Suhail Nayyar urges fans to back Ramayana’s young VFX artists

Ahead of the November 5 release of Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana, actor Suhail Nayyar is making an unusual request: celebrate the crew as loudly as the cast.

Nayyar, who plays Sugriva in the two-part adaptation, told India Today that the film’s visual effects pipeline is filled with young Indian artists — roughly 19 to 25 years old — doing intense, detail-heavy work that will be scrutinised by millions. His appeal is simple: judge the complete film, not the freeze-frames.

Blessings over pressure

To make the point, Nayyar reached for the country’s most emotional comparison. He said if India were playing a cricket World Cup final, fans would offer blessings rather than pile on expectations. ‘You don’t put pressure on them. It is wrong,’ he stated.

He also defended the project’s working culture. ‘The intentions of the people working on this project are really pure,’ he said, adding that the respectful atmosphere on set made him proud to be involved.

Why this appeal matters

Ramayana is not entering a forgiving market. Indian audiences have become far more aware of visual effects benchmarks after years of streaming exposure to global productions, and social media rewards a harsh freeze-frame almost more than a finished film. For an epic that depends on scale, every frame will be compared with the best work from Hollywood, Korea and beyond.

Yash has already set the same tone. At a recent pre-release event in Hyderabad, he asked fans not to nitpick the VFX and said Indian cinema should protect producers like Namit Malhotra, who is pushing local filmmaking onto a global stage. The two actors are framing this as a team effort: the cast may be the face of the project, but the visual effects artists are doing some of the heaviest lifting.

What makes the appeal different is where the spotlight sits. Usually pre-release conversations stick to stars, budgets and box-office math. Here, Nayyar is trying to widen the lens to the artists whose work is mostly invisible when it succeeds and unforgettable when it slips.

How to support the film — and the crew

• Reserve judgment until the full film. A trailer is a compressed sales pitch, not the theatrical experience.
• Credit the artists. When a shot lands, name the studio, supervisor and VFX team alongside the stars.
• Aim feedback forward. Specific criticism after release helps the next Indian VFX project more than pile-on posts.
• Remember it’s Part One. The first weekend will shape how the second part is finished and released.

Ramayana stars Ranbir Kapoor as Lord Rama, Sai Pallavi as Sita and Yash as Ravana. Part one opens in cinemas on November 5, 2026, with the second chapter to follow.

Source: Hindustan Times

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