Ravanan (45 posts)

  • Profile picture of lkailasam lkailasam said 1 year, 11 months ago:

    Dear,
     
    Any body saw Ravanan? 
     
    A new ramayana story with different Raman and Seetha and Ravanan too . 
     
    New wine in old bottle.
     
    I am expecting your comments
     

    | #
  • Profile picture of ravi_eds ravi_eds said 1 year, 11 months ago:

    My humble request is to avoid going anywhere near that theater for safety of your own health :-)

    | #
  • Profile picture of vairam99 vairam99 said 1 year, 11 months ago:

    Movie wasnt that bad. To me movie was good and watchable – some loose ends in first half…
    but it is a must watch just for its visuals..u can never visuals like this for time to come…
    but not in league of Mani’s classics.

    vairam

    | #
  • Profile picture of nana_uja nana_uja said 1 year, 11 months ago:

    I dont understand why people didn’t like ravanan film .. I wonder they understood the film properly or not ? I enjoyed the film frame by film ..

    | #
  • Profile picture of lkailasam lkailasam said 1 year, 11 months ago:

    Dear,
    Any body say how much investment made in this film?

    I hope HIndi and telgu versions is also available.

    Is it possible to recover the money back by money rathinam?

    | #
  • Profile picture of rramachandran_1951 rramachandran_1951 said 1 year, 11 months ago:

    Dear friends,

    According to History Ravanan is a great Scholar, who had written Bhashyas on Rig Vedas. The Bhasyas were preserved in Karachi Museum, and Ravana had written Arka Prkasika, which talks about Pregnancy, child birth, growth of child in the womb etc.,

    I am having a Xerox copy of the book, which was published in 1925 at Lahore.

    I think I already posted a message in this column as Ravana Studied in Subramanya in Karnataka.

    Being a Brahman of South India he was punished and killed.

    Secondly I am having a doubt

    Why people from south India doesn’t like to visit Ayodya like they visit Tirupathy etc.,

    | #
  • Profile picture of vairam99 vairam99 said 1 year, 11 months ago:

    With the opening it has had surely they will break even
    vairam

    | #
  • Profile picture of nana_uja nana_uja said 1 year, 11 months ago:

    I don’t know how much they invested in this film but i heard that they sold it to reliance big pictures about 350 – 400 crs ..

    | #
  • Profile picture of cganeshdpi cganeshdpi said 1 year, 11 months ago:

    The film was good. It was a good adaptation of Ramayana but told from
    Ravanan point of view with a modern situation. Though it would not rank like
    Thalabathi or Guru, the visuals were outstanding. Reminded me of all the
    good qualities of Ravana and made me think quite a bit. Ramayana is named
    and written because Rama won it. All other history in the world is written
    by victors. SO what about the other side of the coin?? Made me think more
    about the Pandiya Abathudavigal from Ponniyin Selven.

    On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:07 PM, gnanakannan gnanakannan <

    | #
  • Profile picture of ravi_eds ravi_eds said 1 year, 11 months ago:

    There is definitely a great dearth in the quality of tamil films that come through today.
    If the movie was Ramayana adaptation, the role of hanuman was a practical joke and made so stupid!

    Visuals (Sets and Aish were stunning) – End of Line as to good stuff.

    For an age old plot – the screen play and script must be mobilizing – here it was a drag and even irritating at times.

    Forget it ! The Rama and Ravana I have known for years may actually sue us!!!

    - R

    | #
  • Profile picture of bondavadai bondavadai said 1 year, 11 months ago:

    Happen to watch the film today

    - The cinematography was very good and the sets were done nicely (painstaking efforts)
    - Vikram has done a nice job and Karthik surprisingly did cuta nice cameo (he was funny and even in brief appearance made his mark well)
    - 2 songs were good (AR Rahman)
    Minus

    - Suhasini – not sure what she had in mind – Vasam was poor ( we could not follow most of the verses – they were blended with some poetry or something and it was too jarring and didn’t fit well for the scenes) – Scope for improvement – only very few short typical maniratnam type dialogs – you can count them.

    Music – Ar Rahman’s music was very nice when you listen to it separately, but for some reason, I could not enjoy it in the theater (not sure if it is the acoustics or the presentation – mix of audio visuals)

    Very slow during the first half of the movie and felt like we are watching the samthing over and over again.

    Vendhapunnil Vel:-

    Sorry guys – could not take the following scene well:-

    a) when the inspector talks to the villain’s brother-in law (whose hand was already cut) and he is hanging on a rope – the treatment he meets from the inspector is the worst ever humanitarian thing you expect to a Thoothuvan (aka messenger) – which epic tells you that you can mistreat a messenger (ooops)

    35 marks

    Sri
    It’s different – News, Views and Music – weekly Radio show
    Every Wed 6 – 9 am PST KZSU Stanford 90.1 FM
    http://www.itsdiff.com

    | #
  • Profile picture of kathiravanr2001 kathiravanr2001 said 1 year, 11 months ago:

    Dear Friends,

    I have had the oppurtunity to see the movie Ravana yesterday.

    In Filmworld parlence, Maniratnam made an ulta of Ramayana ;
    he made an attempt to create a’ Ravanan out of Raman’ and ‘a Raman out of
    Ravavnan’, and to a large extent succeeded in creating sympathy for
    Ravanan also. The depiction of Rama, reminds us Saba vimochanam.

    The performance of lead actors , and the cinematography are really good.The
    efforts they have taken to picturise is visible in each and every frame .

    The pre release hype – makes us expect a great movie – and that makes a
    few disappointed, at the end of the show……….

    | #
  • Profile picture of now_saurabh now_saurabh said 1 year, 11 months ago:

    Hi,
    “Being a Brahman of South India he was punished and killed.” – This is a very racist comment which supports devision of India on geographical basis. Till now I have not convinced myself that Dravidian and north indians were of different origins. I am reading much literature on Aryan invasion theory and trying to find out what is the real truth.
    To me it is hard to understand that how come being from two different races, we (north and south indians) have same gods and rituals. Yes the rituals are affected with local traditions, however the base for both of the locations are similar.
    I will surely try to go deep into this and find the answers I am seeking. But sire, sorry to say here, that your comment did hurt me.
    I dnt know the reason why south indians dnt go to Ayodhya, but I tell you one thing that many north indians also dnt go to Ayodhya. Not being that it is not sacred, but the site does not have much to offer.

    | #
  • Profile picture of sampath_srinivasaraghavan sampath_srinivasaraghavan said 1 year, 11 months ago:

    I will be easier to measure Hanuman’s tail.
    One report was, it grossed 20 crores on the first day; whether in India
    or all over the world was not clear.
    In Pune alone, there were close to 350 shows per day of Ravan (Hindi) in
    various multiplexes and single theatres. Most of the multiplexes operate
    on revenue sharing basis. Of course number of shows in a day will come
    down after a few days.
    General view is Tamil version with English subtitles is better than the
    Hindi version. Even Amitab Bachan has (mildly!) blamed Maniratnam for
    unimaginative editing in Abhishek scenes, which leaves the viewers
    confused.
    Apart from screening in theatres, there are dvd, TV, and other rights
    which bring in lot of money. What is more relevant is retutn/investment
    ratio; I expect it to be more than 10.
    Sampath

    | #
  • Profile picture of shankypriyan shankypriyan said 1 year, 11 months ago:

    Dear Sir,
    Ravana – Sangam, kappiyum, Thevaram and Divyaprabandam. – All irresepective of Saivam, Vainavam or Jainism
    portray him as an evil. I am posting one more today to support this. You can check the references.
    secondly – due to the disturbance in between – travel to north could not be taken
    and this is the reason lot of Kasi Viswanatha temples came to TN.
    There is a Rama temple in south indian style in Ayodhya. Lord Rama himself oredred a
    Mami to build a templeat Ayodhya.

    | #
  • If you like this topic please share it with