Lakshay Anand

Adipurush promised us a grand retelling of the Ramayana. What we got instead was a ₹500 crore PowerPoint presentation rendered in PS2 graphics with dialogues that sound like they were written during a lunch break on WhatsApp. From the first frame, it's painfully obvious that Adipurush is less about reverence and more about random VFX fireworks. The visual effects, ironically, are the true villains here—plastic-looking demons, laughable animal animations, and a Lanka that looks like a dark-themed Minecraft map. At times, it feels like you're watching a poorly-made mythological video game from the early 2000s. Prabhas as Raghava (Ram) looks lost, like he walked onto the wrong film set and just decided to stay. Kriti Sanon as Janaki (Sita) is graceful, but the script gives her nothing to do except stare into the void. Saif Ali Khan's portrayal of Lankesh (Ravana) is somewhere between Captain Jack Sparrow and Thanos on a budget—a bizarre villain who delivers lines like a Marvel reject. And let’s talk about the dialogues. “Jo hamare bheje gaye hain, woh samose nahi hain jo thande ho jayenge” — Yes, that’s an actual line. Someone, somewhere, thought that was profound. This is what happens when you try to make Ramayana sound “relatable” by dumbing it down to WhatsApp forwards. The music is jarring, the pacing is sluggish, and the film—despite all its chest-thumping patriotism—feels hollow and soulless. It's not just a bad adaptation; it’s a betrayal of one of the greatest epics ever told. In short, Adipurush is a ₹500 crore lesson in how not to adapt mythology. It’s loud, lazy, and completely devoid of the spiritual depth or storytelling finesse that the Ramayana deserves.