The story of much-awaited flick ‘Ravana’, which was kept as a guarded secret, is out of the closet.

According to sources, the storyline of Abhi-Ash starrer, which is set for 2009 release, was only told to the leading characters including Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and a few other members involved in the project.

But now the story has been leaked.

According to reports, the story of the film goes like this: Abhi’s sister gets publicly disgraced by the role played by South star Vikram.

To take revenge, a fuming Abhishek enters Vikram’s house. But he doesn’t find Vikram there.

Wishing to teach him a lesson, Abhishek kidnaps Vikram’s wife, which is played by Aishwarya Rai.

Abhi knows that police was chasing him, so he hides in the nearby jungle.

And here the story takes ‘U’ turn, when both Abhi-Ash fall in love.

‘Ravana’ is apparently a fresh day take on the ‘Ramayana’ with Junior Bachchan playing the lead character.

But it’s Abhi-Ash’s love situation that takes story to a different level.

Suhasini, Mani Ratnam’s wife, also makes her Bollywood debut with ‘Ravana’.

According to rumor mill, the role played by Govinda is inspired by ‘Hanuman’ from Ramayana who helps Vikram to reach Abhishek.

Ravi Kissen plays Abhishek’s trusted aide whereas Nikhil Dwivedi plays a cop.

In its Tamil versionm, the name given to the film will be ‘Ashokavanam’ with Prithviraj Sukumar playing Abhishek’s character.

Actress-dancer Shobana has done the choreography.