Raavanan

Raavan or Raavanan? It's close, but the winner for me is Raavanan, which was perhaps made "only" as an extended version to celebrate Vikram's acting. While in Raavan he was the pursued, in Raavanan he is the pursuer, which is a perfect twist. The story benefits greatly from the minimum of flashy actors like Abhishek and Govinda from the Hindi version, though Govinda has many faces. Aishwarya is currently in the golden age of her acting and I welcome the fact that she has followed up her three early films in Kollywood in this way. Kollywood has matured fantastically, and it is no longer necessary for it to be refreshing solely with music videos from around the world because it is now possible to take a modern and bold approach to an entire film. In short, India has adopted another outstanding feature of inter-war cinema. After the kaleidoscopic eye, these are multilingual versions shot at once with different casts. We need more of this. (17.01.2011)