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Shooting Raavanan was challenging - Mani Ratnam
Unveiling a sneak peek of his
upcoming movie Raavan at the 63rd Cannes Film
Festival, director Mani Ratnam said that filming
both the Tamil and Hindi versions of the movie
simultaneously was the biggest challenge in his
career. The filmmaker was present here along
with the starcast of the film, which includes
Vikram, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, to
screen the trailer of the bilingual film. “We
shot both versions simultaneously, something I
have never done before. This part was my
career’s most challenging, most difficult and
most stimulating. It was also physically
exhausting,” said Ratnam. It was taxing for
Aishwarya as well, who plays a modern day Sita
in the movie and shares screen space with her
actor husband in the Hindi version.
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“Apart from the intricacies of essaying the Hindi and
Tamil heroine all at the same time, the inhospitable
jungle terrain where we shot posed its own hazards,” he
said. Actor Vikram, who acted alongside Aishwarya in
both versions, has dubbed his own lines in Hindi as well
as Tamil. “If Aishwarya could have dubbed for the Tamil
edition, why not I for Hindi,” he told news agencies.
Ratnam’s wife Suhasini, Raavan’s co-producer and
dialogue writer for the Tamil edition said that the film
would help “us understand the grey parts that all of us
have in us. None of us is completely white or black“.
Praising Oscar-winning composer A R Rahman’s music in
the film, she said, “It merges beautifully with the
story. In fact, the music accentuates the picture. The
songs have a great role to play. They take the plot
forward.”
