Aishwarya Rai, the stunningly gorgeous Bachchan bahu who plays the character of Ragini in Mani Ratnam’s upcoming flick ‘Raavan’ has Vikram playing the part of her husband ‘Dev’, who is poetic, philosophical and fun loving, the exact opposite of the character of Beera (played by Abhishek Bachchan) witch is tough, rugged and brutal.
Even the look of Vikram in the Hindi version will be different from the traditional bollywood heroes, and this is the reason it is being kept under wraps, while Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai’s images in ‘Raavan’ are being aggressively publicized. Sources close to production house say that Vikram wears a short cut hair and a moustache for the role.
However, his look in the Tamil version called ‘Raavanan’ is entirely different and induces fear. The strange thing about the whole exercise is that Vikram, who plays two different roles in the Tamil and Hindi versions of the film, shot for them simultaneously at the same venues.
Of course, the talented actor worked extra hard for it and after shooting for the Hindi version would rehearse his lines and act for the Tamil version during nights to get it perfect. As Mani Ratnam is famous for being a hard task master, nothing short of perfection would have worked with him.
Abhishek Bachchan had also been offered to play the role of Dev (which Vikram plays in Hindi) in the Tamil version of ‘Raavan’ by director Mani Ratnam, but the handsome actor was not confident of enacting the role properly and hence refused the offer.
In fact, Abhishek Bachchan told Mani Rathnam that he found emoting in Hindi easier than in Tamil or any other language in which he was not comfortable. However, Aishwarya Rai, his real life wife, did not have any such problem and hence plays the character of Sita in both Tamil and Hindi versions of the film.
