Ramayana's hero and villain take turns on Rotten Tomatoes

Ranbir Kapoor reflects on responsibility, while Yash finds freedom in playing the villain.

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Bringing Ram to Life

For Ranbir Kapoor, the hardest part came before the performance: understanding what it meant to take on Lord Ram. "I think the toughest part of playing Lord Ram was to understand that it wasn't just a role, it was a responsibility," he says in "Bringing Ram to Life."

The promotional interview Short, intercut with footage from Ramayana, was Rotten Tomatoes' most-watched new upload of the week, reaching roughly 9,000 views. Kapoor singles out Ram's simplicity, then reflects on compassion, forgiveness and dharma. A companion Short, "Playing the Ramayana Villain," offers a neat contrast: Yash explains the creative freedom he finds in playing the antagonist. Those two uploads also carry the channel's strongest daily momentum.

Elsewhere, "Wild Horse Nine's Friendship at the Heart" gives Martin McDonagh room to discuss male friendship in dangerous professions, particularly the affection between Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich on screen. That interest has deep roots in McDonagh's work: In Bruges built its dark comedy around two hitmen and their troubled bond. The fourth upload turns the microphone inward, asking the Rotten Tomatoes team for their go-to Halloween movies.

Across the catalog, the channel collected about 221,000 views, with subscribers unchanged and daily viewing close to its usual level. Nearby film channels had varied weeks: Du Cinema drew a substantially larger weekly audience, while Broey Deschanel had a quieter one. For Rotten Tomatoes, the new viewing centers on two actors approaching the same epic from opposite sides of its story.

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The videos drawing views on Rotten Tomatoes right now

Wild Horse Nine's Friendship at the Heart1,697 views · 2026-11-05 Playing the Ramayana Villain1,226 views · 2026-11-06 What's Your Go-To Halloween Movie?1,128 views · 2026-10-31

The numbers

Here is how Rotten Tomatoes' week looks in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Du Cinema

1,436,343

Double Toasted

594,387

Dominic Noble

543,888

Rotten Tomatoes

220,571

TV Guide

93,872

Broey Deschanel

66,144

PushingUpRoses

58,586

Full Fat Videos

24,077

The Flick Pick

6,270

subscribers

419,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

177,599,443

views per day

29,354

typical day: 29,624

first-day views of each video posted this week

Bringing Ram to Life

4,077

Wild Horse Nine's Friendship at the Hea…

1,534

What's Your Go-To Halloween Movie?

789

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Broey Deschanel

517,000

Du Cinema

501,000

Rotten Tomatoes

419,000

Dominic Noble

412,000

TV Guide

401,000

PushingUpRoses

350,000

Full Fat Videos

342,000

The Flick Pick

338,000

Double Toasted

320,000

As of November 7, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.