MY comment on Ravanan (tamil)
As I only know the basic about the Ramayan I won´t compare it to Ravanan
I watched Ravanan in Munich /Germany . Me and my friends the only Non-tamil viewers. Sadly there were no subtitles. And there were some problem showing the movie . We had 3 times a different begin (-_^)
As already seen from the trailers Vikram´s peformance is mesmerising. With first scene of Veera standing in cave´s entry moving in the wind (I know it is not the first scene, but it was shown as first scene to us, then 2 others starts followed), what you could expect from him. You believed all his feelings and cared most for him, than for all the other 2 main characters.
Ash on the other hand has nothing to do than showing 2 faces, eyes open wide and screaming. That´s all. . Only beauty shots of her. Perfect hair, perfect polished nails (she has only 1 time dirty nails, climbing the well) and the clothes so undestroyable. Seems she lived in Disneyland and not in the jungle. Many other actress could have done that.
See how Priyamani did a brilliant performance in her short role compared to Ash.
Wished her role was bigger.
Prithviraj as Dev tried his best but the roles wasn´t that convincing. There wasn´t much feelings between him and his wife.
Karthik and Prabhu did a good job, cant say about the dialogues as I hardly understood any word.
Telling a story slowly could work but how many nature shots and beauty shot of Ash to you need?
Some scenes looked like a L´Oreal advertising. I could only connect to Veera, Vennila and his brothers then for Raagini and Dev. Also the ending , would luv a more drastic ending . The bridge scene would have been a good option.
My friends and my comment at the end: Lets throw her off the bridge and go home
(Original comment by Abhi to Vikram as Vikram mentioned it in the interview)

I also watched Raavan partly , it seems that both are little bit different cut.