Ramayana Part 1 Movie Review: Ranbir Kapoor-Yash conjure up the perfect epic for this Kalyuga

The Indian Express · Shubhra Gupta · 2026-11-05 05:31 UTC

Ramayana Part 1 Movie Review And Rating: Ranbir Kapoor-Yash-Sai Pallavi-starrer is unapologetically bigger than any other Ramayana iteration we have seen before. The background music is Hans Zimmer- AR Rahman jodi on full throttle, and there’re enough sorcery and thrills and adventure to keep audience happy.

Ramayana Part 1 Movie Review: Can Namit Malhotra, whose clear ownership of this latest cinematic re-telling of Ramayana been a constant talking point, have conjured up just the right version of the beloved epic for this age of Kalyug?

Having been done in by the horror that was Adipurush, anything would have been better. But something about the crescendo of publicity that accompanied every single act of constructing this one, made me wary. Would this also be one of those high-profile mega-mythological projects claiming the big, bigger, biggest mantle which would prove to be a big fat zero?

I’m here to tell you that my fears have largely been unfounded. I took time to submit to the goings-on, on screen, but by the half way mark, I’d been convinced, and settled into the shenanigans of Lankapati Dashanan aka Ravana (Yash) and the fitting responses of Rama (Ranbir Kapoor) and Sita (Sai Pallavi) and Lakshman (Ravi Dubey), as well as the host of colourful characters, most of whom we know as well as our family members.

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