Dhesikan Venkatesan

Worst. Do not waste time. Go watch Aadipurush.

This movie is going to hit the audience different depending on perception. While this is a very bad adaptation of Valmiki’s or for that matter any Ramayana, this was a good imaginative version of Om Raut’s Ramayana and that is how an ignorant westerner would look at. This movie is definitely not made for an Indian audience who are mostly well versed in various versions of Ramayana (Valmiki, Tulsidas, Kalidas, Kambar etc). The issue here is there are so many Hindus for whom Ramayana and Mahabharatha are two of the biggest Itihasas you should not cater them this movie. Ramayana, Mahabharata, Jesus’s or any story that is deeply rooted in any religion and has religious connotations which are revered immensely by so many people should not be dabbles with so much freedom as it is bound to hurt so many people. That is where the director failed and not in the way he made the movie which was his version and how he sought to see Ramayana. In short, a movie made for westerners with heavy Hollywood influences (Avengers, Harry potter, Lord of rings etc) but totally ignored the Indian and in particular Hindu sentiments. Even by that standard if you decide to judge or try to enjoy the movie from a non-hindu or Brahmin point of view the graphics and VFX are up to some of the latest standards our Indian cinema has produced in the recent movies (Shaka’s Robot for example). The good: Music, BGM, and acting in certain scenes The bad: VFX, Color tone of the movie, dialogues, screenplay, and direction Bottomline - money not well spent and truly begs the question on where all that 600 crores was spent.