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> *Raavan *unveiled at Cannes
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> Cannes, May 17, 2010
> First Published: 18:51 IST(17/5/2010)
> Last Updated: 19:57 IST(17/5/2010)
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> [image: ravan]A trailer of Mani Ratnam's bilingual *Raavan/Raavanan*was
> screened to the media here today. Timed to coincide with the 63rd Cannes
> Film Festival, when journalists from the world over assemble here, the event
> was attended by the lead stars of the movie, Vikram, Abhishek Bachchan and
> Aishwarya Rai.
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> Amit Khanna of Reliance Big Pictures, which has produced the films,
> described Mani Ratnam as arguably the best Indian director living today, and
> said that he and the rest believed in taking such rare movies as *
> Raavan/Raavanan* across the globe. Both the Hindi and Tamil versions will
> open in 58 countries in mid-June. He hoped that this world would help
> transcend barriers.
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> Suhasini, Mani Ratnam's wife and the film's co-producer and dialogue writer
> for the Tamil edition, said that it would help "us understand the grey parts
> that all of us have in usÂ…None of us is completely white or black". She was
> all praise for A.R. Rahman's music, and said that it merged beautifully with
> the story. In fact, the music accentuated picture. Songs have a great role
> to play. They do take the plot forward.
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> Most Indian movies and stories can trace their origins to the two great
> epics, the *Ramayana *and *Mahabharata,* and*Raavan/Raavanan* was not
> different. It has been inspired by the Ramayana, though it really is not a
> take-off on that.
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> Incidentally, Ratnam shot both versions simultaneously, something he has
> never done before, and Vikram and Aishwarya play in both. Bachchan only in
> the Hindi version. He told the media that his part was his career's most
> challenging, most difficult and most stimulating. It was physically
> exhausting, and Vikram agreed.
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> Rai felt that apart from the intricacies of essaying the Hindi and Tamil
> heroine all at the same time, the inhospitable jungle terrain where they
> shot Ratnam's work posed its own hazards.
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> But at the end of it all, she and the rest found a sense of immense
> satisfaction and joy. Vikram agreed, and said in a private conversation with
> me that he dubbed for the Hindi version as well. "If Aishwarya could have
> dubbed for the Tamil edition, why not I for Hindi", he quipped.
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> *Raavan/Ravanan* is the story of Dev and his wife, Ragini, a classical
> dancer, whose trials begin when he takes up a new posting in a small north
> Indian town. There the police do not execute the law, but Beera, who has
> changed the power equation.
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