Namit Malhotra’s Ramayana is unravelling itself by the day. The film has been in the news for its budget and scale, while also the cast and crew.
From having fanatic AR Rahman as the music director and a beef lover playing Lord Rama, it has been always in conversation among social media and film aficionados.
Was this a deliberate choice? Was it a wanton act to cash in on the Hindu wave while also insulting Hindus who come to watch the film?
Let us take a look at some such aspects of the film.
Beef Lover Ranbir Kapoor As Lord Rama
At the centre is Ranbir Kapoor, who plays Lord Rama.
During a 2011 interview while promoting Rockstar, Kapoor spoke about his family’s Peshawari roots and his food preferences. He said, “My family is from Peshawar, so a lot of Peshawari food has come with them. I am a mutton, paya, and beef fan. Yeah, I am a big beef fan.”
The remark resurfaced years later when Kapoor’s casting as Lord Rama was announced, triggering criticism on social media. The same statement had earlier led to protests outside Ujjain’s Mahakaleshwar Temple in 2022.
Now, Kapoor is set to portray the very deity whose name is inseparable from the cultural and religious imagination of millions of Hindus.
But the casting choices do not end there.
A Lord Rama Hater Woke Leftist Chinmayi Singing Jai Jai Ram
The Singer Who Called Rama A “Bad Husband”
Chinmayi Sripaada, who has now sung the Tamil version of Jai Jai Ram for Ramayana, has herself expressed immense hate against Lord Rama by commenting derogatorily over and over again over the years.
In January 2010, she wrote, “There cannot be a worse example for a husband than Lord Rama or even Lakshman for that matter.”
In another post that same month, she wrote, “Wonder what sort of a blessing it is when someone wishes that a girl should get a husband like Rama.”
And after dubbing for Sriramarajyam in 2011, she wrote, “Dubbed for Sriramarajyam in Tamizh. What an unfortunate life Sita had and what a bad husband Sri Rama turned out to be in the name of Dharma”
Then, in 2016, she wrote, “I actually respect Ravana in the Ramayana :)”
Yet in September 2026, the same Chinmayi announced, “Happy to share I have sung the Tamil Version of Jai Jai Ram in Ramayana for Rahman sir and Karthik Netha Sir’s lyrics.”
The contrast is difficult to miss: someone who publicly derogated Rama as a “bad husband” is now the voice singing Jai Jai Ram in a major cinematic retelling of his story. Irony died several deaths!
And Then There Is An Ugly, Pimply Faced Hindu Hater Sai Pallavi As Sita Devi
A Hindu hater and pimply faced ugly woman such as Sai Pallavi has been cast as Sita Devi who is known for her beauty in Valmiki Ramayana. This anti-Hindu, anti-army actress has her own share of controversial statements.
During promotions for Virata Parvam in 2022, Pallavi was asked about The Kashmir Files and the exodus and killings of Kashmiri Pandits. She compared the issue with an incident involving a Muslim man transporting cows who was allegedly beaten and forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram.”
She said, “The Kashmir Files showed how Kashmiri Pandits were killed at the time. If you are taking the issue as a religious conflict, recently a Muslim driver, who was transporting cows, was beaten up and forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram.’ So where’s the difference between these two incidents? We have to be good human beings. If we are good ones, we won’t hurt others. To answer your question, justice won’t be there either on the side of the right or the left, if you are not a good human being. I’m very neutral.”
Here’s #SaiPallavi‘s full video with English subtitles!
•She’s saying that Violence is a Wrong form of Communication
•She’s not included any religious things
•and she’s not saying anything wrong about army she’s saying about just perspective changes🙏🏻♥️
Hope y’all get it! https://t.co/rHHBsdvs8I pic.twitter.com/GgDWJlgGhd
— Sai Pallavi (@Sai_PallaviFans) October 25, 2024
Her ignorant comments were criticised by netizens including from members of the Kashmiri Hindu community, who called out her ridiculous comparison trivialising the scale and nature of their displacement and suffering. Pallavi later clarified that she did not intend to belittle the Kashmiri Pandit tragedy and said violence in any form was wrong. Too little, too late!
But that was not the only part of the interview that attracted attention.
Asked about her Naxalite character in Virata Parvam, Pallavi said, “It is an ideology. You might have an ideology but for me, violence is a wrong form of communication. I don’t think now that we can solve this only if we are violent. But at that time, they did not know how to express their problem to them. When there is a law, we have to see what is right and what is wrong. At that time, no one knows where to go. So, they formed a group for themselves, and their mindset is that they will only say what is right and what is wrong. We are not in that situation; it happened long back.”
She also said, “People in Pakistan think that our army is a terrorist. Because we are here, and they are harming us. For us, they are terrorists. So, the perspective changes.”
Yet she is now playing Sita Devi, the woman at the heart of one of Hindu civilisation’s most sacred narratives.
Her filmography tells its own story. Shyam Singha Roy (2021): a corrupt Brahmin pandit who views Devadasis as sex slaves and engages in paedophilic acts. Virata Parvam (2022): a woman who falls in love with a Naxalite because of his poetry and dedicates herself to the “cause.” Amaran (2024): a biopic of Major Mukund Varadarajan.
The same woman who could not distinguish between the Indian Army and terrorists starred in a soldier’s biopic.
Now, how much is her knowledge of Ramayana.
So there it is. A beef-loving Ranbir Kapoor playing Purushotthama – Lord Rama. A woke lefist Lord Rama hater Chinmayi who called Him a “bad husband” and said she respects Ravana, now singing Rama’s praises for a cheque. A Sai Pallavi who equated the genocide of Kashmiri Pandits with cow smugglers, who called the Indian Army terrorists from a Pakistani perspective, now draped as Sita—the very symbol of Hindu womanhood, of purity, of sacrifice.
This is not a Ramayana. This is a mockery. This is a spit on the faith of a billion Hindus, wrapped in a ₹5,000 crore bow. Namit Malhotra knows exactly what he is doing. He cast people who despise our gods, our army, our history—and then is selling you tickets to watch them play our deities.
And Hindus? We will line up. We will clap. We will share praises and reviews. We will make it a blockbuster. Because that is what Hindus do. We forgive. We forget. We get used. And then Hindus wonder why Bollywood keeps mocking them.
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