Music Review of Raavan Hindi Movie

Veteran filmmaker, Mani Ratnam, written and directed the upcoming bilingual film Raavan (in Tamil version it is titled Raavanan) is all set to make its worldwide release on June 18, 2010. The movie has the magical combination of Mani Ratnam and A. R. Rahman since the success of 2007 Guru. They are highly expected to make the movie a big success.

The Hindi version of Raavan has Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and Vikram in the lead roles where the Tamil version has been simultaneously made with a slight different cast. Key supporting roles were performed by many stars like Govinda. It also has been dubbed in other regional languages including Telugu.

All the versions will be released on the same day in different parts of the city.

Fans are pleased to know that the music and soundtrack of the much anticipated film has been composed by Academy Award winner, A R Rahman. He has composed the music in both the versions. Fans are now expecting some good songs from A.R. Rehman.

The audio of Raavan was launched on 24 April 2010 by the music giant, T-Series, who bought the music right. It is also going to be the first project for Mani Ratnam with T-Series. T-Series has taken decision to promote it through every possible medium.

The teaser of the movie was uploaded in YouTube next day after the launch of audio. Fans can find a 40-seocnd video trailer of Raavan (Hindi) where it is seen that Abhishek Bachchan taking dive from the top of a cliff below river water while Aishwarya Rai emerged from water with a scary face. After that, Abhishek was seen riding a bike in a village path. In the end, he made funny comment.

Radio aired the songs from 23^rd April. On 24 April, the music was unveiled at an event and it also hit the stores worldwide on the very same day. A.R. Rehman inaugurated the audio launch festival and performed a song.

Sony Music bought the music rights of Tamil version. The Tamil and Telugu trailers of the film were supposed to be released close to the film’s music release. Now, the Tamil trailers are available on Internet.

Sampooran Singh Kalra, who is better known by his pen name Gulzar, has written few lyrics for Mani Ratnam’s latest film, Raavan. Because of his inspired work, Mani Ratnam sent him a note of thanks. Afterwards, he has given the director a new song for Mani Ratnam’s humility.

Mani Ratnam congratulated Gulzar and said he is very proud for the music. Gulzar said that he has never received such a heartwarming endorsement of his 47-years of career. It was the first thank you letter that drove Gulzar to accept the invitation from Ratnam to attend a screening of the film. He flew to Chennai to see the closing credits and felt that AR Rahman's song was too good to be released without lyrics. He and Mani were speechless. At that time, the extra song came about. What he wrote as an additional number for Raavan, Ab iss shareer ke sirey khol dey/Aur goongi aatma ko bol dey.

Raavan will feature 6 songs and an additional song that Rahman performed at the audio launch. Now, I am giving short description of every song.

Title: "Beera Beera".

Singer: Kirti Sagathia, Vijay Prakash.

Lyricist: Gulzar.

Music Director: A. R. Rahman

Duration: 3:15 minute

Description: It is the first song of the film Raavan. ‘Beera Beera’ will introduce the character played by Abhishek Bachchan in Raavan. Kirti Sagathia and Vijay Prakash make the song most attractive to the listeners. Rahman brings African music in this song. The music should catch the attention of the people. A. R. Rahman should get all the credit for his composition in this song.

Title: "Behene De"

Singer: Karthik

Lyricist: Gulzar

Music Director: A. R. Rahman

Duration: 6:04

Description: It is the second song of the film that is totally different from the previous one. Rahman uses soft melody for this song. Karthik has shown his performance for the song. If you are fan of solo singer then you will like it.

Title: "Thok De Killi".

Singer: Sukhwinder Singh, Am'Nico.

Lyricist: Gulzar.

Music Director: A. R. Rahman

Duration: 4:58.

Description: ‘Thok De Killi’ will be liked by those who are fond of rock music. Music director, Rahman, used lots of modern instrument in this song. The use of guitar should be like by the young generation. The UK based Indian singer, Am'Nico, also surprised the audience hearing his voice. He has been discovered by Rahman.

Title: "Ranjha Ranjha".

Singer: Rekha Bhardwaj, Javed Ali, Anuradha Sriram

Lyricist: Gulzar.

Music Director: A. R. Rahman.

Duration: 5:54.

Description: It is supposed to be one of the best songs in 2010. Even it can topple the popularity of other songs like ‘Thok De Killi’. It was a well performed song by the trio of Rekha Bhardwaj, Javed Ali and Anuradha Sriram. It is also expected that the song will reach the top of the charts within a fortnight of the release.

Title: "Khilli Re".

Singer: Reena Bhardwaj.

Lyricist: Gulzar.

Music Director: A. R. Rahman.

Duration: 4:11.

Description: Reena Bhardwaj is well known for her sweet voice. With her sweet voice she has sung the song “Khilli Re” that portrayed Aishwarya Rai. When you heard the song, it may seem to you that Ragini sharma is calling her husband. This poetic track belongs to Rahman's background. You can hear the song when you feel sad or depress. The song will help you to get relive from sadness and feel happy.

Title: "Kata Kata".

Singer: Ila Arun, Sapna Awasthi, Kunal Ganjawala.

Lyrics: Gulzar.

Music Director: A. R. Rahman.

Duration: 5:11.

Description: It is the last song of the film. “Kata Kata” is a funny song. It was sung to mock the bachelors who are going to end their bachelor life. Even you can play the song in any marriage function. The song is about a man getting married and a bunch of friends teasing him on his last night of bachelorhood. This funny song was performed by Ila Arun, Sapna Awasthi, Kunal Ganjawala together. It is thought that this song will also make its place in the top chart.

I hope that it will break all the previous record.

Mani Ratnam’s Trilingual Film Raavan will be released worldwide on 18th June 2010

The much awaited film of the year, Raavan, is knocking at the door. Fans around the world have already started counting down the time when it will be released.

Mani Ratnam’s Raavan is a tri-lingual film as it has been simultaneously made in Tamil as Raavanan and at the same time, it would also be dubbed in Telugu as Villain.

Madras Talkies and BIG Cinemas have got the distribution right of the Hindi version. On the other hand, Reliance Big Pictures will distribute the Tamil version. Though it has been made in three different languages, it is slated to be released on June 18, 2010.

There is no big difference between the versions except the casts. In Raavan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and Vikram plays the lead roles while Govinda, Ravi Kishan, Nikhil Dwivedi, Tejaswini Kolhapure and Priyamani plays the key supporting roles.

Abhishek Bachchan plays the role of Beera who can be compared with Raavan, the demon King of Lanka. Aishwarya Rai plays the role of Ragini, whose character is as similar as Seeta of Ramayana. Vikram plays the character of police officer Dev, whose character can be compared with Shree Ram.

In Tamil version, Vikram plays the role of Veera. Aishwarya Rai will be seen doing the same character what she does in Hindi version. However, Prithviraj Sukumaran replaces Vikram for the role of police officer Dev.

Academy Award winner, AR Rahman, composed the music and the soundtrack in both versions. Audio of the film was launched on 24 April 2010 by T-Series.

It is the most ambitious project for filmmaker and writer, Mani Ratnam. He has got the credit for the screen play. He asks the question in his directorial note-

Ten heads, Ten minds, A hundred voices- One Man. Did such a man ever exist…? Was he just a myth…or a metaphor…?

Are Ten Heads better than one…?

Perhaps it is going to be the big hit after the success of Guru that stars star couple Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai. It will hit 2000 screens worldwide.

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Raavan Hindi movie everything you need to know

The upcoming Hindi film Raavan has become the much anticipated film of this year. It cats leading Bollywood stars including Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and Vikram in the lead roles. However, supporting roles were performed by Govinda, Ravi Kishan, Nikhil Dwivedi, Tejaswini Kolhapure and Priyamani.

Raavan tells the story of a conflict between good and evil, between Dev and Beera, between Ram and Raavan.

Cast and Crew:

Abhishek Bachchan- Beera Munda (Raavan)

Aishwarya Rai- Ragini sharma (Seeta)

Vikram Kennedy- Dev Pratap Sharma (shreeRam)

Govinda- Sanjeevani Kumar (Hanumaan)

Ravi Kishan- Siddrath

Priyamani- Serena Munda

Nikhil Dwivedi- laxmana pratap sharma brother

Ashish Vidyarthi

In the Tamil version, only few characters have been changed. The role of Raavan was played by Vikram. Prithviraj plays the character of Dev Prasad.

Music:

Academy Award winner, A. R. Rahman, is the main attraction of the film as the music score and soundtrack of the film has been composed by him. Gulzar has written the lyrics. The Hindi version of Raavan has featured 6 songs and an additional song that A. R. Rahman performed at the audio launch. T-Series has released the audio on April 24, 2010.

Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce (KFCC) restricted Raavan to release in Mysore:

Big Cinemas has got the distribution right for the Hindi version of Raavan film. As per rules, this company will distribute the film as many as possible. They demanded the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce (KFCC) to allow the film to be released at 48 theatres. Due to the existing policy of allowing non-Kannada films, it has been restricted by KFCC and will be released in only 24 theatres in one of the three distribution areas of Karnataka.

Mr. Vasant Kumar Patil is the President of KFCC. To protect the interest of local Kannada films, he has refused to accept the request from the Big Cinemas. He said,

"A decision has been taken to follow the existing policy of allowing non-Kannada films in a stipulated number of theatres,"

Old Mysore is located in the southern part of the state where the decision will be applied. Except it, the decision will not be imposed on the other distribution areas.

Big Cinemas is not happy with such kind of restriction as they thought that it will be released in more than 48 theatres as Raavan and its Tamil version have been made at a huge cost with different artists in the lead role.

However, KFCC has nothing to do except allowing the flick to be released in Mysore region only across twenty-four region theatres on June 18.

Raavan is a bilingual film as it has been made in two different languages of Hindi and Tamil. Now, these two versions are supposed to be released at the same time on June 18, 2010.

Abhishek Bachchan has got new hairstyle for Raavan:

Abhishek Bachchan’s new look was revealed in his upcoming movie Raavan. He was given new hairstyle for the character before start shooting the film at Kerala locations. There wasn’t any stylist but director, Mani Ratnam, himself who has given him this hairstyle. His hairstyle was named as ‘Beera’ as his character name in this film was Beera Munda.

This hairstyle has come as a result of a long-stand promise that Abhishek Bachchan gave Mani Ratnam during the shooting of Yuva.

Mani Ratnam wanted Abhishek Bachchan to cut his hair for a short crop for his character Lallan Singh in Yuva, but he has not agreed to cut his hair thinking about how it would look on his face and at the same time, he was worried whether his new hairstyle would affect the other project he was working on.

He kept his own hairstyle with a promise that one day he will allow Mani to cut his hair. The day came during the shooting of Raavan. Before start filming at the set of Kerala on the first day Raavan, Mani Ratnam cropped his hair.

He spends a lot of time dealing the look for his characters. He also had to decrease weight for Raavan.

Rensil D'Silva is not the writer of Raavan:

Famous script writer, Rensil D'Silva, is perhaps not happy as he has not got the writing credit for Raavan film. All the credit goes to director, Mani Ratnam, and his wife, Suhasini. His name has been deleted from the credits of Raavan.

Rensil was busy with Kurbaan, which was his first directorial film. However, it was neither hit nor flop. Kurbaan did not do well, but at the same time, it was not worse in showbiz.

Rensil D'Silva was the toast of tinsel town because of his two different roles. He was directing his debut film Kurbaan for Karan Johar. At the same time, he was busy in scripting Mani Ratnam's Raavan.

His credit in the industry has reduced because of the failure of Kurbaan in the box office. Veteran director, Mani Ratnam, and his wife, Suhasini, has been credit for the screenplay, completely eradicating Rensil's contribution to the writing.

Though he wrote the script ‘at one time’, he halfheartedly said that no one took his credit away. He had to stop writing Raavan and start shooting Kurbaan. He also admitted that final screenplay was written by Mani himself.

When it told that screenplay is credited to Mani Ratnam and his wife Suhasini, Rensil D'Silva did not disagree and said that they wrote the scrip together.

However, director and writer of this film, Mani Ratnam, remained unavailable for comment.

Rensil D'Silva was given credit for writing Rang De Basanti. According to a source familiar with both Mani and Rensil D'Silva's work said, "Rang De Basanti was taken away from writer Kamlesh Pandey and given to Rensil D'Silva. So, what happened with Raavan is poetic justice."

It is not clear whether Rensil is involved in the writing of Raavan. Will Rensil take legal action for getting his writing credit?

Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai in a hasty relationship in Raavan:

The upcoming Hindi film, Raavan, has brought together the most successful star couple, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai. They have been cast in the lead roles for the Hindi version Raavan.

Their off-screen love has never questioned. Even their on-screen love relationship is always praiseworthy. Now, fans are eagerly waiting to see their chemistry in Raavan, even if they aren’t couple in the movie.

No doubt, Raavan is an important project for Abhishek as it will turn out to be a “career defining” film for him. It could be another milestone like his previous film Guru.

Fans are accustomed to see them acting as a couple. But now, for the first time, in this film of Raavan, they will be shown in an impetuous love. Let’s see if it can attract the fans.

Abhishek was mind blowing. He plays the role of cruel, shrewd Raavan while Aishwarya acts as Sita whom he abducts and takes to jungle.

It will be interesting to see the real life couple to perform the different character where they were not portrait as couple.

Aishwarya Rai’s motherly instinct has come out in Raavan shooting:

Bollywood beauty, Aishwarya Rai, has shown her motherly instinct with a little incident during the shooting of her upcoming flick, Raavan.

Her motherly behavior has come out during the shooting for a scene in Mani Ratnam’s Raavan.

In the shooting spot, she saw a child artist got drenched from head to toe and that small girl was constantly shivering from cold. She immediately managed a thick blanket to wrap up the child to provide much needed warmth.

Her maternal behavior surprised all the entire cast and crew of this film. The little girl appreciated the generosity with a silent smile. Aishwarya Rai can please her fans showing benevolence attitude.

Raavan was unveiled in Cannes:

Raavan was unveiled at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival. Both the Hindi and Tamil versions will open in 58 countries. Mani Ratnam’s wife Suhasini, attended at the press conference of Raavan in Cannes and represented her husband. She was credited for script writer. She said that the film will help us to understand the grey parts that all of us have in us.

She thanked A.R. Rahman for his beautiful music. She also said that the music merged beautifully with the music. In fact, the music emphasized pictures.

Indian filmmaker, Mani Ratnam, will be honored with Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award at the 67th Venice Film Festival. The festival will start on September 1 and it will continue till September 11, 2010.

Marco Muller, Director of Venice Film Festival, gave the most important announcement before the launch of Mani’s ambitious project ‘Raavan.’ Muller has confirmed the media about the impending honor that will be bestowed upon the filmmaker later this year.

Aishwarya Rai’s motherly behavior has come out in shooting of Raavan movie

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is known as a beautiful actress but hardly anyone knows her motherly instinct that she kept hide until the shooting for director Mani Ratnam’s Raavan which will be released on June 18, 2010.

Her motherly instinct revealed with an incident where she tried to save a child from catching cold during the shooting for a scene in her upcoming movie.

In the shooting spot, she found a small girl, who is part of the cast, got drenched from head to toe and was constantly trembling. When her eyes spotted her trembling body, she immediately arranged a thick blanket to wrap up the child so that she can get much needed warmth.

Her benevolence touched the heart of this little girl. She appreciated her generosity with a silent smile. It surprised the entire cast and crew of the Raavan film showing her motherly instinct.

No doubt, it will give her best ‘daughter-in-law’ tag. She said, “She is gorgeous and definitely all DIL (daughter in laws) should learn from her, how she carries herself and interaction with in-laws, truly worth learning.”

It is hoped to all her fans that other people should learn a lesson from Aishwarya and try to follow it in their own life.

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