Tragedy strikes on the sets of ‘Raavana’

Looks like Mani Ratnam has been perpetually prone to misfortunate, ever since he ventured into the filming of his bilingual flick “Raavan’. Right from Day 1, the ace filmmaker has been exposed to obstructions. Earlier, he was supposed to sign a deal of Rs.150 Crores with a top-notch production house but they later backed off. Also, Forest Department of Kerala imposed many restrictions that dissuaded Mani Ratnam, and he opted for other location.
Amidst these issues, his health was affected, and he suffered cardiac arrest, which in turn stalled the filming for nearly a month. However, as he withstood against all these odd factors, an appalling tragedy hit their shooting floors, last evening in the forests of Athirapally, Kerala. Kunju– A male elephant out of madness turned to be more ferocious killing its own trainer on the spots.
The entire film crew inclusive of Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan, Vikram and others were blown out of waters witnessing this incident. They were immediately commuted to furthermore deeper regions of forest, until other trainers calmed it down.
Witnessing the nightmarish scenario, Mani Rathnam has shifted the shooting to forest regions of Ooty and Coonoo

Priyamani completes her portion in Raavan

National award-winning actress Priyamani has successfully completed her part in Mani Ratnam’s Raavan and its being said, the noted director is very happy with her performance.
Undoubtedly, the actress is very excited with this much-talked about film, as she expresses that she was initially very scared and had lots of apprehensions about her role. But she added that the ace director was very cool and gave her many opportunities to improvise.
The beautiful actress is banking on this flick and hopes that the movie proves to be a turning point in her career. Meanwhile, her kitty is full with number of projects in Telugu and Tamil and the actress hopes to complete most of them by end of this year.