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#RaavanKiRamayan #EpicTheatreReview #TheatreCriticJohnsonThomas Rating: * * * 1/2

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#RaavanKiRamayan #EpicTheatreReview #TheatreCriticJohnsonThomas Rating: * * * 1/2 Coconut Theatre Takes the lead in presenting The Films and Theatre Society's relaunch of it's epic play “Raavan Ki Ramayan” in Mumbai on 5th may 2018. Director Atul Satya Koushik who has also written the script, delineates Raavan's viewpoint regarding the Ramayana.The Director who has always managed to get celebrities from films and TV to act in his plays manages to scoop out once famous cinema villain Punnet Issar from the obscurity of TV, to star in the titular role as the agonised and deeply pained Raavan who believes he has been wronged by Shiva, to whom he has been the most ardent devotee. The production may not have the lush majesty of the super successful #MughalEAzam but the emotive en-treatment cannot be denied. Raavan who most of us saw as the villain of the Ramayana, is the protagonist here.The play is his version of events that transpired and looks at why his