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Ranbir Kapoor's Ramayana brings an ancient epic to global cinemas

FRANCE 24 English's fast-starting report explores the film's vast scale, its Zimmer-Rahman score and the audience response outside cinemas.

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'Ramayana': Ancient Hindu epic and India's most expensive film • FRANCE 24 English

Prince Rama's quest to rescue Sita from Ravana has become a screen spectacle with a $420 million budget, according to FRANCE 24 English. Its short report on Ramayana: Rise of a Legend, starring Ranbir Kapoor, looks at how an ancient Hindu epic has been turned into what the broadcaster describes as India's most expensive film.

The report itself has drawn roughly 640,000 views in its first eighteen hours, far beyond the channel's usual start for a Short. But the interesting part is what that brief running time contains: a glimpse of a production directed by Nitesh Tiwari, with music by Hans Zimmer and A.R. Rahman, released in Hindi and English.

Outside a cinema, critic Dr Rajan Sanghera singles out the visuals, special effects and action. Mumbai resident Surujit Kundu puts the achievement in more personal terms: "I'm very proud the way the movie has been made."

The comments offer a more specific conversation about cinematic scale. Viewers reach for comparisons with Avatar and The Lord of the Rings; one who says they watched in Australia also questions the amount of slow motion. Others discuss seeing it in IMAX and 3D.

The film opened just ahead of Diwali, a fitting setting for a story whose cultural life extends far beyond cinema. In many Hindu traditions, the festival celebrates Rama's return to Ayodhya after exile. This adaptation is not telling the whole tale in one release: the report says a second part is scheduled for 2028.

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What viewers say

I just watched it today in Australia. Pretty epic. The only thing I don't like is there are too many slow motion scenes. It sort of reminds me of the movie 300, but this one is a lot grander, like LOTR.
@unsaltedbeurre3411See it on YouTube
What a movie, Watched it in IMAX 3d and never experienced this kind of cinema before
@rahuljoshi6146See it on YouTube
Must watch in 3D
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