is the international version further edited ? I think this movie would be a decent one if it was further edited out and cut the time to less than 2 hours.
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Karthik Subramaniam < [email protected]> wrote: > > > de ja vu? I remember SLumdog faced with similar reactions. The west loved > it and India was almost up in arms against it. > > > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 7:31 AM, jeevinth <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Well when most of the Indian film critics are throwing everything they >> have got @ Raavan the western world has a different take on it.... >> >> >> The Newyork Times has called Raavan as "An Indian Epic With Bollywood >> Glamour" and has gone ahead and labeled it as "Critics' Pick" now dats great >> after reading our sleepy critics give it 1-1/2 stars >> >> Extracts from NewYork Times >> >> >> >> *MOVIE REVIEW | 'RAAVAN'* >> *An Indian Epic With Bollywood Glamour* >> >> This film has been designated as a Critics' Pick. >> >> The low-caste Beera rules the forest in "Raavan," Mani Ratnam's richly >> atmospheric adaptation of the Indian epic "The Ramayana." Though the film >> takes place in the present, Mr. Ratnam's forest remains an appropriately >> primeval place for mythic doings, full of fog and mists and rain and Beera's >> mud-painted followers (shades of "Apocalypse Now"). >> >> Raavan (Ravana in Sanskrit), as every Indian knows, is the demon in "The >> Ramayana" who kidnaps Sita, the wife of Rama: king, deity and model husband >> (as Sita is the model wife). Early on in Mr. Ratnam's film the question is >> asked: Is Beera (a gleefully hammy Abhishek Bachchan) Robin Hood or Raavan? >> He's both — and more a hero in this telling, set on his turf, than is the >> Rama character, a cop called Dev (Vikram), who matches Beera in brutality >> and cunning, but not in heart. >> >> "Raavan" has Bollywood glamour aplenty, with the lovely if occasionally >> dramatically challenged Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Mr. Bachchan's wife, playing >> the Sita stand-in. The real star, though, is Mr. Ratnam, a talented visual >> storyteller who directs action crisply and fills the screen with striking >> images. (One, of Ms. Bachchan's falling body landing gracefully on a tree >> branch, is so good he uses it three times.) >> >> *Artful but not arty, Mr. Ratnam, whose films include "Dil Se" and >> "Guru," delivers the goods: There are songs and dances (A. R. Rahman of >> "Slumdog Millionaire" fame did the excellent score), and an eye-popping >> climactic battle, between the bad-good Beera and the good-bad Dev, on a >> teetering suspension bridge. And that, folks, is entertainment.* >> >> *RAAVAN* >> >> Opens on Friday nationwide. >> >> Written and directed by Mani Ratnam; directors of photography, Santosh >> Sivan and V Manikandan; edited by Sreekar Prasad; music by A. R. Rahman; >> costumes by Sabyas Achi; produced by Mr. Ratnam and Sharada Trilok; released >> by Reliance Big Pictures. In Hindi, with English subtitles. Running time: 2 >> hours 18 minutes. This film is not rated. >> >> WITH: Abhishek Bachchan (Beera Munda), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Ragini >> Sharma), Vikram (Dev Pratap Sharma) and Govinda (Sanjeevani). >> Raa >> By RACHEL SALTZ >> Published: June 18, 2010 >> Source:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/movies/18raavan.html >> >> And some more Positive reports from losAngels times... >> >> Bollywood superstar Abishek Bachchan has the title role of the romantic >> adventure epic "Raavan," but the movie belongs to his exquisite real-life >> wife Aishwarya Rai. A blue-eyed beauty who resembles Myrna Loy, Rai's Ragini >> is the wife of Dev (Chiyaan Vikram), a virile police inspector assigned to >> bring down the wild-eyed Raavan, a bandit holed up with his men in a jungle >> fortress. Before Dev can plan his maneuvers, Raavan kidnaps Ragini. It takes >> a couple of hours to learn whether Beauty can tame Beast. >> >> Director Mani Ratnam and his colleagues give Bollywood fans full value. >> Ratnam's pace is steadfastly brisk, and his film is replete with dizzying >> camerawork, myriad complications, violent mayhem, broad humor, usual musical >> interludes, a cliffhanging climactic confrontation and a finish that strikes >> a note of poignancy. There's even a feminist undercurrent: Ragini, played >> with poise and fortitude by Rai, draws sympathy while Dev emerges as flawed >> as Raavan is crazed. "Raavan" is overlong and drawn out by Hollywood >> standards, but is of typical running time for Bollywood. In any event, its >> cast and crew are to be congratulated for their unflagging stamina and >> energy. >> >> Source : >> http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-capsules-20100618,0,1210817.story >> >> > > -- ----------------------------------- http://roshanravi.com http://ramblingsoul.com http://cssheaven.org
