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The Enemy Who Rejuvenates | Ashutosh Rana As Raavan 

Outlook spends time with actor Ashutosh Rana as he prepa♏res to pl🧔ay Raavan in Humare Ram at Kamani Auditorium in New Delhi.

Ashutosh Rana
Ashutosh Rana prepares to play Raavan in Humare Ram at Kamani Auditorium in New Del♎hi. | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook.

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’ 

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Ashutosh Rana
Ashutosh Rana | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook

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 alw♋ays that I try to finish the ‘Ashutosh Rana’ inside me. Once ‘Ashutosh Rana’ ends, then the character comes to life."

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Ashutosh Rana
Ashutosh Rana | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook

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 perspeඣctive which invokes his interest in Raavan.

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Actors Ashutosh Rana and Rahul Bhuchar
Actors Ashutosh Rana and Rahul Bhuchar | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook

Actors Ashutosh Rana and Rahul Bhu🦂char share a laugh before going on stage to perform in Humare Ram at Kamani Auditorium in🦩 New Delhi.

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Actors Ashutosh Rana and Rahul Bhuchar
Actors Ashutosh Rana and Rahul Bhuchar | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook

Rahꦉul Bhuchar playꩵs 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.

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Ashutosh Rana
Ashutosh Rana | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook

"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," R🐽ana says.

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Ashutosh Rana plays Raavan
Ashutosh Rana plays Raavan | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook

Ashutosh🎐 Rana during his performaꦅnce at Kamani Auditorium.

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Ashutosh Rana
Ashutosh Rana | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook

Ashutosh Rana is also the author of Ram Rajya, whiওch won him the Sahitya Akademi Award and became a bestseller in Hindi.

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Actor Ashutosh Rana
Actor Ashutosh Rana | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook

Actor Ashutosh Rana shares his i🌜nsights 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.

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