The act of Lallan & Gurukant Desai made abhishek fly in the seventh sky and now he is back with the same director with a hope to fly even higher than that. Gabbar, Mogambo and Beera. That`s what I really expected from Junior Bachchan through the promos of RAAVAN which flashed nearly a million times on each and every channel I switched to. Well after curiously watching this movie, my opinion has turned to 360 degrees, it was an immature acting which even doesn’t overtake his very own act in Yuva. Very first dialogue from Beera in the movie is “bak bak bak bak……†and guess what? I felt the same for the entire movie.
I just can`t understand why in most of the scenes rain has to come ? You can`t get away by making a rip-off of an epic with the use of exotic natural locations and eye catching waterbody scenes. We don`t go to cinema to watch National Geographic Channel. Mani Ratnam`s brave efforts to portray Ramayana are absolutely vague and juvenile. Twist do come in the movie but hardly you care because the time you reach there you have lost all your curiosity and you are just waiting to get out of the hall as early as possible. The characterization might have been done perfectly but there is a big list of problems with this movie. Vital few from trivial many are its sluggish pace, over melodramatic treatment, pathetic screenplay and above all an absence of charming and witty dialogues which should have added much much required flavor to the movie.
One big problem which towers above all is with the treatment to the character of Raavan. Inspite of having 10 heads he is shown confused which is totally indigestible. Needless to say, Raavan which we were familiar to in an epic was genius. But this one astonishingly has got just modicum of intelligence.
Backgroud score is pitch perfect by Asian Mozart which is really a gem in the movie but it won`t be noticed due to poor script. Rahman`s songs will be considered good because bollywood doesn`t have anything hummable to offer since past 3-4 months. Mani Ratnam`s trademark style of filming songs continues with thok de gilli, it`s an impressive one.
“The characters were forced to such situations that the act came naturally†quotes abhishek but its absolutely disputable because there is nothing to speak of in terms of acting from the leads. Only and only expressions can`t serve the purpose. Aishwarya wasn`t impressive at all on any level. Chemistry was absent between the lovely couple what we got on screen was a total physics. Govinda tries to come out of his David Dhawan frame through his fascinating act of Hanuman and it was total fun watching him. Bhojpuri actor Ravi Kissen is the best amongst all who stands out with his flamboyant act as Beera`s trustful man. Vikram has not much to offer except searching through dense forests for his wife and giving tough looks with some handful of unimpressive dialogues.
I wonder was it made for single headed creatures? My single head wasn’t enough to tolerate ten headed Beera for odd 130 minutes. Finally, to put Raavan in kind words I would just say “Bizzaro crapâ€.