As evidenced by the titles in the trailer and on all the posters for the first film, this is “Namit Malhotra’s Ramayana”, a visually splendid epic that places Malhotra’s expertise in visual effects front and centre. The son of a Bollywood producer and grandson of a cinematographer, Malhotra started a VFX company – now known as Double Negative, or DNEG – in his dad’s garage in Mumbai aged 19. The company has since worked on many films – including Blade Runner 2049, Oppenheimer, all three Dune films, and, yes, The Odyssey itself – and won a total of eight Oscars.
