This is indeed should have been the best movie but lot of shortfalls.
Character exploration is not at all good, creative freedom is still okay with many incidents taking a new line, but characters should have been introduced much better.
Dialogues again creative freedom is okay, but in the movie Lord rama says to Sitamma just before ravanas act in the forest that "she can go back to ayodya its not too late", but this act of ravana happens in the 13th year of the exile, which makes no sense
At places felt starcast was not right, except for hanuman ji
The only thing i enjoyed with goosebumps moments are during the bgm and songs
All in all the director should have done a better job by consulting more about Ramayana, to find the spark in each character, including Lord Ram, Sitamma Hanuman ji, lakshmana, Shabari, vali sugreev, jatayu, ravan,vibhishan, kumbkarana, also inderajeeta son of ravana.