Amitabh unhappy with ÂRaavanÂ
- IndiaGlitz, [Monday,June 21 2010]
Even as the much-hyped ÂRaavanÂ, starring his son Abhishek Bachchan in the lead, opened to mixed reviews, Amitabh Bachchan has expressed unhappiness over the filmÂs editing, which, according to him, ruined AbhishekÂs performance.
ÂIt's ÂsadÂ, in the edit you only see the after-effect of that thinking process, hence inconsistent. In the edit, all the visual heads got cut and you see a confused ÂBeera expression and wonder why? Amitabh wrote on a microblogging site.
ÂLot of the merited film edited out, causing inconsistent performance and narrative. Abhishek's erratic behaviour was due to symbolic 10 heads visually appearing and each giving him different attitudes to adopt for a situation, he would then finally shake them off and decide, he said.
And when he appeared online for the second time during the day, Amitabh accused the media of misinterpreting his statement as an affront to the filmÂs director Mani Ratnam. ÂThere has and shall always be respect and dignity for him media playing with words. Mani is one of our finest directors... he should never stop making films.Â
Meanwhile, protagonist of the movieÂs Tamil version ÂRaavanan Vikram and cinematographer for both the versions Santosh Sivan came to the defence of Mani Ratnam. While Santosh Sivan said the director's prerogative cannot be questioned by anyone, Vikram said the audience was the ultimate judge.