The suspense is now over. Bipasha Basu has been signed on to play Mandodari, who was Ravana’s favourite wife, in Mani Ratnam’s Raavana. A source from the industry says, “Bipasha immediately said yes to the role. She’d agreed to do it a month ago but Mani had given her strict instructions to not talk about i t . ” B i p a s h a starts shooting for Raavana from mid-September.

