Cast and Crew
Language: Malayalam
Genre: Action | Drama | Romance
Banner: Aashirvad Cinemas
Director: Ranjith
Producer: Antony Perumbavoor
Story, Screenplay, Dialogue: Ranjith
Cinematography: P. Sukumar
Art director: Boban
Editor: Ranjan Abraham
Lyrics: Gireesh Puthenchery
Music: Suresh Peters
Release: 31 August 2001
Certification: U
Cast: Mohanlal, Vasundhara Das, Napolean, Siddique, Vijayaraghavan, Saikumar, N.F. Varghese, Innocent, Manoj K. Jayan, Rajasree Nair, Augustine, V.K. Sriraman, Revathy, Jagathi Sreekumar, Jagadheesh, Ratheesh, Madhupal, T.P. Madhavan, Irshad, Ramu, Nadisha, Sukumari, Manju Pillai, Nalini
The character Mangalassery Neelakandan- the lovable feudal rascal, of the film Devasuram is one of the most imitated characters in the Malayalam silver screen. Now the legacy of Mangalassery Neelakandan continues - through Mangalassery Neelakandan's son Mangalassery Karthikeyan in Ravanaprabhu.
Ravanaprabhu tells the story of the legacy of Neelakandan through Karthikeyan and how the rivalry between Neelakandan and his archrival Mundakkal Sekharan passes on to the next generation.
Devasuram was a classic crowd puller and Ravanaprabhu is an entertaining crowd pleaser. The feudal touch is lost as generation changes. Neelakandan was a feudal lord but his son Karthikeyan is presented as superhero.
Ravanaprabhu is Mohanlal, Mohanlal and Mohanlal. Mohanlal one of the best artists in India portrays two generations in Ravanaprabhu - a mellowed Mangalassery Neelakandan and firebrand Mangalassery Karthikeyan. As far as satisfaction of an artist is concerned, the character of Mangalassery Neelakandan must have provided him just that. He had once again done full justice to a character that was immortalised by him years ago. As far as the fans go, Karthikeyan is tailor made for them. With electrifying screen presence and mannerisms Mohanlal once again proves that he is the ultimate crowd pleaser.
Other characters in the films are, Neelakandan's old sidekicks- Warrier (Innocent), Kurupu (Sree Raman), Hydrose (Augustine), and Neelakandan's archrival Mundakkal Sekharan (Napoleon) - all from the Devasuram clan. As for new additions- Karthikeyan has got Shakthi Vel Kowndar (Jagathy Sreekumar), Kowndar's loyalist (Jagadheesh), Unni (Sai Kumar) and Shivadas (Manoj.K.Jayan) and Mundakkal Rajeendran (Vijayaraghavan), Purushothaman (Ratheesh), SP Sreenivasan (Siddique) are his new rivals. Unlike Devasuram, the individual moments for the characters played by these actors are less except for Innocent who reminds us once again how lovable Warrier was, and Siddique who plays the jealous fiance of the heroine.
About the women in the film, Revathi as Banumathi excels in her short yet powerful presence. Vasundhara Das as Janaki, daughter of Mundakkal Sekharan has nothing much to do except to look good.
Ranjith as a director is promising, but his real strength is in the screenplay that he writes keeping the public pulse in mind. Full marks for him for keeping the classic touch of Neelakandan intact.
The second act of the feudal lord's story may not be a classic(except for Neelakandan and Banumathi) as it's first act. But, then again Ravana is considered a classic character by a very few. Ravanaprabhu is a entertaining crowd puller, nothing less and nothing more.
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