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0:07Namaskaram to all the astikas
0:10of Bharat Desha of our beloved India
0:13as well as
0:15astikas who are living in the other
0:18countries.
0:19So to all the astikas world over a big
0:22namaskaram.
0:24I am your Dushyant Sridhar
0:26for the last 20 plus years have been
0:28associated with our Vedic scriptures
0:30either in the form of speaking about it
0:33or writing on it,
0:36directing a couple of movies. So this
0:38has been my little space and I'm sure
0:41with all your blessings it should go
0:43well ahead.
0:44At the outset
0:46all our
0:49the scriptures that we revere, we hold
0:50so close to our hearts especially the
0:53Ramayana
0:55time and again that has been made into
0:58movie, series, serial, video games,
1:02books,
1:04dance dramas, music concerts,
1:08board games, so on and so forth. So
1:12Hinduism gives us that space
1:15to visualize all our scriptures in the
1:18medium that we feel we are very
1:20comfortable with.
1:21And in my humble opinion cinema,
1:24entertainment is is a very big space, a
1:26very powerful medium to communicate the
1:29quintessence of our scriptures.
1:31So at the outset I would like to
1:34congratulate the entire team of the
1:36producers, the director, the cast, the
1:39crew, whoever has worked on the
1:42movie, the very best.
1:45So you've taken up a project such as
1:47this, the Ramayana which is so very
1:49rooted and dharmic in its roots to
1:52project. But I just happened to watch
1:54the movie this morning
1:56just for educational purposes. I wanted
2:00to know how it has been projected. So at
2:02the outset, the director in the
2:05disclaimer said that we have largely
2:07based
2:08our movie on the Valmiki Ramayana. Of
2:10course, like any other disclaimer, it
2:12said that there's no resemblance to this
2:14and that and all of that. So they have
2:15mentioned Valmiki at the start.
2:18So my review of this movie is going to
2:20be very strictly academic oriented. So
2:24if certain points seem a bit harsh,
2:29it is not stemming out of any animosity
2:31towards the team or anybody. It's just a
2:36direct review of what I felt about the
2:38movie. One.
2:40At the outset, they say that there is a
2:42war between the Devas and the Asuras.
2:45I don't know what Asuras they are
2:46talking about. The director and the team
2:49should be very clear that there is a
2:51clan called the Devas who are called the
2:53Suras. They are all Aditi's sons. Then
2:56we have Aditi's sons who are the Asuras
2:59or
3:00for example, Hiranyakashipu is an Asura.
3:04His son Prahlada is an Asura. So they
3:06are all Asuras.
3:08Now they get the director
3:11and the entire team whoever has done the
3:13story and the screenplay,
3:16they're getting confused between Asuras
3:19and Rakshasas.
3:20So every time Kaikeshi says
3:25Where are the Asur?
3:27They are all
3:29not related to
3:31Diti anyway. So they are not
3:34Asuras, they are Rakshasas. And even
3:37later when Shurpanakha comes in the
3:39second half of the movie, when she comes
3:42in her chariot and arrives in
3:43Panchavati, she says
3:49She has to say this is Rakshason ki
3:50bhumi.
3:51She has to mention Rakshasas there. So
3:54first of all, they are not able to
3:55distinguish Asuras and
3:57Rakshasas.
3:59Second,
4:01it is shown as if Ravana is
4:04defeated. Sorry, initially Devas are
4:07defeating the Rakshasas and the
4:08Rakshasas were in the dungeons of Lanka.
4:11They were getting only rise. The Devas
4:13were very harsh at them and the
4:16Rakshasas were so very meek, so very
4:18good. They were getting only parched
4:20grains. Why
4:22I think that is a very wrong approach.
4:25So you're you're taking all of our
4:27politics and our agenda there to the
4:29movies, not required.
4:32Now Dashanana. So Ravana is called
4:34Dashanana initially. I agree with it
4:36because he receives the name Ravana only
4:38after he has lifted the Kailasha Parvata
4:41where he cries when Lord Shiva precious
4:44presses his toe, he cries. That's when
4:46he receives the name Ravana. Before that
4:48he was called Dashanana. Fine. Dashanana
4:50is initially shown to be a very sattvic
4:53person playing the veena and all of that
4:55always into Shastras. Then the mother
4:58Kaikeyi has to come in kind of brainwash
5:00him and say, oh, you have to seek
5:03revenge for all the humiliation we have
5:05been meted to go do tapasya. I don't
5:08know why why this had to come into
5:10picture. See, your as a movie maker, you
5:12can take the freedom to slightly change,
5:14but this changes the entire
5:17the the the the the character of that
5:19particular person.
5:21Then he leaves for starts for doing
5:23tapasya. When he starts doing tapasya,
5:26there is no janeu. There's no punal.
5:28There's no upavita.
5:30Towards the end of it, he has received a
5:31boon. Suddenly when he comes back to his
5:33palace, there is a
5:35janeu. So
5:37when you're doing tapasya, will you take
5:39one day off, get your janeu ceremony
5:41done, and then will you come back? So
5:43why has there been no consistency? When
5:45he starts, he should have a janeu. When
5:47he returns, he should have a janeu.
5:50Then Ravana, the moment he becomes the
5:52king of Lanka,
5:54he gives a very socialist speech. He
5:55tells his janta,
5:57if I have a house in gold, I will also
6:00give you a house in gold. When did the
6:03original Rakshasa king called Ravana
6:05give such compassionate speeches? He was
6:07very merciless. And I will also give you
6:11a palace and gold. All that is
6:13irrelevant. Now, there is this big thing
6:15about Shiva Tandava Stotra.
6:22It's very popular these days. I don't
6:23know who has composed this. To the best
6:25of my knowledge, it will be maximum 50
6:28to 100 years old.
6:30The composition is very beautiful,
6:32rhythmic, very suited for dance
6:35performances. All that is fine, but it
6:36will be barely 50 to 100 years old.
6:38In the original Ramayana, in the Uttara
6:40Kanda, when Ravana clearly goes to
6:43Kailasha Parvata, Nandi stops him. He
6:48humiliates Nandi. Nandi gives him a
6:50curse. And then he tries to lift the
6:52Parvata. Then Shiva brings his arrogance
6:54down. That is when he sings a few
6:57samans, which is
6:59in Samaveda, the mantras which have to
7:02be sung in a certain way. He impresses
7:04Shiva by singing those samans. That's
7:06all.
7:07There is no
7:08mention of him composing verses.
7:11There is no mention of it.
7:12Now, another thing is he Okay, let's say
7:15for a minute Shiva Tandava Stotra is
7:17what Ravana has composed.
7:19The problem comes he composes
7:22Shiva Tandava Stotra and Shiva has to do
7:24the tandava for the stotra. This man is
7:26dancing. Ravana is dancing. I don't know
7:28why. Will you Then it's Ravana tandava.
7:30It's not Shiva tandava. Shiva has to do
7:32the tandava, not Ravana.
7:35Then whenever Ravana comes, there is a
7:37small I I could kind of listen to some
7:40some BG in the background, which is a
7:42combo of Tamil and Telugu.
7:45I don't know
7:46the team has to do real real real
7:48research
7:50to know why is Tamil associated with
7:52Ravana. Ravana and Tamil are two
7:54different things. Tamil is a beautiful
7:56language, beautiful culture, ancient
7:58language. But why is Ravana
8:01being shown in the background with the
8:02Tamil chorus? That's what I heard. I
8:05could be wrong. If I'm wrong, please do
8:06correct me.
8:08Then when he fights the elephant of
8:12Indra called Airavata, the four tusks of
8:14Airavata pierce should pierce him and
8:17those scars should be found on Ravana's
8:19chest which he will sported to people
8:21stating see I have fought Airavata.
8:24No scars are found when he fights
8:26Airavata.
8:27Then there is one portion where Ravana
8:30forgives Indra. He says Indra
8:35It's as if Ravana is being very
8:36compassionate. He's a rakshasa.
8:37Rakshasas are people who are merciless.
8:40This is Rama's dialogue in the Yuddha
8:43Kandam where he sees Ravana bereft of
8:45weapons and he says you are bereft of
8:47weapons. I will not fight you. I will
8:48not kill you. You go home today.
8:51Prepare yourself and come tomorrow.
8:53That's because Rama is compassionate.
8:55But here Ravana tells Indra. Next
8:59when the payasam comes out of
9:02the
9:04Agni Kundam, it should be in a golden
9:06pot with a silver lid. I didn't see that
9:08silver lid formation. Next
9:12here Ravana doesn't include the humans
9:15while he seeks boons to Brahma because
9:17he believes humans are generally very
9:19powerless. Why should I even include
9:21them in my list? That was Ravana's
9:23thought. Here Indra tells another Rishi
9:26or Vishnu has to incarnate as a human.
9:30Why why will Bhagavan incarnate as a
9:32powerless human?
9:34So Indra himself concurs with Ravana
9:36that humans are powerless. Next
9:40I don't know Jatayu is believed to be
9:42the friend of Dasharatha, no doubt. But
9:45irrelevantly Jatayu comes at the start
9:47of Bala Kandam, looks into how what is
9:49happening in Ayodhya. Then he showers
9:52flower petals on Rama. All that is
9:54irrelevant.
9:56Now Rama, young Rama,
9:58Vashistha trains him in archery. That
10:01time Rama shoots arrows on what you
10:03know? Watermelon. Why will you have a
10:06watermelon at that period?
10:09I I can't fathom this.
10:10Then Manthara, the maid servant to
10:12Kaikeyi,
10:14she has been there throughout. So at the
10:16start in Balakandam, in the middle of
10:18Balakandam, at the start of Ayodhya
10:20Kandam, she is known to be a person
10:23who whose words are very sharp. She can
10:26brainwash people. She comes only on the
10:29day before Rama's Pattabhishekam.
10:44So she was so strong in one day she came
10:46and brainwashed Kaikeyi.
10:47But this Manthara is a very unsuccessful
10:50mantra because she has been there with
10:51Kaikeyi throughout her Ayodhya journey.
10:53So I don't know why mantra is shown that
10:55way.
10:56Now
10:57a rakshasa comes and informs Ravana.
11:00Ravana, you know what? Vishnu has taken
11:02incarnation as Rama and he's learning
11:04Shastram and Shastram.
11:06Is it some political scoop? How do they
11:08even know? Does Bhagavan inform that I
11:10am the avatara? Our acharyas have
11:13deciphered that he's an avatara.
11:15No informer should come and inform.
11:18Next Vishwamitra tells Dasharatha, what
11:20should he tell oh this mantra Tataka,
11:23Subahu, Maricha are all troubling me.
11:25Send Rama. He says Ravana has sent these
11:29rakshasas to trouble me. I don't know
11:31why Ravana becomes so important in this
11:33discussion.
11:35Then Vishwamitra
11:38this is just a suggestion, probably in
11:40the second part, Dasharatha and his
11:42entire clan belong to Shukla Yajurveda.
11:45So probably you can just have some BGM
11:47of Shukla Yajurveda based Purusha Suktam
11:49in the background that will add more
11:50gravitas.
11:52Then when Rama is initially fighting
11:54with the rakshasas when he goes in the
11:56middle of the forest to protect
11:57Vishwamitra Yajna, he uses a knife to
12:00attack some rakshasa from the behind.
12:02Rama,
12:04best of dharmic persons will never
12:06attack from the behind. I don't know who
12:08gave this idea.
12:10Then well I have to give some positive.
12:13I would say that the Lakshmana, the
12:14person who's pairing playing the
12:16Lakshmana character is extremely
12:18impressive, very handsome, very very
12:21good in dialogue delivery and I would
12:24say he's
12:25Lakshmana from the very angry young man
12:27perspective now moves to a slightly
12:29humorous character,
12:31which is fine. You know, that that
12:32amount of liberty should be taken. He
12:34was good.
12:35Now,
12:35Shiva's bow kept in Mithila in Janaka's
12:38court. It is not Shiva's bow which is
12:41Pinaka
12:42because they say this is Pinaka Pinaka.
12:44That Pinaka did not break. It was
12:46another bow which was used by Shiva
12:48during a yuddham which had a crack,
12:50which was sent one king after the other
12:52and finally it reached the hands of
12:55Janaka who placed it and that was
12:57broken. So it was not Pinaka. Every time
13:00they keep repeating the same word
13:01Pinaka. Shiva has a bow called Pinaka,
13:04so he's called Pinaki and that Pinaka is
13:06different from this. Next is
13:10when Vishwamitra has to tell Dasharatha
13:13has to tell Janaka, Sita's father, now
13:15that everybody is straight, let my
13:17sishya Rama try.
13:20Rama is not Vishwamitra's sishya. He's
13:22Vashistha's sishya. Just like that,
13:24people will not steal sishyas. He can at
13:27most say he's Vashistha's sishya who has
13:29come with me, but he should not say he's
13:30my sishya. Then Rama and Sita are
13:33talking before the marriage. As they
13:35walk by the garden,
13:37Rama tells Sita, see, I have promised my
13:39brothers that all four of us will get
13:41married at the same time.
13:43Maybe that's told as a joke or
13:44something, but I don't know in which
13:46version did Rama make such a
13:48illogical promise that all four will get
13:50married at the same time.
13:52Then Parashurama, when Parashurama comes
13:56to admonish Rama,
13:58one person tells the other, oh, this is
14:00Mahavishnu's sixth avatara.
14:02How did they get the number?
14:04These numbers of Dashavatara came much
14:07later and we have plenty of avataras
14:10besides the Dashavatara. So we don't
14:11know which order, which avatara is which
14:13number. They should not give Wikipedia
14:16messages through dialogues in the movie.
14:19Next is now Parashurama comes in and
14:21fights. Parashurama's parachute
14:23disappears because of Rama's strength
14:24and Parashurama gives a bow. Then what
14:26will
14:27Parashurama do now? He'll be Parashurama
14:29without Parashu. Parashurama minus
14:31Parashu. Then he'll become Rama.
14:33That is one. Now Rama keeps calling
14:38I don't know in the Ramayana there's
14:40every mention he will addresses it
14:42address her as mother.
14:44So this
14:46these are all very
14:47new words that we use. But for Rama he
14:50was she was like mother. You don't have
14:52to keep calling her
14:54Then
14:55well, there is one place where the
14:57person who's playing
14:58role, Dasharatha's wife's role is
15:00extremely angry. She used to ask for
15:02boons. So she's holding the sari like
15:04this and she's got eyes like this, open
15:06hair
15:07and if you look at that scene for a
15:09minute, if you just take the frame, it
15:11will be like one of the Hindi serials we
15:13are watching where the wife is extremely
15:15angry with the husband. It doesn't give
15:17you the period feel.
15:19Then now coming to
15:21husband
15:23So
15:24is shown as a person who who
15:27molest woman. He pulls a woman in front
15:29of Ravana, makes her sit. Ravana gets
15:31angry.
15:33Ravana was 10 times more a molester than
15:36this
15:37So why should we paint Ravana in such a
15:39great picture? He he may have known how
15:43to play the veena. He may have obtained
15:45the boon from Shiva. He may have
15:47obtained the boon from Brahma, but that
15:48doesn't change his character which is a
15:50simple molester. He used to misbehave
15:52with married women. So that is what we
15:55have to show.
15:57Now this
15:59coming to Yash. Yash has played the role
16:01of
16:03Ravana. I would say overall his body
16:06structure suits Ravana, his beard and
16:08all of that.
16:09But eyes can be a bit more expressive.
16:11So that's very important when it comes
16:14to body language. Viradha
16:17Now there is Viradha who comes and
16:19abducts Sita. That's there in the
16:20Ramayana. Here too we see a character
16:22who abducts Rama Sita.
16:24Uh he doesn't even abduct Sita. That's
16:26the thing. He's there and Rama defeats
16:28him.
16:29Now he hasn't abducted Sita.
16:31Second is we don't even know who that
16:33person's name is. Just like that one
16:34person comes and fights. How will the
16:36audience know if you don't tell this is
16:37Viradha that this is Viradha? So we'll
16:39have to mention that. Um then
16:43now towards the end of Yuddha
16:45Ayodhya Kandam, Rama goes to the
16:47hermitage of Atri Maharishi and Anasuya.
16:50Towards in the middle around the middle
16:52of
16:54Aranya Kandam, he goes to the ashrama of
16:56Agastya and Lopamudra.
16:58It is only in the ashrama of Atri
17:01Anasuya, Anasuya gifts ornaments to
17:03Sita.
17:04It is only in Agastya's ashrama, Agastya
17:06gives divyastrams to Rama. I think they
17:09have made some combination of the two.
17:11Uh
17:12there is one Rishi, I think he's called
17:13Agastya if I'm right. He serves gives
17:16divyastras to Rama. There is another
17:18lady there who gives ornaments. Who is
17:21this? Is this Lopamudra or is it
17:23Anasuya? We have to get that correct.
17:25Agastya. If at all you're showing
17:27Agastya, he's to be short. He cannot be
17:29like any of us. Otherwise why will you
17:30call him Agastya? The one who Kumbhamuni
17:33who was short, extremely short. Uh then
17:36there there are occasions where the
17:38hermitage, the parnashala is being
17:40built. It is only Lakshmana who has to
17:42build. Rama should not even lift a brick
17:45because Rama was still a raja there.
17:47Ra Lakshmana did not believe that Rama
17:50had come as a hermit. To his eyes, Rama
17:52was a raja. So he will not let Rama do
17:56these kind of construction works. So it
17:58should be only Lakshmana who does that.
18:00Then
18:02Shurpanakha comes. She comes in a
18:04chariot. The that meeting is as if
18:06Shurpanakha comes. She asks
18:09First mistake, it's Rakshason ki bhumi.
18:11She has to say it's Rakshason ki bhumi.
18:13Why are you all here? They all give
18:14their own introductions. They say this
18:16is my Aadhar number, this is my PAN
18:18number and all of that. Okay, that's all
18:20fine.
18:20Now she returns after speaking to them,
18:22she goes back. As she goes back, Sita
18:26comes and talks to Rama and smilingly
18:28asked, did you see how Surpanakha looked
18:30at you?
18:31And Rama said, why?
18:33She has so much of love for you.
18:37My point is which normal person also
18:40will talk like this that that lady has
18:42hit on you, she is very happy and will
18:44Sita do it? Why do you have to create
18:47such
18:48irrelevant, unwarranted situations in
18:50the Ramayana?
18:52Then
18:53I saw the Hindi version now.
18:57It's Shurpanakha, not Surpanakha. It's
19:01Shurpa. Shurpa is a winnowing fan. So
19:04she had nails like the winnowing fan. So
19:06she's called Shurpanakha, sharp ones.
19:09Shurpanakha, not Surpanakha.
19:13Then
19:15Yeah, now when she misbehaves with Sita,
19:18her nose should be cut and so should her
19:22ears be. So her nose should be cut in a
19:24way where she's not able to pronounce
19:26words clearly because there's a Sanskrit
19:28word called
19:31Here she just gets one thin scratch
19:33scratch. For that she could have taken a
19:35TT injection,
19:37put some Dettol and gone. There's no
19:39need for her to go and complain to
19:41Ravana. She's lost her nose. Where will
19:43you show that loss of nose?
19:45And she goes in the form of a bird.
19:47She disguises and goes in the form of a
19:49bird. Remember, when Shukracharya lost
19:52his eye, he was
19:55he was still having
19:57he went as a bumblebee.
19:58One of the eyes was lost. So for the
20:00bumblebee also one eye went away.
20:02Correct? So here as well, when you show
20:05Shurpanakha
20:07transforming into a bird, that bird
20:08should have a cut on the nose.
20:10So that's another thing.
20:13What is the
20:14status in the Ramayana? A person who has
20:17been
20:18who has not been killed in the
20:21called Akampana goes and talks
20:24the valor of Rama to Ravana. So he
20:27praises Rama's valor. So Akampana does
20:30that.
20:30See Shurpanakha goes and praises Sita's
20:33beauty. So it is only after listening to
20:35Shurpanakha's narration that Ravana is
20:38enamored and wants to have Sita in his
20:40life.
20:41Here there's no such description.
20:43Shurpanakha goes and says see what those
20:45brothers have done to me and it is as if
20:47Ravana is taking revenge for what
20:50humiliation was meted to his sister.
20:52There is no situation where they're
20:53showing this man is
20:55a lustful man.
20:57That's wrong. You cannot change that.
20:59See if we whitewash the crimes committed
21:02by the criminals, then we are as bad as
21:05the criminal. So Ravana misbehaved with
21:08plenty of women and he wanted to
21:10misbehave with Sita as well. So that's
21:11his nature. That's his fitrat. So you
21:13have to show that.
21:16Next
21:18in the
21:20Ravana Rama single-handedly fights the
21:23rakshasas. There is no need for
21:25Lakshmana's help. There's no need for
21:26Sita's help. Maybe Sita was adept in
21:29shastram, shastram. She knew how to
21:30fight. But you will never let Sita fight
21:33because Sita will want Rama to prove his
21:36valor win and then she as a queen she
21:38will appreciate. Now Sita is also
21:40equally fighting, Lakshmana is also
21:42fighting, Rama is also fighting. You're
21:44taking away the big certificate.
21:52You're taking that away.
21:54Now
21:56coming to certain other aspects. Yeah.
21:59So Lakshman rekha. Why does this keep
22:02coming
22:03Lakshmana taking and drawing one line?
22:05All this is not there. He abducted Sita.
22:08See when you abduct that woman, let's
22:10take somebody abducts us. We will
22:13give it a good fight, right? You will
22:14shout, you will cry. Here Sita doesn't
22:17cry. She doesn't shout. Suddenly she's
22:20inside the Pushpaka Vimana and she
22:22doesn't even cry. So I'm not saying that
22:26you'll have to show women as meek and
22:28weak. Sita is very strong, but even
22:31strong people in certain moments in
22:33their life, they will feel a bit
22:34vulnerable. That's how Valmiki projects.
22:36She tries to stop. She hits at Ravana.
22:39She does all that. Here in this movie,
22:41Sai Pallavi doesn't move an inch. So,
22:44Lakshman Rekha irrelevant, not needed.
22:48Ravana should come as a Tridandi
22:50Sanyasi. There's a clear mention in the
22:52Ramayana.
22:54Then there is one mention where this man
22:57who comes, Ravana who comes, says, Sita,
22:59come and give me Bhiksha. Sita says, I
23:01will not come. You could have stopped
23:02there. Sita now asks, okay, tell me in
23:05Rigveda the 10th Mandala in the
23:07Hiranyagarbha Sukta, tell me two mantras
23:09and then only I'll come.
23:11What is this some security question for
23:13password or something that you do this?
23:15Why when did Sita do all of that? And
23:19now the sword that was been gifted by
23:21Shiva to Ravana at the start in the
23:23movie is slightly different from the
23:26sword that is shown by Ravana that that
23:29was used to attack Jatayu. Maybe I'm a
23:31bit wrong. That was just shown for a few
23:33seconds. That needs to be checked.
23:35Ravana fights Jatayu and he breaks one
23:38of the claw and keeps it as a remnant in
23:41his Pushpaka Vimana.
23:43Now Sita throws away jewelry. She throws
23:45her bangles. She's bereft of earrings.
23:48Wrong. She had earrings called
23:50Swadamstra in her ears. She had chain.
23:53She would not throw away everything. Out
23:55of her two anklets, she threw only one.
23:57And throughout the Ramayana, except the
24:00portion where she's been abducted and
24:01she's housed in Lanka, you have to show
24:03her in Chignum, a bun. The hair has to
24:05be in the form of a bun.
24:07Only in the face where she was separated
24:10from Rama, she will have a braid. So
24:13that braid will come
24:14that Veni will come only during that
24:17abduction face and after she was in that
24:20Ashokavana.
24:24Yeah.
24:25Jatayu tries to remember
24:28tries to tell Rama the powers of Ravana,
24:30Kumbhakarna, of his entire army. That
24:33portion was very good. I liked it. Now
24:35coming to the aesthetics, Lanka streets.
24:39It had like proper square square tiles
24:41and it had Italian mansion like flower
24:45pots and
24:47the interiors of the Lanka assembly
24:49which was under Kubera and later went to
24:51Ravana, very very ugly. And
24:55I kind of saw one depiction of a statue
24:59of
25:00in the movie they are showing as if it
25:02is Indra seated on the elephant and
25:03somebody from the sky is just attacking
25:06him, which is Ravana.
25:08That is actually in my eyes when I saw
25:11it resembled the sculpture of Bhima
25:14attacking Bhagadatta while he was in an
25:16elephant in the Mahabharata war from the
25:18Halebidu temple of the Hoysala
25:19architecture. They have used it here,
25:21not a grave mistake could have been
25:23avoided.
25:25Now Ayodhya flooring of the palace, it
25:28looks so Islamic that inlaid work of
25:31marble and all of that that's Islamic
25:33Mughal architecture.
25:35And the landscaping of the gardens looks
25:37very very artificial. It should be more
25:40rustic, earth like.
25:42The Tataka Vanam that they showed that
25:44was very good. I liked it. And then
25:46there is an Agra fort like landscaping
25:49in Mithila as well. And Ayodhya has no
25:52huts.
25:53Everybody seems to be living in villas
25:55and row houses. So probably we should
25:57all get shifted to Ayodhya. And in the
26:00original Ramayana, Dasharatha after
26:02knowing that Rama is going to leave
26:04Ayodhya, has left from Ayodhya, has
26:06reached the forest. He couldn't even get
26:08up from his bed.
26:10Here Dasharatha is gets up from his bed,
26:12is seated on the sofa and is
26:15thrown irrelevant. Now
26:18Kaikeyi, Kaikeyi who whose role is being
26:21done by Shobhana, the actress and
26:25Surpanakha's role is being done by Rakul
26:27Preet Singh. So they all don't wear like
26:29full hand blouses because that's how it
26:31was in the past because you didn't have
26:33the concept of stitched clothes. So they
26:35would just wear something that would
26:36cover their chest and then a
26:39saree a long cloth like structure. They
26:41wouldn't have blouses.
26:43shown that way whereas Sita, her sisters
26:45Mandavi, Shrutakeerti, Urmila, their
26:47mothers, her mother, everybody is
26:49wearing like proper designer blouses. I
26:51don't know why there's so much of a
26:53mismatch.
26:55Now that even before Rama's coronated,
26:58Rama's crown is bigger than Dasharatha's
27:00crown.
27:01So what is coronation all about?
27:04And easily when you look at Rama who's
27:07going to get married to Sita, he will
27:09look easily 25 to 30 years old.
27:12Rama was married very very young. So
27:15show a younger Rama and then graduate
27:18him to this Rama is my
27:21suggestion. Then the footwear that the
27:23menus, especially Rama Bharata, it's all
27:26like you know, you go to Manyavar and
27:28other shops, you get those proper good
27:30footwear, right? It looks like that. Not
27:32needed. Go to the
27:34ancient ways how people lived. It will
27:36be a wrong wood like thing maybe gilded
27:39in gold and with one small
27:41protruding portion. That's how it should
27:43be. Mithila, all the girls are wearing
27:46lehenga. So for a minute, you'll forget
27:48that this is a period movie and you'll
27:49think it's some Bollywood movie where
27:51people are dancing with lehengas. And
27:53then Sita is wearing a velvet, red
27:55velvet blouse with so much of chunky
27:58work and all of that.
27:59I don't know. The costume designer
28:01really really needs to work hard at
28:04least for his forthcoming movies. I felt
28:07that went terribly wrong. And now when
28:10Dasharatha managed wants to coronate
28:13Rama as the king, one night I saw one
28:15scene where he comes, takes the crown,
28:18gives it to Rama and says see you just
28:19give it a try, try wearing this. This is
28:22not some trial room in some mall where
28:24we go and try your clothes, right? So
28:26that's not the way you should do it. And
28:28saree, when you are draping a saree for
28:32women in the period movies, it should be
28:33a
28:35meaning, it should be tight, it should
28:37go down, come from the back for both men
28:40and women. That's how it is. Here you
28:42cannot have like a proper six yard saree
28:44of these days that you give. There is
28:46one portion in the forest, in the middle
28:48of the forest Sita is walking.
28:49That too she's walking with a
28:53saffron color saree, light saffron color
28:55saree. Sita wore silk clothes in the
28:57forest. Saffron color saree, red blouse,
29:00a sling bag a bag
29:03and a braid. Everything that can go
29:05wrong could go wrong in her dressing.
29:08And then Sita in the forest, she puts
29:10her
29:12pallu in the form of a scarf. I don't
29:14know when did women in the past
29:16especially in the Ramayana, there's a
29:18mention that she wore it like a scarf.
29:20Not needed.
29:23And then
29:25when Rama leaves Ayodhya, starts from
29:28Ayodhya, that time itself he has jata
29:29which is wrong. Hair has to grow. It
29:32won't grow overnight.
29:33In the forest later when there is
29:35overgrown hair, he asks for the milk of
29:38the latex of the
29:40and then applies it and makes it a jata.
29:42Not immediately the moment he starts
29:43from Ayodhya.
29:45Then
29:47yeah, the music
29:52I thought it kind of resonated more with
29:56maybe some Sufi music. Nothing wrong
29:58with Sufi music, but why will you put
30:00that into Ramayana movie? Second, there
30:02was this
30:05kind of tune somewhere. I don't remember
30:07which song, but I've heard that tune
30:09elsewhere. So see coming to music
30:12I've grown up listening to a lot of
30:15the compositions in the movies of AR
30:18Rahman. So for the last 25 30 years he
30:20has been very very strong and we have
30:22listened to such nice tunes. But this
30:25movie I felt it's a big let down. The
30:26music is a very very big let down.
30:31Yeah.
30:32So this is with respect to the movie.
30:35One or two good points are there, of
30:36course, they are the Tataka Vanam and
30:38they fight. And Jatayu
30:42kind of briefing what are Ravana's
30:44powers. All that is fine.
30:47Aesthetics is poor.
30:51I would say the best for me in terms of
30:53acting, I would say the Lakshman
30:55character came out very well.
30:58I would say Surpanakha was decent.
31:00Kaikeyi, Shobana who has played was
31:02decent.
31:03Ravana, he has a stature. He has a
31:05screen presence when he comes. Yes.
31:08But can be a bit more expressive with
31:10eyes. Rama and Sita, though Ranbir
31:12Kapoor and Sai Pallavi are like national
31:14award winners, they are very strong. But
31:17as characters, probably that's also
31:18because when you play such iconic
31:20characters like Rama and Lakshmana, you
31:22should have less known people, extremely
31:25talented people, lesser known people
31:27from the drama, dramatics field who have
31:30to do that role. If you put established
31:32actors, it is very tough for the
31:34audience to unmask them from their
31:36original and see them as Rama and Sita.
31:39And I felt that Sai Pallavi
31:42as an actor she's good, but to fit
31:45Sita's role is
31:47I don't know. It it didn't fit her is
31:48what I felt.
31:50I don't know. Many of them would have
31:52felt that she was very good at Sita, but
31:53as Sita, I felt that Sai somebody else
31:56other than Sai Pallavi could have
31:58somebody else. I don't know who.
32:01And coming to Rama, throughout the
32:02Ramayana, there's a mention that he was
32:04dark skin.
32:05You don't have to bring somebody from
32:07some other continent, but can't you show
32:09some dark brown skin? Why should you
32:11show a very fairer skin for Rama?
32:15That's how the Ramayana is, right? So my
32:19my concluding remarks will be, yes, you
32:21can take some license. You can take that
32:23liberty to do some changes in the
32:25screenplay, but do not change the story.
32:27Don't make
32:29Ravana look very good because he used to
32:31misbehave with Sita.
32:33So that's the biggest drawback he had.
32:35Show it the way it is.
32:37And he had lust, and that should be
32:39visible in his eyes. It's not as if just
32:41like that he comes and wants to take
32:43revenge for what his sister underwent.
32:46And what his sister underwent, that is
32:47also not shown clearly. So I would say
32:50you can go watch the movie.
32:52I because there are so many people who
32:54are dependent, their livelihoods are
32:56dependent on movie
32:58Go watch. I wouldn't say don't watch,
33:00but don't believe this is the Ramayana.
33:02There's a lot more. Read the books,
33:06listen to lectures, research on it. That
33:10will be more helpful rather than
33:11trusting what this movie has to say.
33:13Yeah. Anyways, I wish the best of luck
33:16for the entire team of cast and crew. If
33:19you're planning to do the part two,
33:22try researching it better and presenting
33:24it better.

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