A bandit leader kidnaps the wife of the policeman who killed his sister, but later falls in love with her.
Cinematography
Santosh Sivan's wet, green fever dream of a forest
Direction
Mani Ratnam frames every shot like classical Indian painting
Score
A.R. Rahman's 'Beera' theme will haunt your playlists
Director
Mani Ratnam
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ratnam originally shot two versions simultaneously — this Hindi cut and a Tamil 'Raavanan' with Vikram as the bandit, flipping the moral polarity entirely.
The ten-head motif manifests practically: Beera's ten village strongholds, his ten loyal men, and the ten ways Ratnam visually suggests his fractured psyche.
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