Ramayana Film Turns Ravana Into A Marxist Messiah, Undermining Its Own Spectacle And Reverence
The first part of the new Ramayana film is visually grand and largely reverential towards Sri Rama and Maa Sita, but it recasts Ravana as a Marxist revolutionary freeing the masses from capitalist Devas, with Kubera as Lanka’s exploitative ruler. Ravana kills a brother-in-law who molests a maid and turns Rakshasa to please his mother, while Maa Sita’s abduction becomes revenge for Surpanakha’s mutilation, hiding the lust Valmiki’s text makes plain. The film also ignores that Kubera was his half-brother, writes Utpal Kumar in Firstpost.
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- 13 Nov 2026
- OurVoice
