The Great Raghuvaran

Today.... I found a terrible news on internet and was shocked to know that Raghuvaran,one of my favourite actors,passed away. I am very sad now. Though he is just an actor and is no way connected to me in any other way other than movies I feel like we know him..


I was in IV or V class when Shiva was released. Till then, I never thought about any villains in our movies.Its not that we didnt have any.We have versatile actors like Satyanarayana,Rao gopalrao ,NuthanPrasad and many others.... But we were very young(we were children) then and we always cared about our favourite heroes and nothing else.However... our telugu villains were best actors and also good at comedy , but we never did thinking from the angle of acting abilites.Moreover at that age(below VI class)we were too young to notice..


Shiva is the movie which brought overhaul changes in many ways. It is perfect in many ways...whether it is acting,dialogues ,background music or technicalities .It offered everything in a very realistic way. And there is no doubt that one person who took most of the cake is "Bhavani",our Raghuvaran. Though he was ruthless,he mesmerised everybody with his sharp looks and powerful acting. The very thought of Bhavani brings shivers down the spine.He enacted that role flawlessly and impressively. That was the first time I started observing villains of our movies and their acting skills.From there...I started looking the performances of characters besides heroes' .And it was Raghuvaran who made me look from that angle.



Whatever be the person's character in a movie ,whether its a hero role or anti-hero role or any other one, when we like his or her acting we enjoy it. And Raghuvaran is one who always made me happy through every character he essayed.Forget not the subtle character he played in Maniratnam,s "Anjali".We can feel the anguish the character suffers. Radha Krishna and I ,in our school days used to discuss about the character "Anthony" in RajniKanth's "Bhasha". There is some charisma in him which draws people's attention.

Dear Raghuvaran ,we miss you.