Ramayana review: Ranbir Kapoor impresses, but Yash steals the show

“Ramayana review: Ranbir Kapoor impresses, but Yash steals the show”

Somewhere between admiring the sheer ambition of Ramayana and wondering when it would finally get to the point, I realised I was having two equally strong reactions: this is magnificent, and this needs an editor with considerably less patience. Nitesh Tiwari’s epic gives a story many of us grew up watching on Doordarshan the full cinematic royal treatment. The world-building is impressive, the cinematography spectacular, and the scale frequently breathtaking. It also takes its own sweet time…