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Sempat terintimidasi durasi panjangnya, ternyata Ramayana: Rise of a Legend ini, wow... definisi sesungguhnya "ABSOLUTE CINEMA" ya. 3 jam lebih sama sekali nggak berasa!
Ini tontonan epik yg tak semata pamer visual super megah yg membuktikan sudah sejauh mana perfilman India. Tapi elemen aksinya pun seru mendebarkan, world buildingnya detil yg memberi gambaran sebesar apa pertaruhannya & narasi yg mengulik intrik kerajaan, ego penguasa hingga kepahlawanan pun mampu bikin gregetan, emosional sekaligus mudah diikuti buat mereka yg nggak familiar dengan cerita Ramayana.
Banyak momen yg membuatku merinding apalagi saat diiringi skoring akbar gubahan Hans Zimmer serta A. R. Rahman, tak sedikit pula yg membuat mataku berkaca-kaca entah karena situasi pilu atau semata kagum.
If anyone has read the Bible it is clear that Jews were polytheistic with a steady march towards monotheism.
Unless you are a fanatic, this represents loss of societies entropy and capacity to hold collective knowledge that would impact the limits of our intellectual creativity. It is not an accident that India was the most creative civilisation of the ancient world without whose advancements we would not have modernity. Further progress of humanity requires an India renaissance.
West and its Christian society has reached its limits. Islam reached it very soon after its formation and needs to parasite others to survive.
Communal riots were not an exclusive Hindu thing. It was mostly initiated by Muslim gangs against Hindus and other Muslim minority sects. RSS was founded to counter Islamist violence.
After the emergence of Hindu nationalism, communal riots have come down quantitatively.
Check who initiated partition riots or how Godhra violence started. Who initiated them.
And check the number of riots in India over the years, From before Modi government and after. “Hindu nationalists” have nearly ended communal riots.
Facts and numbers speak for themselves. @grok
why is the global left pro-islam vs. anti-hindu? i think islam is seen as an anti-american/imperialist force. the connections go back to connections btwn arab revolutionary movements in the 70s and the left/soviets.
hindu nationalism is a conservative intra-national force
@OmarAbbasHyat@AbdulElSayed@SamuelZHamilton I didn’t expect him to say this. It is the Aid that keeps Pakiststans cancerous military junta running. Or it should have collapsed under its weight.
@ADiTyEAH007@RGVzoomin You are missing the point. A great story requires a great villain. It is the blend of devotion, greatness and human failings in Ravan that makes Ramayana great. Without Ravana’s greatness, Ram does not get the contrast needed.
“He does not play a villain. He plays a man who has earned his power through penance, intelligence, and a refusal to bow .. The backstory the trauma, the devotion to Shiva, the ambition that becomes a prison “
-RGV
Dhurandhar, Ramayana. Future of Indian cinema is bright. I want to see Civikacintamani on big screen.
Watched #Ramayana for the 2nd time and incidentally I am an atheist and so this analysis is from a film watcher and not as a ram bhakt
While other reviews grudgingly note its scale and then hedge with “but the soul is missing” or “music could be better ,” etc , what they are missing is that the soul is in the scale and the emotion is in the humongous ambition of all the wonderfully talented people behind the making of this film
@NiteshTiwari22 and @NamitMalhotra have achieved what no one in Indian cinema never even dreamt of.. They have taken the devotional Juice from a well known epic and placed it on a canvas that made me as a viewer feel , the greatest Hollywood films as stage plays.
The opening cosmic battle, Ravana’s ten heads materialising not as a gimmick but as a living expression of knowledge and internal conflicts, the forests that feel more creature like themselves than the creatures they host , and standing high above all the breath stopping climactic Jatayu sequence … these are not mere Vfx effects. They are actually galactic events of the future brightness of Indian cinematic cosmos
This is Namit Malhotra’s slap on the faces and a kick in the crotches of Bollywoodians to wake them up from their lazy slumberness to show them what all is possible it there’s a will
@TheNameisYash ‘s Ravana is not a performance of the year, but it is of many decades .. I say that because I simply can’t remember anything I ever saw with his kind of a electrifying effect ever since I started watching cinema
He does not play a villain. He plays a man who has earned his power through penance, intelligence, and a refusal to bow .. The backstory the trauma, the devotion to Shiva, the ambition that becomes a prison , brilliantly written by #SridharRaghavan has been enacted with a combination of both a crystal clear clarity along with a monstrous force of reaching far beyond an objective destination so colourfully displayed with magnetic precision when he intrinsically ponders with his ten heads before taking the decision of kidnapping Sita ..
Every review that calls him the show stealer is correct, but what they missed is the larger picture that his portrayal made Ravana look like the gravitational centre of Rama
In short there’s no Rama without Ravana
Ranbir Kapoor’s Ram is the necessary counterweight against the worldly evils which anyway was the whole point of his godly status
Critics who wanted constant emoting from Ranbir saying he’s got same expression throughout are flmissing the point that Ram is defined by what he withholds and not by what he expresses
His quiet acceptance of the exile, his controlled violence in the forest sequences, his stillness that so wonderfully contained an absolute certainty is the hardest thing to play for an actor because when he finally acts , it’s not his arrows alone which find their mark , but more than that its his principles which pierce
What I loved about @HansZimmer and @arrahman is that they did not compete with the imagery but they rather flowed with it. The score does not try to reinvent devotion. It just amplifies the existing mass of the specific emotion and more importantly pin points the choices of its characters .. Songs that feel “functional” to some critics are doing the correct job because they do not interrupt the momentum of a three hour epic that is slowly building towards a confrontation
The Tandav energy and the aerial combat cues strike hard with a never before seen or experienced force.
In a film this large, restraint in the music is not a lay back , but It is a volatile high energy concoction of discipline and strategy
In my not so humble opinion what the negative reviews state as problems are actually the film’s real strengths.
The so called length is very necessary because one cannot establish Ravana’s scale and then compress Ram’s exile into just a highlight reel without losing the predicament of an impending inevitability .
I love Tiwari because he refuses to cheapen the moral stakes and turn the story into a masala action drama and the result of that conviction of his is a film that can be watched by families , youngsters , Gen Z etc etc and still hit the front benchers of the small and tiny towns .
This is the first ever Indian film that can stand above each and every large scale international production with its head held high and with an immense pride .
That’s because it does not borrow the language of the Lord of the Rings or Avatar . Instead it takes inspirations to dig into its own rich Indian backyard with the greatest ever stories which have been waiting to be excavated
Reviews might have given 2,3,5 whatever starts but I feel It’s an insult to india and it’s cinema to review this film
The negative reviewers are looking at a mountain and complaining that the path is steep and uneven but that’s because they are too small in comparison to the garangutan architects who built this mountainous Taj Mahal of cinema
Ramayana: Part 1 is the opening statement of a new standard for Indian cinema and whatever film will be made after November 5 th will now be measured against it , and the only thing which will destroy Ramayana part 1 will be Ramayana part 2 🙏🙏🙏
@tuyenphan1004 India has many more epics.
Ramayana and Mahabharata are the Sanskrit epics.
Then there are five main epics in Tamizh.
Chilappathikaram, Manikekhala, Chivika Chintamani etc
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