Ramayana teaser has become a major talking point across industries and social media. With a massive budget reportedly around Rs.4000 crore, expectations were sky high. People were expecting a never seen before visual spectacle. Instead, the teaser has received mixed to poor reactions, along with a lot of trolling.
Many viewers pointed out issues like weak VFX, visuals that looked AI generated, and uneven editing. This backlash came as a surprise considering the film’s scale. Interestingly, the same meme pages that once targeted Om Raut for Adipurush are now focusing on Ramayana.
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During the launch, Ranbir Kapoor mentioned that the teaser is just a sample and that the team has nearly six hours of extraordinary content with epic action, drama, and emotions. Even if that includes both parts, it raises a valid concern. Will today’s audience, especially Gen Z, sit through such a long retelling of a familiar story? Adipurush was unbearable to sit through.
Earlier, long format storytelling worked well for this narrative. Classic adaptations like Ramayan and films like Lava Kusa were huge successes. But audience behavior has changed. Even Balakrishna’s Sri Rama Rajyam was a commercial flop, while Adipurush suffered outright rejection.
This puts Ramayana in a high risk, high reward situation.
For director Nitesh Tiwari, the real challenge is not just scale, but engagement. Big claims will not matter unless the visuals impress right from the start. Today’s audience wants instant impact.
Sustaining interest across a six-hour narrative is also not easy. The current generation prefers fast paced, high impact storytelling. People sat through Animal, Pushpa, and Dhurandhar because the worlds were new and the characters felt fresh and unique from what the audience had seen till then. But Ramayana’s biggest disadvantage is that everyone already knows the story, so it depends entirely on execution.
Without strong engagement throughout, even a grand mythological epic can struggle.
Right now, audience feedback is clear. Quality matters more than scale. If the makers improve the visuals and storytelling, the film still has huge potential. Otherwise, even a massive budget may not be enough to save it.
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