Saif Ali Khan will play Ravan in Adipurush, Director Om Raut’s take on the Ramayan. Prabhas will play Lord Ram.
When Arvind Trivedi played Ravan in the 1980s television serial Ramayan, its director Ramanand Sagar chose to have the actor on screen minus the 10 heads that Valmiki, the author of the epic Ramayan, vested the king of Lanka with.
If Om Raut wants to make Saif look ‘demonic’, we suggest the director and actor work with CGI and produce a Ravan with 10 heads.
Saif, we are confident, can produce 10 different expressions for each head and each scene.
Rajesh Karkera/KhabriBaba.com creates a version of Saif as the 10-headed monarch of Lanka who abducted Sita and sparked off the eternal battle between good and evil.
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Interestingly, Saif has already had such a look, in Lal Kaptaan, a film that not too many people have seen: