Badshah: ₹4000-crore Ramayana’s Jatayu scene made him cry
Badshah’s early review of Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana praises the Jatayu scene, the background score, and the cast as the film heads to 70,000 screens worldwide.
Ramayana opens in cinemas on November 5, 2026, but the first public reactions are already building the kind of buzz money cannot buy. Singer and music composer Badshah caught a special Mumbai screening and shared a review that reads like a fan diary as much as a verdict.
Badshah’s early verdict
Responding to an X user who said the rave reviews had left them excited, Badshah kept it simple: “You have to watch it.” He credited producer Namit Malhotra for delivering, then turned to the craft. “Every frame is breathtaking,” he wrote, adding that the film “made me cry, even when we’ve known the story since our childhood.”
Badshah reserved special praise for the Jatayu sequence, calling it “insane”, and told fans to wait for the “dharti amber theme” moment. The cast got a full roll call from Ranbir Kapoor’s Lord Rama and Sai Pallavi’s Sita to Yash as Ravana, Ravi Dubey, Lara Dutta, Arun Govil and Rakul. “Everyone nailed it,” he said.
Why the release is a milestone
This is not a regular Friday opener. Ramayana has a reported budget of ₹4,000 crore, placing it among the most expensive film productions in the world. The VFX is being handled by DNEG, the eight-time Oscar-winning studio. For its global release, the makers have teamed with Sony Pictures to open the film across 70,000 screens, the widest release any Indian film has received.
The first part arrives in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. The second part is planned for Diwali 2027.
What to keep an ear and eye out for
- The Jatayu scene, which Badshah calls the standout “insane” moment
- The “dharti amber theme”, a BGM beat he says deserves an applause break
- A mythology retelling that producer Namit Malhotra is pitching next to Avatar, Avengers and The Odyssey
Malhotra has already answered the obvious question: why retell a story India knows by heart? “We’re putting Ramayana right up there next to all of those spectacles,” he told PTI, framing the film as India’s first true equivalent of a Hollywood blockbuster.
Why this matters for fans
Early word from a music insider matters because Badshah is not paid to nitpick pacing or plot; he is reacting to scale, sound and feeling. His line about the background score is a clear cue for anyone who treats movie music as a character in itself. If the emotional beats land on a story this familiar, the film’s real test is whether the spectacle can justify its enormous canvas.
The best way to judge that is on the biggest screen you can find this week.
Source: Hindustan Times
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