Sai Pallavi cried on Ramayana set as coach touched her feet
Sai Pallavi recalls the emotional moment her dialect coach touched her feet after a Sita scene in Nitesh Tiwari's Ramayana, which has crossed ₹1000 crore.
Sai Pallavi has offered a rare look at the emotional weight of playing a revered mythological figure. In a recent interview, the actor recalled breaking down on the sets of Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana after her dialect coach touched her feet following a Sita scene. She described the moment as “a bit overwhelmed” — less about the gesture itself, and more about what it revealed about the character she is playing.
The conversation, with content creator Pallavi Raj, centred on how it feels to embody a figure people worship. Sai Pallavi explained that the coach had spent the day watching her make phone calls and get ready as herself. Yet after the scene, the coach was responding to Sita.
The moment that moved her
“The moment when I was a bit overwhelmed was when my dialect coach, she actually touched my feet after a scene,” Sai Pallavi said. The coach, she noted, knows she is Sai Pallavi. But when a character is worshipped every day, and someone embodies it with the connection of a mother, the love can come before anything else.
For Sai Pallavi, the emotion arrived instantly. “Even before she started to cry, I started to cry,” she recalled, adding that she asked the coach, “What are you even doing?” It was, she said, a humbling reminder that the character speaks to far more people than the actor alone.
Her approach to playing Sita
Sai Pallavi has been candid about not wanting to over-intellectualise the role. During an appearance on Kaun Banega Crorepati alongside Ravi Dubey and Ranbir Kapoor, she said she chose not to use her head this time. Rather than asking what she could give Sita, she asked what knowledge she could gain from playing the role. She said she prayed to Sita Maa and went forward without imposing her usual process.
The film at a glance
- Film: Ramayana
- Director: Nitesh Tiwari
- Cast: Ranbir Kapoor as Lord Rama, Sai Pallavi as Sita, Yash as Ravana
- Producers: Namit Malhotra and Yash
- Box office: Crossed ₹1000 crore worldwide
Why this resonates
Mythological films in India are not just big-budget spectacles; they carry belief systems into the theatre. For an actor, that changes the relationship with the crew as much as with the public. A dialect coach is one of the closest observers on set, and her reaction became a quiet piece of evidence of how deeply these characters are held.
The moment also speaks to why Ramayana has connected. It is not only a star-driven epic; it is a story that collaborators and audiences carry personally. Sai Pallavi’s response — crying before the coach did — shows that the exchange was never about hierarchy. It was about devotion, and the strange task of carrying that devotion for a camera.
For fans, the anecdote adds a new layer to the film’s success. It suggests that the set itself was not simply manufacturing a blockbuster, but negotiating the meaning of Sita for the people making it.
Source: Hindustan Times
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