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Where did Ramayana spend Rs 4000 cr budget? Ranbir Kapoor’s de-ageing or copycat rakshasas

The VFX effects are what you’d expect from a run-of-the-mill video game or a mediocre fantasy show. But a film that supposedly cost thousands of crores? The audience deserves more.

Where did the money go? That’s what everyone seems to be asking after the teaser for Namit Malhotra’s Ramayana—directed by Nitesh Tiwari—was released Thursday morning. Is the Rs 4,000 crore figure just a marketing gimmick? Is it a scheme to ‘turn black money white’? Neither Reddit nor X can figure it out, and for good reason.

The three rakshasas (monsters) featured in the teaser look like they’ve been airdropped from a Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones set. One, featured in a snowscape fight scene, looks like a scantily clad version of Wun Wun from Game of Thrones. And the scene is a carbon copy of the legendary confrontation between dragon-riding Daenerys Targaryen and the Night King.

Another monster, set in a haunted woods backdrop, must be a cousin of the ogres from one of The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit films. And the third one, shown chasing........

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