Mumbai: Nitesh Tiwari’s ‘Ramayana’ was officially announced on Thursday with a video featuring Ranbir Kapoor as Ram, Yash as Ravan, Sai Pallavi as Sita, Ravi Dubey as Laxman, and Sunny Deol as Hanuman.
On viewing the first glimpse of ‘Ramayana’, netizens were divided on the casting of Ranbir and Yash.
Some believed that Yash would have been a better choice for the role of Ram, and Ranbir would have been apt for portraying Ravana.
“I still don’t like Ranbir as Ram. Feel Yash will definitely look better,” wrote one person.
“Yash as Ram would be a more suitable choice,” felt another user.
“Both should have reversed their roles!! Yash, if clean-shaven, or even look at his movies before KGF, would suit. And Ranbir can take Animal look to be Raavan,” expressed a Reddit user.
There were others who felt that Yash will overshadow Ranbir in the film, hence the filmmakers should have roped in some other actor with more star power than Ranbir for the role of Ram.
“Prabhu Ram should have been someone with powerful screen presence. Yash gonna overshadow him so easilyyy,” felt one person.
Another wrote, “No, I can’t imagine RK as Ram not matter what people say… but Yash as Ravana? Oh ho hooooo! I’m seated!”
“They shud have cast someone else as Ram who has the Aura and Screen Presence against Yash as Raavan,” said one user.
A section of users are quite excited to watch Ranbir and Yash as Ram and Ravan, respectively.
“#Ranbir: Playing Lord Rama after #Animal. #Yash: Playing Ravana after #Kgf. Feels like a proper experiment for them..And both are good actors. Just wanna see their face off. With Yash as Ravana, it’ll be interesting!!” stated one user.
A Redditor posted, “He got the body language right. Yash looks menacing and Ranbir the way he held the arrow was gorgeous. That’s exactly how he had to do it. So excited.”
Produced by Namit Malhotra and Yash, ‘Ramayana’ will be released in two parts. Part 1 will hit theatres on Diwali 2026, and Part 2 on Diwali 2027.
Watch the video here:
“I had lived as Ravana and I would die as Ravana. I did not intend to become Rama, the perfect man and God.”#RamayanaGlimpse#RamayanaPart1 #Ravana #YashBOSS pic.twitter.com/yEwMfyag59
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