Legend has it that Ravana wasn’t all black, but a man who was thwarted, envious, covetous, just very human in so many ways. After all, if someone chopped off your beloved sister’s nose (remember the Surpanakha story?), wouldn’t you want revenge? There are many characters like this in Bollywood movies – very normal men with a dark streak that is displayed in unfortunate albeit very commercially popular ways. Who can play the Ravana of today with that ‘real’ touch, that conviction that comes from the courage of having acting talent, that honesty of being absorbed into the onscreen ambience? Here are some of our favourite candidates for the role of the ten-headed bad guy, metaphorically speaking, of course!
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