Shooting of Ravana in trouble again

After the incident of an elephant killing one guy during the shoot in Kerala, Mani Ratnam is again in trouble with some other problems in completing his shooting of Ravana.

This time, in a village near Pune, the officials objected several activities against law by the Ravan team again. "These persons have been charged with illegally entering forest property and undertaking land levelling work to facilitate the film's shoot," said Deputy Conservator of Forests Subhash Shelke. Again it is an issue of dumping material and erecting sets without permission.
"The forest department had handed over some parts of the land to the irrigation department in 1992. As per the law, the land remains a reserved forest. The dam water is used for irrigation. Besides this, no other activity is allowed unless permission is obtained from the competent authority," Forest Officer Sadashiv Raut said.
He added: "Mani Ratnam had visited the village sometime back and had decided to shoot a part of the film here as the location had resemblance with the ancient setting he had in mind for the film."
Let’s wait and see how long this issue takes to resolve. Just as Rama faced so many obstacles in the forest, Mani Ratnam is also going through quite a bit through the making of his ‘Ravana’ which is inspired by Ramayana.
This ambitious project of Mani Ratnam has Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Vikram and Priyamani in lead roles. Music is by none other than maestro A R Rahman.

‘Raavan,’ inspired from Ramayan?

It is said that in ‘Ravana’, the character played by Abhishek is similar to that of Ravana in Ramayana, where he has kidnapped a married woman.

Rumors say that the story goes thus that the lady, played by Aishwarya, develops a soft corner for him.
Now, the biggest issue to be foreseen here is that once people associate Abhishek’s character with Ravana of the great epic Ramayana, which is for many a holy scripture, they will surely place Aishwarya as Sita. Ram Gopal Varma better beware of letting out scenes that give room to objections. It could hurt religious sentiments too. Let’s wait and hope for the best.