivan"Aamir will be on Twitter from July 1. He was not on Twitter till now because he thought he won't be able to give enough time to it. But since Mr.Bachchan insisted on him joining it, he gave it another thought and has decided to join it. He cannot say no to Mr.Bachchan," said a source close to the actor.
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Directed and co-written by Mani Ratnam. It stars Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and Vikram in the lead roles while Govinda, Ravi Kishan, Nikhil Dwivedi, Tejaswini Kolhapure and Priyamani feature in key supporting roles. It is simultaneously being made in Tamil as Raavanan with a slightly different cast, which would also be dubbed into Telugu and other regional languages. The film score and soundtrack is composed by A. R. Rahman. The film is scheduled to be released on 18 June 2010. The film's premiere will be held in London on 16 June 2010.
Shooting began in the southern part of Tumkur, Karnataka at the end of October 2008. During filming, Mani Ratnam became ill which delayed the filming for a few months in 2009. However, the film began its last schedule in August 2009. The film finished filming and went into post production by October 2009. Manikandan was hired as the film's DOP or cinematographer. However he was replaced in early 2009 by Santosh SivanSlovenia did not look good until Algeria was a man sent off for two stupid yellow cards (pull shirt and hand ball diving for a header) – within the next four minutes. Algeria looked liked it had the ability to hold to gut a draw, but once the goal was that it was all she wrote. A positive aspect for the United States is that the 1-0 score was not a huge difference in terms of tiebreakers goal difference (goals scored o) on the line.
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The movie is a Abhishek Bachhan, Aishwarya Rai and Vikram Kennedy starrer under the direction of Mani Ratnam. Produced under the banner of Madras Talkies the movie has already created huge shores of expectations and anxiety all over!
The cascade of great names of the cast and crew with the magnificent premiere in London with the Big-B and King Khan gets us mandate to watch it out! The movie clips portraying Aishwarya with her real-life husband-Abhishek Bachchan together in ‘Ravana’ (the name an epical villain character) pulls our keenness towards it all the more!
The story line of Ravana is basically the modern sequel of Indian epic-‘Ramayana’.
Shot mostly in Tumkur, Kamataka, Kerala, Ooty and Jhansi which falls in Southern India, Aishwarya plays the role of a musician-Ragini, the south Indian famous actor Vikram Kennedy roles as her husband- Veer Pratap, a cop by profession and Abhishek Bachchan as Beera.
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As the caption of the Movie reads-“Ten Heads, Ten Minds, Hundred Voices and ONE Man”… is aptly justified in regards to its story line as well as to the epical name with its stunning depiction of the different flavors of the human aspects!
In an attempt to vanquish Vikram, Prithviraj misses the target and kills Priyamani who is the sister of Vikram. An infuriated, Vikram kidnaps Aishwarya Rai and takes her into the forest. This draws Prithviraj into the forest and the forest becomes their battle ground. The dense, confusing and scary jungle sets in motion a string of events which test their beliefs and change their fortunes.
When Prithviraj finds Aishwarya in the jungle he suspects her womanhood. A new battle then begins which becomes a battle between good and evil; Raavanan and Raman and at the end they all confront many truths. You can be sure of a startling climax typical of the creative genius Mani Ratnam.
So how are the characters in Ramanyam linked? Prithviraj plays a character inspired by Raman, Vikram enacts the role of Raavanan and Aishwarya the role of Sita. The supporting characters are also worked out something like this. Karthik is the modern day Hanuman and Munna is the brother Lakshmanan. Priyamani plays the role of Raavanan’s sister Soorpanakai. The role played by Prabhu and Ranjitha are not known yet.
‘Raavanan’ brings together Prabhu and Karthik after more than a decade. The have the same fire they had in ‘Agni Natchathram’. Vikram has said “Acting in ‘Raavanan’ is like being part of three Mani Ratnam projects, because, each and every scene was shot thrice” Aishwarya also has an equally powerful role. Probably this is the film which would bring out the real talents of Aishwarya.
The contemporary and modern Indian classical dancer Astad Deboo has choreographed a climactic life and death dance sequence with a tandav of passion, revenge and liberation for Ash. This is a fusion of kathak, ballet and contemporary dance which will show Ash in a new light.
The steps are complex and new and Ash had danced bare feet on slippery ground. She also did the steps twice over and in quick succession, first with Abhishek for the Hindi and then with Vikram for the Tamil.
Another surprise from Aishwarya is going to be her voice in Tamil. Ash has painstaking dubbed her voice for Tamil and nobody will be able to say she is not a Tamilian after hearing her speak. And making her more beautiful in the film is the celebrated fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee who has designed clothes for Ash in ‘Raavanan’.
The film was extensively shot in numerous locations around India including Pollachi, Ooty, Chalakudy, Athirapally of Kerala, Jhansi, Kolkata, Mahabaleshwar and in the Malshej Ghats in Maharashtra. Picturesque locations like the forest near the Athirapally waterfalls in Kerala is going to be real treat to the eyes. Athirapally waterfalls seem to be Mani’s favourite location as had filmed ‘Uyire’ song “Ennuyire”, and the ‘Guru’ song “Venmegam” at the same location earlier.
The cinematography is by Santosh Sivan, who replaced Manikandan as the cameraman and he has given the film a never before seen look and feel. Mani Ratnam – Santosh Sivan duo has worked wonders before in blockbuster like ‘Roja’, ‘Thalapathi’, ‘Iruvar’ and ‘Uyire’.
‘Raavanan’ has numerous action scenes of the Kerala martial art form kalarippayattu. Kalatipattu exponents Sunil and his brothers who have trained celebrities like SRK and Jackie Chan have composed the action scenes.
‘Raavanan’ is a tri-lingual also made simultaneously in Hindi as ‘Raavan’ and ‘Villain’ in Telugu. With Abhiskek Bachchan playing the title role and Vikram plays the role of Rama. Aishwarya Rai plays the role of Sita in all three versions.
Audience expects ‘Ravannan’ to be the best of Mani till date. By raising intriguing questions on the protagonist like did such a man ever exist? Is ‘Raavanan’ the line that divides Good from Evil? Is there a Ram inside Raavan? And a Raavan inside each of us? Mani Ratnam has opened our minds to question our conscience.
Music of the movie is composed by Oscar winner A R Rahman with lyrics penned by Vairamuthu. It features 6 songs and the music was soft launched on May 5 by Sony Music.
‘Raavanan’ is produced by Mani Ratnam under the banner of Madras Talkies at a budget of Rs. 55 crores. Being his home production, Mani Ratnam has not compromised anything for the quality. He has even brought specific dogs that look like wolves from Australia for a whopping Rs.3 crores for a particular scene.
Perhaps this is the most anticipated film in recent times. Rightly so given the cast and crew assembled. Produced and directed by Mani Ratnam, ‘Raavanan’ stars Vikram, Aishwarya Rai and Prithviraj in the lead roles. The other cast comprises Prabhu, Karthik, Priyamani, Ranjitha, Munna and others.
‘Raavanan’ is inspired from the Asokavanam episode in Ramayanam. It is a modern day version of the episode where Raavanan kidnaps Sita and keeps her in Asokavanam. Later Raman ventures to save his wife and bring her back.
The story of ‘Raavanan’ is said to be this. Dev (Prithviraj) is a police officer who falls in love with a classical dancer Ragini (Aishwarya Rai) and marries her. Post marriage Dev is posted in a tribal town controlled by Veera (Vikram) whose writs alone control the people of the town. Veera, the warlord is seen as challenger and the law enforcers lead by Dev believe the key to bringing order to the place is to crush Veera.
In an attempt to vanquish Vikram, Prithviraj misses the target and kills Priyamani who is the sister of Vikram. An infuriated, Vikram kidnaps Aishwarya Rai and takes her into the forest. This draws Prithviraj into the forest and the forest becomes their battle ground. The dense, confusing and scary jungle sets in motion a string of events which test their beliefs and change their fortunes.
When Prithviraj finds Aishwarya in the jungle he suspects her womanhood. A new battle then begins which becomes a battle between good and evil; Raavanan and Raman and at the end they all confront many truths. You can be sure of a startling climax typical of the creative genius Mani Ratnam.
So how are the characters in Ramanyam linked? Prithviraj plays a character inspired by Raman, Vikram enacts the role of Raavanan and Aishwarya the role of Sita. The supporting characters are also worked out something like this. Karthik is the modern day Hanuman and Munna is the brother Lakshmanan. Priyamani plays the role of Raavanan’s sister Soorpanakai. The role played by Prabhu and Ranjitha are not known yet.
‘Raavanan’ brings together Prabhu and Karthik after more than a decade. The have the same fire they had in ‘Agni Natchathram’. Vikram has said “Acting in ‘Raavanan’ is like being part of three Mani Ratnam projects, because, each and every scene was shot thrice” Aishwarya also has an equally powerful role. Probably this is the film which would bring out the real talents of Aishwarya.
The contemporary and modern Indian classical dancer Astad Deboo has choreographed a climactic life and death dance sequence with a tandav of passion, revenge and liberation for Ash. This is a fusion of kathak, ballet and contemporary dance which will show Ash in a new light.
The steps are complex and new and Ash had danced bare feet on slippery ground. She also did the steps twice over and in quick succession, first with Abhishek for the Hindi and then with Vikram for the Tamil.
Another surprise from Aishwarya is going to be her voice in Tamil. Ash has painstaking dubbed her voice for Tamil and nobody will be able to say she is not a Tamilian after hearing her speak. And making her more beautiful in the film is the celebrated fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee who has designed clothes for Ash in ‘Raavanan’.
The film was extensively shot in numerous locations around India including Pollachi, Ooty, Chalakudy, Athirapally of Kerala, Jhansi, Kolkata, Mahabaleshwar and in the Malshej Ghats in Maharashtra. Picturesque locations like the forest near the Athirapally waterfalls in Kerala is going to be real treat to the eyes. Athirapally waterfalls seem to be Mani’s favourite location as had filmed ‘Uyire’ song “Ennuyire”, and the ‘Guru’ song “Venmegam” at the same location earlier.
The cinematography is by Santosh Sivan, who replaced Manikandan as the cameraman and he has given the film a never before seen look and feel. Mani Ratnam – Santosh Sivan duo has worked wonders before in blockbuster like ‘Roja’, ‘Thalapathi’, ‘Iruvar’ and ‘Uyire’.
‘Raavanan’ has numerous action scenes of the Kerala martial art form kalarippayattu. Kalatipattu exponents Sunil and his brothers who have trained celebrities like SRK and Jackie Chan have composed the action scenes.
‘Raavanan’ is a tri-lingual also made simultaneously in Hindi as ‘Raavan’ and ‘Villain’ in Telugu. With Abhiskek Bachchan playing the title role and Vikram plays the role of Rama. Aishwarya Rai plays the role of Sita in all three versions.
Audience expects ‘Ravannan’ to be the best of Mani till date. By raising intriguing questions on the protagonist like did such a man ever exist? Is ‘Raavanan’ the line that divides Good from Evil? Is there a Ram inside Raavan? And a Raavan inside each of us? Mani Ratnam has opened our minds to question our conscience.
Music of the movie is composed by Oscar winner A R Rahman with lyrics penned by Vairamuthu. It features 6 songs and the music was soft launched on May 5 by Sony Music.
‘Raavanan’ is produced by Mani Ratnam under the banner of Madras Talkies at a budget of Rs. 55 crores. Being his home production, Mani Ratnam has not compromised anything for the quality. He has even brought specific dogs that look like wolves from Australia for a whopping Rs.3 crores for a particular scene.
‘Raavanan’ is inspired from the Asokavanam episode in Ramayanam. It is a modern day version of the episode where Raavanan kidnaps Sita and keeps her in Asokavanam. Later Raman ventures to save his wife and bring her back.
Broken down in spirits as his happiness is completely lost through his close blood relation, it’s turn for him to retaliate. It is just as you expected as Beera kidnaps Raghini only to find the justice in his own way.
Highly anticipated movie of the year, Raavan is all set to release on June 18th 2010. The movie releases as Raavan in Hindi, Raavanan in Tamil and Villain in Telugu. Raavan Movie is directed by Mani Ratnam and acted by Abhishek Bachchan , Vikram and Aishwarya Rai.
While everyone thinks that Vikram plays a character based on Raavana in Mani Ratnam’s Raavanan, the film’s most wellkept secret is out. Vikram’s character in the forthcoming film is not only based on the life of Raavana but also on Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy.
Villain (Telugu version of Raavanan) is not a story, it is a world. Dev (Prithvi Raj) falls in love with Ragini (Rai), a spunky classical dancer who is as unconventional as him. They get married and he takes up his new post in a small town in southern India. A town where the word of law is not the police but Veeraya (Vikram), a tribal who has, over the years, shifted the power equation of the place from the ruling to the have-nots of the area. Dev knows that the key to bringing order to any place is to vanquish the big fish; in this case – Veeraya. In one stroke Dev manages to rip open Veeraya’s word, and set in motion a chain of events which will claim lives, change fortune
Whats Good :
Choreography by Ganesh Acharya and Action by Sham Kaushal deserves special mention undoubtedly.
Cinematography by Santosh Sivan and V. Manikandan unfolds the story in sheer shimmer all through playing with the various shades of green and available light. Samir Chanda’s Production design is awesome and last but certainly not the least A. R. Rahman’s music effortlessly scores though out of all the songs, only two stands out for their content and singing brilliance.
Story Line :
To begin with, Dev falls in love with Ragini, a classical dancer, who is as unconventional as him and getting married and by taking up his new post and settling down in a small town in South India, they soon realize that in Town, the police is not the law, but Veeraya, a tribal leader who has over the years taken up the baton ruling this area.
Dev thinks the un-thinkable and understands that if he has to restore peace bring back the law in its basic form, he has to vanquish the Veeraya.
Dev does succeed in creating a hole in Veeraya’s world and in the chain of events Ragini is drawn into the vortex of things and whisked away by Veeraya into the deepest depths of the jungle with Dev beginning a search for his wife which rolls the story along.
The jungle being dark and scary, entwines the characters into a fascinating journey that becomes their destiny, where each of them will come to face ‘truth’ head-on and their beliefs will be tested, their convictions and emotions will come under the blade which makes the film very intriguing from inside-out.
The jungle practically becomes a battleground, an eternal battle between the Good and the Evil; battle between Ram and Ravan.
This film will have numerous action scenes and stunts performed by the actors. The stunts are directed by Mani Ratnam and are choreographed by Peter Hein, who received Filmfare action award for the Hindi version of Ghajini and Anniyan. The Kerala martial art Kalarippayattu is also featured in the film. Dancer Astad Deboo choreographed a passionate chase scene and tandav dance between Abhishek and Aishwarya for the film. Indian fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee designed Aishwarya Rai's costumes in the film.
Raavan has been shot in numerous locations around India including the forests of Karnataka (Tumkur), Kerala (Athirappilly Falls), Ooty, Jhansi, Kolkata, Mahabaleshwar and in the Malshej Ghats in Maharashtra.
Raavan is a forthcoming Hindi film directed and co-written by Mani Ratnam. It stars Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and Vikram in the lead roles while Govinda, Ravi Kishan, Nikhil Dwivedi, Tejaswini Kolhapure and Priyamani feature in key supporting roles. It is simultaneously being made in Tamil as Raavanan with a slightly different cast, which would also be dubbed into Telugu and other regional languages. The film score and soundtrack is composed by A. R. Rahman. The film is scheduled to be released on 18 June 2010. The film's premiere will be held in London on 16 June 2010.
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Shooting began in the southern part of Tumkur, Karnataka at the end of October 2008. During filming, Mani Ratnam became ill which delayed the filming for a few months in 2009. However, the film began its last schedule in August 2009. The film finished filming and went into post production by October 2009. Manikandan was hired as the film's DOP or cinematographer. However he was replaced in early 2009 by Santosh SivanPerhaps this is the most anticipated film in recent times. Rightly so given the cast and crew assembled. Produced and directed by Mani Ratnam, ‘Raavanan’ stars Vikram, Aishwarya Rai and Prithviraj in the lead roles. The other cast comprises Prabhu, Karthik, Priyamani, Ranjitha, Munna and others.
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‘Raavanan’ is inspired from the Asokavanam episode in Ramayanam. It is a modern day version of the episode where Raavanan kidnaps Sita and keeps her in Asokavanam. Later Raman ventures to save his wife and bring her back.The story of ‘Raavanan’ is said to be this. Dev (Prithviraj) is a police officer who falls in love with a classical dancer Ragini (Aishwarya Rai) and marries her. Post marriage Dev is posted in a tribal town controlled by Veera (Vikram) whose writs alone control the people of the town. Veera, the warlord is seen as challenger and the law enforcers lead by Dev believe the key to bringing order to the place is to crush Veera.
In an attempt to vanquish Vikram, Prithviraj misses the target and kills Priyamani who is the sister of Vikram. An infuriated, Vikram kidnaps Aishwarya Rai and takes her into the forest. This draws Prithviraj into the forest and the forest becomes their battle ground. The dense, confusing and scary jungle sets in motion a string of events which test their beliefs and change their fortunes.
When Prithviraj finds Aishwarya in the jungle he suspects her womanhood. A new battle then begins which becomes a battle between good and evil; Raavanan and Raman and at the end they all confront many truths. You can be sure of a startling climax typical of the creative genius Mani Ratnam.
So how are the characters in Ramanyam linked? Prithviraj plays a character inspired by Raman, Vikram enacts the role of Raavanan and Aishwarya the role of Sita. The supporting characters are also worked out something like this. Karthik is the modern day Hanuman and Munna is the brother Lakshmanan. Priyamani plays the role of Raavanan’s sister Soorpanakai. The role played by Prabhu and Ranjitha are not known yet.
‘Raavanan’ brings together Prabhu and Karthik after more than a decade. The have the same fire they had in ‘Agni Natchathram’. Vikram has said “Acting in ‘Raavanan’ is like being part of three Mani Ratnam projects, because, each and every scene was shot thrice” Aishwarya also has an equally powerful role. Probably this is the film which would bring out the real talents of Aishwarya.
The contemporary and modern Indian classical dancer Astad Deboo has choreographed a climactic life and death dance sequence with a tandav of passion, revenge and liberation for Ash. This is a fusion of kathak, ballet and contemporary dance which will show Ash in a new light.
The steps are complex and new and Ash had danced bare feet on slippery ground. She also did the steps twice over and in quick succession, first with Abhishek for the Hindi and then with Vikram for the Tamil.
Another surprise from Aishwarya is going to be her voice in Tamil. Ash has painstaking dubbed her voice for Tamil and nobody will be able to say she is not a Tamilian after hearing her speak. And making her more beautiful in the film is the celebrated fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee who has designed clothes for Ash in ‘Raavanan’.
The film was extensively shot in numerous locations around India including Pollachi, Ooty, Chalakudy, Athirapally of Kerala, Jhansi, Kolkata, Mahabaleshwar and in the Malshej Ghats in Maharashtra. Picturesque locations like the forest near the Athirapally waterfalls in Kerala is going to be real treat to the eyes. Athirapally waterfalls seem to be Mani’s favourite location as had filmed ‘Uyire’ song “Ennuyire”, and the ‘Guru’ song “Venmegam” at the same location earlier.
The cinematography is by Santosh Sivan, who replaced Manikandan as the cameraman and he has given the film a never before seen look and feel. Mani Ratnam – Santosh Sivan duo has worked wonders before in blockbuster like ‘Roja’, ‘Thalapathi’, ‘Iruvar’ and ‘Uyire’.
‘Raavanan’ has numerous action scenes of the Kerala martial art form kalarippayattu. Kalatipattu exponents Sunil and his brothers who have trained celebrities like SRK and Jackie Chan have composed the action scenes.
‘Raavanan’ is a tri-lingual also made simultaneously in Hindi as ‘Raavan’ and ‘Villain’ in Telugu. With Abhiskek Bachchan playing the title role and Vikram plays the role of Rama. Aishwarya Rai plays the role of Sita in all three versions.
Audience expects ‘Ravannan’ to be the best of Mani till date. By raising intriguing questions on the protagonist like did such a man ever exist? Is ‘Raavanan’ the line that divides Good from Evil? Is there a Ram inside Raavan? And a Raavan inside each of us? Mani Ratnam has opened our minds to question our conscience.
Music of the movie is composed by Oscar winner A R Rahman with lyrics penned by Vairamuthu. It features 6 songs and the music was soft launched on May 5 by Sony Music.
‘Raavanan’ is produced by Mani Ratnam under the banner of Madras Talkies at a budget of Rs. 55 crores. Being his home production, Mani Ratnam has not compromised anything for the quality. He has even brought specific dogs that look like wolves from Australia for a whopping Rs.3 crores for a particular scene.
‘Raavanan’ is distributed by Madras Talkies and Big Cinemas and will hit the screens on June 18, 2010.
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Famous Tamil Nadu singing show “Super Singer Junior 2”. Now these five super talented singers are fighting each other for the ultimate win as the time draws near.
Today the final episode of the show is about to air and the fans and audience is simply dying with anticipation. The Super Singer Junior show has come a very long way since its beginning in June 2009. Since that time the show has produced a huge array of talented artists a lot of which picked up instant fame and success because of being featured on the show. Many of those artists are singing as background singers in Tamil or Hindi movies or are on their way to releasing their own albums. At this point in the show the judges don’t have a lot to do but still they would be encouraging the children along with their performances and pointing out areas of improvement, though there is not much chance to improve at this point.
The judges of the show are Chithra, Mano and singer Malgudi Shubha. These judges have worked really hard to select the deserving singers since the start of the show and then eliminating them one by one in search of the ultimate winner. The final winner of the show would get a beautiful villa worth Rs. 2,500,000.
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