Ramayana VFX row: Ranbir Kapoor, Sacred Games and Farzi artists say Marvel comparisons are unfair

Ranbir Kapoor and the VFX supervisors of Farzi and Sacred Games have strongly pushed back against online criticism of Ramayana’s visual effects. Check out what the artists said.

New Delhi: Ramayana’s visual effects have drawn heavy criticism online, and Ranbir Kapoor has come out in support of the crew behind them. He recently objected to viewers dismissing elaborate CGI as AI-generated, saying it feels terrible to see the artists’ hard work reduced to that label. According to him, thousands of artists work round the clock, and getting a single frame right takes days of manual effort.

VFX supervisors Vijesh Rajan and Yashoda Parthasarthy, whose credits include Sacred Games, Farzi and Gangs of Wasseypur, have now joined the conversation. Speaking to Hindustan Times, they criticised the trolling and explained how much work goes into making effects look photorealistic. They also echoed Yash, the film’s actor and co-producer, in saying that a project like Ramayana deserves support because........

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