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The Enemy Who Rejuvenates | Ashutosh Rana As Raavan 

Outlook spends time with actor Ashutosh Rana as he prepa🍌res to play Raavan in Humare Ram at Kamani Auditorium in New Delhi.

Ashutosh Rana
Ashutosh R🐠ana prepares to play Raavan in Hไumare Ram at Kamani Auditorium in New Delhi. | 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
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Ashutosh Rana prepares to play Raavan in Humare Ram at Kamani Audito🐠rium ꧃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."

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Ashutosh Rana | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook
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Ravaan is the one character immortal of all being burnt year after year just to li🅰ve on the shelves of preachers. For Ashutosh Rana, it ꦛis the importance to know the enemy's perspective 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
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Actors Ashutosh Rana and Rahul Bhuchar share a laugh before going 🍸on stage to perform in Humare Ram at Kamani Auditorium in Ne🤡w Delhi.

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Actors Ashutosh Rana and Rahul Bhuchar
Actors Ashutosh Rana and Rahul Bhuchar | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook
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Rahul Bhuchar plays the role of Lord Ram in the show, the hero to th🍰e anti-hero. To know Ram, Ash💎utosh Rana says, you have to see him through Raavan's perspective.

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Ashutosh Rana
Ashutosh Rana | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook
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"In spite of having the same qualities, why is one revered and the oth🅷er condemned? If we look at their journeys, Ram traversed from power to devotion and Raavan from devotion to power," Rana says.

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Ashutosh Rana plays Raavan
Ashutosh Rana plays Raavan | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook
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Ashuto⛦sh R🦋ana during his performance at Kamani Auditorium.

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Ashutosh Rana | Photo: Suresh K Pandey/Outlook
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Ashutosh Rana is also the author of Ram Rajya, which 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
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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 𝐆 audience ꩵto enjoy your work.