Watch Raavanan for these: + Breathtaking visuals + Good BGM + Some of the poetic, romance oriented scenes between Vikram and Aishwarya + Last 15 minutes towards the climax (play between the lead characters) + Vikram + The idea.
While you watching it, you have to tolerate these: - Scene setup is inappropriate most of the times. (No clear answer for Where it is happening? and Why it is happening?) - The climax has several flaws obviously. (Why is he alone? Where are the rest of the Veera's people? How Dev comes to him with a group of policemen without Veera noticing it?) - Characters are making fun of themselves (When vikram says the 'tan tan..' verse, not sure what the director is trying to convey but we are laughing at it.) - Most of the time it is artificial, due to the dialogues and the slang that is followed. (However, Vikram and Prabhu are good to watch) - Could have followed the original Ramayanam script completely. (Directorial brilliance show off when you have the challenge of telling the story to the audience afront but still you keep them interested till the end. Here, it is a failure.) - If the director intends to refer Ramayanam, he could have done it in a better way. (Director spoiled Karthik's role by poorly showing him which is not relating to the current world; However, the director made it good for the Vibhishana character. Remember he has done it brilliantly in Thalapathi.) I think, it would be better Mani try to take an extraordinary tamil movie and then show to the world what he had done, which he is really good at it (like Naayagan, Thalapathi, Roja, Bombay, Kannathil Muthamittal). People will always watch good films no matter what is the language. That should be the spirit of the director. He wasted his spirit in trying to create three different versions at the same time. He can very well avoid wasting time creating more versions at the same time which is, I think, only a marketing pressure. If he had concentrated only on the tamil version, he could have avoided most of these minuses and made us a wonderful movie. This movie is a perfect example where a brilliant director, who is capable of producing long lasting art, being wasted for reasons like marketing pressure, and inappropriate ambitions. Raavanan - Watch it for the Visuals!
