By Rollo Ross<\/p>\n
LAS VEGAS, April 17 (Reuters) – The filmmakers behind big-budget Hindu epic “Ramayana” are aiming to bring a classic Hindu \u200cstory to global audiences this year.<\/p>\n
“Ramayana” tells a 5,000-year-old story \u200cabout Prince Rama, an incarnation of the Hindu deity Vishnu, played by Ranbir Kapoor, who \u200bis exiled to the forests for 14 years along with his wife and brother. When his wife is kidnapped, the story brings Rama into conflict with Ravana, the demon king of Lanka, played by Indian actor \u200cYash.<\/p>\n
“I have tried to internalize … \u2060the whole essence of Ravana and tried to make him as human as possible at times,” Yash said \u2060in an interview this week. “It’s important for people to relate to him, especially (since) we have global ambitions, so we need to make it familiar to \u200ba \u200bWestern audience as well.”<\/p>\n
The team behind \u200bthe films, which have a \u200ccombined budget of up to $500 million, appeared at the CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas, where “Ramayana” posters were displayed alongside promotions for Hollywood’s upcoming releases.<\/p>\n
The first movie will be released in India and the United States on November 8 to coincide with Diwali, the Hindu “festival of lights.” The \u200csecond will come out in 2027.<\/p>\n
Producer Namit \u200bMalhotra said the film would mix elements \u200bof fantasy and human drama \u200bfrom movies such as “The Lord of the Rings” and “Gladiator.”<\/p>\n
“It \u200cwill promise a very different \u200bexperience unlike anything traditionally \u200bthat, let’s say, Indian movies offer or even Hollywood for that matter,” Malhotra said. “It’s meant for the world and it’s got \u200bthe best of the \u200cEast and the best of the West coming together to \u200bmake it happen.”<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Rollo Ross in Las Vegas;Writing by \u200bLisa Richwine; Editing by Matthew Lewis)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Rollo Ross LAS VEGAS, April 17 (Reuters) – The filmmakers behind big-budget Hindu epic “Ramayana” are aiming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,188738,85,188737,15894,46,188736,34439,15741],"class_list":{"0":"post-397897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-global-audiences","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-indian-actor-yash","12":"tag-indian-movies","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-prince-rama","15":"tag-ramayana","16":"tag-ranbir-kapoor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}