If you really want to see how Ramayana can inspire great Superhero/SciFi film - Do watch #FlashMovie. There’s a not so subtle homage to Hanuman ji and in a true blue fashion.
We all know the story of Shriram realising that his time on Earth is over, but Hanuman’s Bhakti isn’t letting Yama reach him. To make Hanuman understand the multiverse and theory of time (that the time isn’t linear but cyclical and interconnected) Ram drops his ring to a crack and asks Hanuman to get it.
Hanuman reduced himself to the size of a beetle and entered the crack only to discover that it was no crack but the entrance to a tunnel that led to Nag Lok.
There Hanuman meets Vasuki, the king of serpents and informs him of his mission.
Vasuki takes Hanuman to the centre of Nag Lok where stands a mountain of rings! “There you will surely find Rama’s ring,” says Vasuki.
Hanuman wonders how he would do that as it’s like finding a needle in a haystack. But to his delight, the first ring that he picks up is Ram’s ring. Then he looks at the other ring and that’s identical too.
In fact all the rings that made up the mountain were identical.
Vasuki tells him, “This world we live in goes through cycles of life and death. Each life cycle of the world is called a kalpa. Each kalpa has four yugas or quarters. In the second quarter or Treta Yuga, Ram takes birth in Ayodhya. Then one day his ring falls into the subterranean realm of serpents through a tunnel.
A monkey follows it and Ram on earth dies. So it has been for hundreds of thousands of kalpas. All these rings testify to that fact. The mountain keeps growing as more rings fall. There is enough space for the rings of future Rams.”
Hanuman realises that his entry into Nag Lok and his encounter with the mountain of rings was no accident. It was Ram’s way of telling him that he could not stop death from coming.
This cyclical view of life is the essence of Sanatan thought.
In the film, right before we see this scene with the poster of Hanuman, Batfleck tells Barry - He shouldn’t mess with the timelines to save someone (very close to him) from Death. What happens next? Watch #TheFlash Image Courtesy @wbpictures @warnerbros@WarnerBrosIndia and @IndiaToday