Ramayan teaser review: Ranbir Kapoor cuts through the CGI noise as Ram
Ranbir Kapoor plays Ram in Nitish Tiwari’s Ramayan, a teaser that blends scale with intrigue. It doesn’t completely convince, but it reveals enough to make you look and question.
Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana Makes its position clear from the beginning: it is being sold not as mythology, but as “our history, our truth.” That’s an ambitious claim, and the first glimpse of the film hinges largely on the weight of intent.
Unveiled globally on Thursday, the nearly 2.5-minute clip featuring Ranbir Kapoor as Ram is sweeping in scale and rich in visual detail. The clip tries to do more than just provide a first look. It attempts to portray the character’s emotional and narrative arc. Moving from the kandas narrated by Valmiki – Bala Kand and Ayodhya Kand to the opening tunes of Aranya Kand, the teaser presents a comprehensive, almost checklist-like path through Ram’s journey. part One.
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No doubt, it is immeasurable. But is it completely effective? Not enough.
The opening sections struggle under the weight of their own design. The heavy reliance on CGI (computer generated imagery) makes parts of the world feel overly constructed, even a little caricatured, as if the film is still finding its tone. The grandeur is obvious, but the soul takes time to arrive.
only then Ranbir Kapoor comes into the frame.
The energy of the teaser increases significantly as soon as they appear. There’s a stillness to the performance, just the right kind of intensity that begins to capture the visual surplus around it. The music settles into place, the imagery comes to life, and for the first time in the teaser, the world doesn’t feel assembled. Kapoor doesn’t entirely silence the doubts about his casting, but he complicates them. There is enough conviction here to suggest it is too early to write him off.
However, what the teaser ultimately builds on is not certainty but intrigue.
This is a clip designed for repeat viewing. It invites scrutiny, almost demands it. You find yourself pausing, replaying, scanning the frames for details you may have missed. In that sense, it works more like a teaser and less like a full revelation. It gives you enough to keep looking for more.
The closing moments best illustrate this effect.
a fleeting Ravana’s glimpse Construction towards the beginning of Pushpak Vimana. The plane, rendered with intricate details, becomes the most striking visual moment of the teaser. It is here that the film’s technical ambition and artistic imagination meet at their strongest.
The score, led by Hans Zimmer and AR Rahman, adds another layer of scale. Even in fragments, it hints at a soundscape that aims to match the film’s visual ambition – measured, detailed, and emotionally laden.
first glimpse of Ramayana Does not land as a knockout. It leaves questions unanswered, and feels superfluous in some parts, but it does something even more important: it grabs your attention.
Ramayana Huge, calculating and clearly playing a long game. If one glimpse can draw you strongly into it, then the film may have already passed its first real test.