Our birdies have excitedly brought in this juicy news, from the confines of Mani Ratnam’s hot project ‘Raavan’. What’s it? Read on…

Birdies seem to have probed into the matters concerning Abhishek Bachchan’s character in the film. And while there are many stories revolving around the role, what our birdies found is quite surprising… They say that Abhishek’s character is not only based on Ramayana’s Raavana but also inspired from real life personality, the Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy! In fact Ghandy has been the real inspiration, more than the mythological character. Birdies heard it that actually the story of the Ramayana is very nicely and intelligently woven into the story of Kobad Ghandy.

Birdies got it from sources that, in ‘Raavan’ Abhishek play Veera, a naxalite leader of the downtrodden villagers in eastern Madhya Pradesh. Just like Ghandy’s Communist party India-Maoist is banned, Abhishek’s organisation is also banned in the film. The major difference between the two characters is that while Ghandy is an educated man, Abhishek’s character is from a small and remote village from Eastern MP.

A fact known, Mani Ratnam loves having a strong element of contemporary history in his films. Earlier in his films, Mani reflected Vardha Rajan’s life in ‘Nayakan’ and Dhirubhai Ambani’s life in ‘Guru’. Similarly the filmmaker tried to blend real serious issues in films like ‘Roja’, ‘Dil Se’ and ‘Yuva’.

And we are sure; this time the director will be successful in etching out Raavana’s image as well…