Amitabh unhappy with ‘Raavan’

Even as the much-hyped ‘Raavan’, starring his son Abhishek Bachchan in the lead, opened to mixed reviews, Amitabh Bachchan has expressed unhappiness over the film’s editing, which, according to him, ruined Abhishek’s performance.

“It's “sad”, in the edit you only see the after-effect of that thinking process, hence inconsistent. In the edit, all the visual heads got cut and you see a confused ‘Beera’ expression and wonder why?” Amitabh wrote on a microblogging site.

“Lot of the merited film edited out, causing inconsistent performance and narrative. Abhishek's erratic behaviour was due to symbolic 10 heads visually appearing and each giving him different attitudes to adopt for a situation, he would then finally shake them off and decide,” he said.

And when he appeared online for the second time during the day, Amitabh accused the media of misinterpreting his statement as an affront to the film’s director Mani Ratnam. “There has and shall always be respect and dignity for him… media playing with words. Mani is one of our finest directors... he should never stop making films.”

Meanwhile, protagonist of the movie’s Tamil version ‘Raavanan’ Vikram and cinematographer for both the versions Santosh Sivan came to the defence of Mani Ratnam. While Santosh Sivan said the director's prerogative cannot be questioned by anyone, Vikram said the audience was the ultimate judge