{"id":589437,"date":"2026-08-19T11:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/589437\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:56:11","slug":"mythical-beasts-almighty-gods-new-technology-the-epic-blockbuster-that-could-be-indias-answer-to-the-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/589437\/","title":{"rendered":"Mythical beasts, almighty gods, new technology: The epic blockbuster that could be India&#8217;s answer to The Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">As evidenced by the titles in the trailer and on all the posters for the first film, this is &#8220;Namit Malhotra&#8217;s Ramayana&#8221;, a visually splendid epic that places Malhotra&#8217;s expertise in visual effects front and centre. The son of a Bollywood producer and grandson of a cinematographer, Malhotra started a VFX company \u2013 now known as Double Negative, or DNEG \u2013 in his dad&#8217;s garage in Mumbai aged 19. The company has since worked on many films \u2013 including Blade Runner 2049, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/article\/20230719-a-magnificent-story-of-a-tragic-american-genius\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oppenheimer<\/a>, all three <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/article\/20240221-dune-part-two-review-denis-villeneuves-science-fiction-sequel-is-jaw-droppingly-weird\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dune films<\/a>, and, yes, The Odyssey itself \u2013 and won a total of eight Oscars.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As evidenced by the titles in the trailer and on all the posters for the first film, this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":["post-589437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589437","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=589437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}