An awesome work by Manirathanam, audacious effort to depict an epic in a magnificent way .The exact lookup of the epic like the presence of transgenders in raavana's place, their habitat, food culture shows this is not just a movie its aslike research person's documentary.
The best part of this making is to screen an epic without moulding it for cinematic ideologies.Its great to see antique artistis like Karthik after a hiatus.
Hope santosh sivan's cinematography would rejuvenate tourism in athripillay and hogennakal. Impressive shots like the conversation of raagini and veera besides the vishnu idol, the shelters with continuous drizzles, the introductory summer dive off a cliff made me insane.The enormity of water makes us to feel chill.
Back home ARR with Manirathanam gave us a musical treat. The background score threatens us with thriller and love. The song which comes at Priyamani's marriage shows the real beats of ARR. Kalvare songs deserves a good round of applause for choreography shobhana has discharged her duty well.Vikram(Veera) fits best in his role, his silent heroism stuns the spectators.His body language, delivery and expressions are stunning.His expressive eyes give out varied feelings of angry, agony, lust, desperation and disappointment with amazing ease. Aishwarya Rai Bachan(Raagini) looks quite old but her eyes engulf us. Prithviraj(Dev) has flushed his utmost effort to show himself as a cop but he couldnot outsmart our surya this character be an apt role for him.riyamani(Vennila) in a brief appearance, is quite impressive. Her narration of the molestation in police station moves the audience. A potential flaw which bugged me is the orgination point of love between veera and raagini wasn't shown deeply may be its like he got impressed on her boldness.
Those who were ambivalent about the epical raavan's character may come to a conclusion. Manirathanam engraved a beautiful sculpture filming a history and posses all the attributes for the title as 'Silverscreen's Valmiki'...
Its a real visual feast for Cinema/Nature lovers.One among the must watch movie.
