Adipurush

Om Raut's version of 'Ramayana' will be a series of clunky computer graphics, bathed in Bollywoodese. This beloved epic turned into an actioner reduces it to a two dimensional barrage of little feeling.

Adipurush, a bloated and vacuous cinematic version of a part of the Ramayana, does the epic or its civilisation-defining characters no justice at all. The ambition is mammoth but the imagination that the makers of Adipurush bring to the table is no bigger than the size of the computer screens that have been used to give the film its final shape. Adipurush is full of magic and miracles, but no trick that it rustles up over the three hours that it takes to peddle its wares can offset the consequences of the trivialisation of a great epic.

ADIPURUSH is a well-made entertainer with a big-screen appeal.

Adipurush is a sincere attempt that gets a tad overwhelmed by its ambition of handling a story of the Ramayana. Ramayana rides high on action over ethos in this super-heroic reboot.

Though Adipurush can be safely deemed as one of Om Raut's biggest works, the film could surely have called for a better visual package. However, it's a job that is moderately done. If not worse. All in all, we can't put a stamp on all the hype that Adipurush has been gathering, but it surely deserves one watch at the theatres. For Prabhas, if nothing else.

Cherry blossoms in Sri Lanka, Hanuman speaking Bombaiya, the mythical Sone Ki Lanka looking darkly Gothic, Raavan looking like a Bollywood dude... this is not modernisation. This is a travesty. The Ramayan is a part of our cultural DNA. It needed faith and humility for a film-maker to present it to a Gen Z audience, not the arrogance of a big budget spectacle and computer imagery.