Did I say evil role? HindustanTimes says that Mani Ratnam is going to do his new project based on the Ramayana! Mani Ratnam's next project will be an adaption of the Ramayan featuring Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as modern-day Ram and Sita. The role that has been offered to Govinda is that of a modern-day human avatar of Hanuman. Vikram will be playing Ravan's part and in the Tamil version he takes Abhisheks role.

The Ramayana is a well-known Indian epic and tells about prince Rama and his wife Sita who is taken away by a demon king. After Rama has married Sita the new king of his father's empire is to be crowned but there are several sons, with Rama being the eldest. His stepmother, however, wanted to see her son Bharata, Rama's younger brother, become king. Remembering that the king had once promised to grant her any two wishes she desired, she demanded that Rama be banished and Bharata be crowned. The king had to keep his word to his wife and ordered Rama's banishment. When Bharata learned what his mother had done, he sought Rama in the forest. Rama refused to go against his father's command. Later in the story, Ravana, the evil King of Lanka, abducted Sita.

Hanuman, in this whole story, is of course a leader of the monkey who helps Rama to save Sita. Having a godly decent Hanuman owns magical powers and has been very popular with the people.

We are going to see how Mani is taking it into modern society! This would not be Mani Ratnam's first film based on an epic, earlier he made the Tamil movie Thalapathi with Rajnikanth and Mammooty in the leads, loosely based on the Mahabharata.

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