Bollywood's voluptuous Bipasha Basu has been finally drawn into the multi-starrer bilingual ‘Raavan'.

Ace filmmaker Manirathnam has been on a long-time pursuit of an actress to enact ‘Mandodari' in his modernized epic of ‘Ramayanam'. Earlier, the filmmaker had offered Reema Sen and Nayanthara the role, which they turned down as they weren't confident with this deglamorized role.

Eventually, Manirathnam was much impressed with Bips' deglamorized role in her Bengali film ‘SHOB CHARITRO KALPONIK' and indeed approached her to perform this role.

Instantaneously, without any delay, the actress signed the pact to enact ‘Mandodari' in both the versions (Tamil and Hindi). According to the sources, Bipasha will appear for 40mins in the film and her portions will be shot from September 15.

She will be spotted playing Vikram's wife in Tamil while the Hindi version will have her paired up with Abhishek Bachchan.