Ravan Explained

Ravan, Raavan or Ravanan, may refer to:

Religion

• Ravana, Ravan or Ravanan, the prime antagonist in the ancient Hindu epic Ramayana

Film and TV

• Raavan (1984 film), an Indian Hindi-language film
• Ravanan (1994 film), a 1994 Indian Tamil-language film starring Mansoor Ali Khan
• Ravanan (2006 film), a 2006 Indian Malayalam-language film starring Kalabhavan Mani
• Ra.One or Raavan, a 2011 Indian Hindi-language science fiction film
  • Ra.One, the main antagonist of the film played by Arjun Rampal, modelled after the character in the Ramayana
• Raavan (2022 film), Indian Bengali-language action thriller film
• Two Indian films simultaneously directed and produced by Mani Ratnam:
  • Raavan (2010 film), the Hindi-language version starring Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai
    • Raavan (soundtrack), by A. R. Rahman
  • Raavanan (2010 film), the Tamil-language version starring Vikram and Aishwarya Rai
    • Raavanan (soundtrack), by A. R. Rahman
• Raavan (TV series), a 2006-2008 Indian mythological drama television series

Places

• Ravan, Busovača, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Ravan, Brod-Posavina County, a village near Sibinj, Croatia
• , an islet near Žirje, Croatia
• Ravan, Hamadan, a village in Iran
• Ravan, Kermanshah, a village in Iran
• Ravan (river), in Russia

Other uses

• Ravan (comics), a DC Comics character
• , a novel by Amish Tripathi
• Eliezer ben Nathan, or Ra'avan, 10th century halakist and liturgical poet
• Ravan Press, a South African anti-apartheid publishing house
• OFK Ravan, a Bosnian football club
• Ravana (gastropod), a genus of gastropods in the family Ariophantidae

See also

• Ravenna (disambiguation)
• Rawan (disambiguation)
• Ravan Asura, a 2023 Indian film