“To know more about Ram, you must know about Raavan.”
You narrow your eyes to get a clearer glimpse of the stage just to find out Ashutosh Rana playing the role of Raavan. The journey of the love, ordeals, trials, and triumphs of Lord Ram and Sita leaves you hanging mid-air as you fasten your seat belts for a grand theatrical experience of ‘Humare Ram’
Ashutosh Rana prepares to play Raavan in Humare Ram at Kamani Auditorium in New Delhi.
In his interview Outlook, he says, "whatever character I choose, my effort is always that I try to finish the ‘Ashutosh Rana’ inside me. Once ‘Ashutosh Rana’ ends, then the character comes to life."
Ravaan is the one character immortal of all being burnt year after year just to live on the shelves of preachers. For Ashutosh Rana, it is the importance to know the enemy's perspective which invokes his interest in Raavan.
Actors Ashutosh Rana and Rahul Bhuchar share a laugh before going on stage to perform in Humare Ram at Kamani Auditorium in New Delhi.
Rahul Bhuchar plays the role of Lord Ram in the show, the hero to the anti-hero. To know Ram, Ashutosh Rana says, you have to see him through Raavan's perspective.
"In spite of having the same qualities, why is one revered and the other condemned? If we look at their journeys, Ram traversed from power to devotion and Raavan from devotion to power," Rana says.
Ashutosh Rana during his performance at Kamani Auditorium.
Ashutosh Rana is also the author of Ram Rajya, which won him the Sahitya Akademi Award and became a bestseller in Hindi.
Actor Ashutosh Rana shares his insights in an interview with Outlook, he says, all platforms are just mediums to transport one’s art. Both film and theatre require honesty in one's performance for audience to enjoy your work.
