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Mahesh Babu and SS Rajamouli's Varanasi has a sequence inspired by the Ramayana.

SS Rajamouli says a sequence of Varanasi is inspired by Ramayana: 'Mahesh Babu has charm of Krishna but calmness of Rama...'

November 16, 2025 12:10 pm

SS Rajamouli said he got goosebumps looking at Mahesh Babu dressed up as Lord Rama for the shoot of a key episode of their next fantasy film, Varanasi.

Sadhguru says films inspired by the Ramayana have been rudimentary: 'We have been hypnotised and brainwashed'

October 31, 2025 5:47 pm

Spiritual guru Sadhguru and producer Namit Malhotra talk about Nitesh Tiwari's upcoming Ramayana starring Ranbir Kapoor in the lead role.

Sadhguru expressed his surprise about actor Yash's casting as Ravana in Ramayana

Sadhguru asks Ramayana producer Namit Malhotra how a 'handsome man like Yash' was cast as villain Ravan: 'We needed a superstar-level person'

October 30, 2025 9:02 pm

Spiritual leader Sadhguru expressed his surprise about actor Yash's casting as Ravana in Ramayana. He said that while Yash is handsome, a villain is expected to have a 'blunt nose'.

Sadhguru gives blunt advice to Ranbir Kapoor on playing Lord Ram in Ramayana; admits he faces ‘unrealistic expectations’: 'Better transform yourself'

October 30, 2025 11:29 am

Sadhguru discussed how challenging it can be for Ranbir Kapoor to fulfill the 'unrealistic' expectations of people as he plays the lead role of Lord Ram in Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana.

Ramayana is touted as the most expensive Indian film project ever undertaken, and producer Namit Malhotra once revealed that the two-part saga would cost them about Rs 4,000 crore.

Vivek Oberoi says Rs 4,000 cr Ramayana films will be 'India's answer to Hollywood epics'; to donate his fee for playing Vibhishna

October 28, 2025 5:47 pm

Ramayana is touted as the most expensive Indian film project ever undertaken and producer Namit Malhotra once revealed that the two-part saga would cost them about Rs 4,000 crore.

P B Mehta writes: The loneliness of Ram and Gandhi

October 02, 2025 8:17 am

Both reached the same uncomfortable truth — the moral exemplar often stands outside the logic of power

Namit Malhotra's Ramayana stars Ranbir Kapoor as Rama.

Ramayan producer says actors asked him if he had funds to pull off Ramayan, pegged at Rs 4,000 cr: 'Even I don't know where money's coming from'

September 29, 2025 12:39 pm

Ramayana producer Namit Malhotra reiterates he doesn't know the final budget of Nitesh Tiwari's two-part adaptation of the Indian epic, starring Ranbir Kapoor as Rama, Sai Pallavi as Sita, and Yash as Ravana.

When Ramayana actor Ranbir Kapoor shared his secrets to staying healthy in his 40s: 'I have changed a lot in my lifestyle'

September 11, 2025 12:30 pm

Considering the video is doing the rounds on social media again, we asked an expert about how making such lifestyle measures in the 40s helps

Ramayana's Lakshman Ravi Dubey buys sea-facing apartment with wife Sargun Mehta

Ramayana's 'Lakshman' Ravi Dubey is now KL Rahul, Jackie Shroff's neighbour; welcomes Ganpati Bappa to sea-facing Mumbai apartment. Watch

August 28, 2025 1:12 pm

Ramayana's Lakshman Ravi Dubey has bought a sea-facing apartment with wife Sargun Mehta. They will not be neighbours to KL Rahul and Jackie Shroff.

Mukesh Khanna feels Ranbir Kapoor has to get rid of his Animal image to play Rama in Ramayana.

'Unsure if Ranbir Kapoor can pull off Ram's Maryada Purshottam image,' says Mukesh Khanna: 'Ramayana can't be made with Rs 1,000 cr budget, it needs...'

August 12, 2025 9:50 am

Mukesh Khanna feels Ranbir Kapoor will have to fight his Animal image if he wants to play Rama as Maryada Purshottam in Nitesh Tiwari's adaptation of Ramayana. "Rama doesn't climb trees and shoot arrows," argued the Shaktimaan actor.

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Looking back at Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayan

March 28, 2020 8:45 am

Before you get to experience the epic TV show from March 28, here are some posters and photos of Doordarshan's Ramayana to take you on a nostalgia ride.

The tattooed rebels: Chhattisgarh's Ramnamis fight caste with full-bodied 'Ram Ram' tattoos

January 13, 2016 9:10 am

The Ramnami Samaj is a religious movement founded by Scheduled Caste Ram devotees in the late 19th century in Chhattisgarh. Denied entry to temples and forced to use separate wells, these low-caste Hindus first tattooed their bodies and faces more than 100 years ago as an act of defiance and devotion.