Raavan
2010, NR, 130 min.
Directed by Mani Ratnam, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Vikram, Govinda, Prithviraj.

Not reviewed at press time. In this Bollywood film, a gang leader kidnaps the wife of a policeman who killed his sister, but then he falls in love with her. The story is a loose variation on the Indian epic Ramayana.

This article appears in June 18 • 2010.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.