There might be Beera hogging the limelight with his cranky behaviour and outlandish expressions, and then there might be the cool-andsuave Dev but Ragini brings the much-needed grace to the proceedings on screen. Aishwarya Rai, widely described as India’s most beautiful woman, got to play Ragini not once, but twice, in Mani Ratnam’s double bonanza!
FROM IRUVAR TO RAAVANAN
One of the reasons that I came into cinema was because of Mani Ratnam. And when I got an opportunity to act in his film for my debut, I grabbed it. I still remember the first Tamil word I uttered on screen — Pesanum.... I guess I haven’t stopped talking since then!
THE MANI MAGIC
People around the world love his cinema and style of filmmaking. As actors and creative people, we cherish the opportunities of working with such a great filmmaker. I used to call him Mani sir when I started but by the time we did Guru, he told me to call him just Mani.
CAMARADERIE WITH VIKRAM
Abhishekh always calls Vikram Kenny sir. I used to call him Vikram before but now I too sometimes call him Kenny sir. But it’s not just that; we (Abhi and I) also call him Chiyaan, Aarumugham, Veera, Dev and a lot of other things.
ENDHIRAN V/S RAAVANAN
There’s absolutely no comparison between the two films. They are distinctly different products. But, the more I worked with Mani, the more confident I became about Endhiran. In the initial schedules for the Rajini-starrer, I used to insist that they give me my dialogues a day before so that I get time to practise them. But, once I put some work into Raavanan, things became a lot easier in the Endhiran unit. I became confident of pulling off my Tamil lines in Endhiran with ease. The nervousness about saying Tamil lines is almost gone... and now, it’s the time to swim!
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