The Ramayana is headed to theaters this fall, with Sony placing a Nov. 6 launch date on the challenge.
Sony has international rights, excluding India, the place Ramayana producer Prime Focus Studios will deal with distribution. The movie will get a launch in a number of languages catered to native markets all over the world.
The Ramayana is one in every of humanity’s oldest tales, an epic poem that facilities on prince Rama, who spends years in exile and whose spouse, Sita, is kidnapped by the demon king Ravana.
Filmmaker Nitesh Tiwari is behind the challenge. The Ramayana stars Ranbir Kapoor, Yash and Sai Pallavi.
Oscar winners Hans Zimmer and A.R. Rahman present music, whereas it additionally has motion choreography by Terry Notary and Man Norris and manufacturing design by Ramsey Avery and Ravi Bansal.
Prime Focus Studios’ Namit Malhotra produces the movie. He is named the founding father of the visible results firm DNEG, which has credit together with the Denis Villeneuve Dune movies and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Interstellar and Tenet.
“For generations, the Ramayana has impressed individuals by way of its timeless humanity and enduring values. Our ambition has all the time been to honor that legacy whereas making a cinematic expertise worthy of audiences in all places,” stated Malhotra in an announcement in July when information broke that Sony would distribute the movie.
The Ramayana will arrive in theaters months after one other traditional epic, The Odyssey, was successful in theaters. The Nolan movie primarily based on the Greek epic has topped $1.55 billion globally.
