After months of delays, a Comic-Con detour and a record-breaking music deal, the Ramayana trailer is finally here. Dropped at 4:15 AM IST during the Brahma Muhurat as promised, the 4-minute-9-second trailer delivers exactly the scale fans were promised, and then some.
Ramayana Trailer Review:
First Impressions: This Looks Like An Event
The trailer opens with Yash’s Ravana declaring dominion over the three worlds, and from there it doesn’t let up.
Sweeping shots of Ayodhya and Lanka, large-scale battle sequences, mythical creatures, and the Pushpak Vimaan all get their moment, building toward Rama’s vow to defeat Ravana at the close.
The VFX has clearly taken a leap forward from earlier teasers, with a polish that feels genuinely comparable to major international productions rather than a domestic mythological attempt trying to punch above its weight.
Yash Owns The Trailer
If there’s one clear takeaway from early reactions, it’s this: Yash’s Ravana dominates every frame he’s in.
Commanding, magnetic and just the right side of menacing without tipping into caricature, his screen presence is being widely credited as the trailer’s biggest strength.
Ranbir Kapoor, by contrast, plays it quiet. His Rama leans on restraint and inner conviction rather than overt heroics, embodying the Maryada Purushottam ideal through composure rather than spectacle.
Some viewers have noted he gets comparatively less screen time than Ravana, but what’s there has landed well enough that fans have already coined the nickname “RAMbir.”
Sai Pallavi’s Sita gets limited screen time too, but her brief moments carry real warmth and quiet elegance.
The Detail Fans Can’t Stop Talking About
One casting choice conspicuously absent from the trailer: Sunny Deol as Hanuman doesn’t appear at all.
Given how much buzz that casting generated when it was first announced, the omission has become one of the biggest talking points online, with fans speculating whether his reveal is being saved for later in Part 1 or held back entirely for Part 2.
What’s Working, And What Isn’t Landing:
The trailer’s strengths are fairly clear: genuine scale, emotional beats woven into the action, and a score from Hans Zimmer and A.R. Rahman that’s already being called a highlight even in a short trailer cut.
On the flip side, a handful of creature and CGI moments are still drawing mild skepticism, though nowhere near the level of criticism earlier mythological attempts have faced.
A section of viewers also feels the trailer leans more cinematic-spectacle than spiritual-simplicity, missing some of the devotional tone associated with classic television adaptations, and Ravana’s larger-than-life framing has sparked some debate about how the character is being positioned.
How The Internet Is Reacting
The overall response has skewed strongly positive, with plenty of fans calling it a potential all-time great for Indian mythological cinema and a clear step up from previous attempts in the genre.
Ranbir Kapoor is the greatest actor of this generation and no one even comes close 🤍 pic.twitter.com/QgSu9UedaX
— 𝐉𝐨𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐞 (@jod_insane) July 30, 2026
The Hanuman absence and a desire for more emotional depth are the main points of pushback, but they’re a minority voice against an otherwise enthusiastic reception.
The Bottom Line
This trailer had an enormous amount riding on it, given the record-breaking deals, the Sony Pictures global distribution tie-up, and a reported combined budget nearing Rs 3,000 crore across both parts.
On first impressions, it delivers on scale and spectacle while still finding room for genuine performances underneath the VFX.
Whether the full film can sustain that balance across a complete runtime is the real test still to come, but as a first look, it’s done exactly what a trailer is supposed to do: leave people counting down to Diwali.
Ramayana: Part 1 releases in cinemas this Diwali 2026, with Part 2 following in 2027.
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