Is Raavan getting delayed?

According to sources Southside, things are apparently not going as planned on Mani Ratnam's Raavan.

Apparently, the legendary director wants to re-shoot some parts of his film.

These sources claim Mani doesn't like Abhishek Bachchan's [ Images ] work in certain scenes, where the actor -- who plays the title character of Raavan -- has been overshadowed by Madhavan, who plays Ram.

Madhavan has apparently done such a fine job that Mani wants to re-shoot some scenes so that his hero can hold his own.

The film, which also stars Aishwarya Rai [ Images ] Bachchan, will also have a song choreographed, we hear, by the renowned dancer, Astad Deboo.

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Ravan – first images

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Vikram – Ravan look – images

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Santosh Sivan’s plans post Raavan

Santosh Sivan is planning to make a film on the plight of Sri Lankan Tamils. The cinematographer-director said that he has named the film Ceylon. Elaborating further on the subject, Sivan said that his film will not deal with Prabhakaran or the Sri Lankan government angle but will concentrate on the Sri Lankan Tamils living as refugees in their own homeland.
Santosh said that he intends to rope in new faces who can speak the Sri Lankan dialect to star in the film. The director added that Ceylon would commence soon after her completes Mani Rathnam’s Raavan, for which he wielding the camera.

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Mani Ratnam shoots in Ooty!

47 days after getting a heart attack and being hospitalized, Mani Ratnam is up and shooting for his magnum opus Raavan in Ooty.

Mani sir in fact spent his birthday (June 2) quietly in the cool climes of Ooty, doing what he likes best, directing a film!

A new schedule of the film has started from June 1, in and around the hill stations and surrounding forest areas. Mani has a doctor on call at the location, and everybody is careful that the ace director does not exert himself unnecessarily.

On the first day, he shot the Tamil version with Karthik and others. Vikram, Aishwarya Rai, Prithviraj are expected to join the unit in the next few days. Santosh Sivan, who replaced Manikandan as the cameraman will be givingRaavan a new look. Mani and Santosh are one of the finest director- cameraman team who has made Ooty popular among film makers and the audiences.

Their romance with Ooty started with that spectacular dream song inDalapathy featuring Rajinikanth dressed as a Samurai warrior and singing out to his lady love Shobhana- Sundari Kannal …, in the voice of SPB and S.Janaki to the mesmerizing music of Ilayaraja.

Those days there was no DI (Digital Imaging) , still Santosh and Mani gave Ooty an orange hue and it looked like it was shot in a European country.

The soft romance between Mohanlal and Aishwarya Rai in Iruvar was also filmed in Ooty. Who can forget the duo’s greatest song, Chaiya, Chaiya…, tuned by the master A.R Rahman picturised atop a running train on Shahrukh Khan and Malaika Arora?

The song was superbly choreographed by Farah Khan, and many feel it was a great tribute to Nilgiri’s mountain rail, and easily one of the best song picturisation in Indian commercial cinema.

Now the master and his favourite cameraman are back in Ooty to give it a all new look.

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