However, his look in the Tamil version called ‘Raavanan’ is entirely different and induces fear. The strange thing about the whole exercise is that Vikram, who plays two different roles in the Tamil and Hindi versions of the film, shot for them simultaneously at the same venues.
Of course, the talented actor worked extra hard for it and after shooting for the Hindi version would rehearse his lines and act for the Tamil version during nights to get it perfect. As Mani Ratnam is famous for being a hard task master, nothing short of perfection would have worked with him.
Abhishek Bachchan had also been offered to play the role of Dev (which Vikram plays in Hindi) in the Tamil version of ‘Raavan’ by director Mani Ratnam, but the handsome actor was not confident of enacting the role properly and hence refused the offer.
In fact, Abhishek Bachchan told Mani Rathnam that he found emoting in Hindi easier than in Tamil or any other language in which he was not comfortable. However, Aishwarya Rai, his real life wife, did not have any such problem and hence plays the character of Sita in both Tamil and Hindi versions of the film.
