Imon Sarkar

Moviemaniac,Rahmaniac,Bookworm...and Nolantard!

[Imon Sarkar @kinngsarkar]

In good times and in bad, I’ll be there for him. Will always be proud of him for not playing it safe and doing content movies like #MissionRaniganj #Skyforce and #KesariChapter2 even during his low phase. Once an Akkian, always an Akkian! #AkshayKumar @akshaykumar

[Luiz Fernando @Luiz_Fernando_J]

Epic #Ramayana crushes #Kalki2898AD’s entire run in just 9 days and becomes India’s 4th film in HISTORY to cross the 20M mark at US #BoxOffice!
Indian blockbuster #RamayanaRiseOfALegend, starring #RanbirKapoor & #YASH, grossed STRONG 1.4M on BIGGEST 2nd FRI EVER for Indian flicks,
Incredible legs for international films, just a -41.2% drop from first FRI, over just 1.433 theatres

It hits a $20M cume in the US, beating mega hit #Kalki’s 18.3M entire US run as the #4 highest grossing Indian film of ALL TIME in the U.S.

Eyeing a 5M-6M 2nd 3-day weekend & a 44%-33% drop

[Imon Sarkar @kinngsarkar]

@arr_karim Amazing! ❤️

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

Actors from Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayana commenting on the new film with the entitlement as if they are actual avatars.

[Imon Sarkar @kinngsarkar]

@kskannan22 Yes that would have made it even better

[Imon Sarkar @kinngsarkar]

The best part of the serene #JaiJaiRam song. Glad that I stayed back even after the #HanumanChalisa and got to listen to this on the big screen. Please stay back during the credits and enjoy this gem of a song! #Ramayana

[closed account.🫂 @ASFAN__MAKKAR]

This part of Jai Jai Ram by Arijit Singh, Shreya , Ar Rahman & Kumar Vishwas sounds so divine 🫰🏻❤️

#RamayanaMovie

[Imon Sarkar @kinngsarkar]

“Ghar aya re sang laya re
Raghukul ka abhimaan
Ghar aya re var laya re
Mithila ka samman…”

This part of #JudiJodi hits different! Absolute magic by @arrahman and @DrKumarVishwas! Also loved how the song actually begins with this part in the movie. #Ramayana ❤️

[Imon Sarkar @kinngsarkar]

Shri Ram takes a few steps back…stops…takes the bow out and strings it…closes his eyes…”Dharti Hai Ambar Hai” begins… #Ramayana @arrahman @HansZimmer #RanbirKapoor 🔥❤️🙏
Me and my boys inside theatre:

[somen mishra @somenmishra0]

#Ramayan mangal rang song is so sundar in the film. People were attacking faltoo me for obvious reason. I wish the entire song ws there. Blissful ekdum. Same for vanvas going bgm,ekdum feels wala,full emo. We have been watching such loud screaming stuff, can't digest any restrain

[Trollywood 𝕏 @TrollywoodX]

#Ramayana is reaching the Global stage going head to head with #GodzillaMinusZero. Kollywood can be proud as ARR and Sai Pallavi are part of the mighty success.

[Imon Sarkar @kinngsarkar]

@RahulKh38202787 Yes exactly! Blind hatred.

[Imon Sarkar @kinngsarkar]

Anyone who thinks the songs of #Ramayana are bad are just blinded by religious hatred! We have not had melodies like #MangalRang and #JudiJodi in recent times in Bollywood and the songs sound equally blissful in all languages. #RavanaTandav is electric and #JaiJaiRam is a beauty!

[Imon Sarkar @kinngsarkar]

#Ramayana theatre experience was made even more majestic by the outstanding score! ARR and Zimmer deliver rousing BGM that elevates major scenes. And @arrahman what a beauty of a soundtrack you have created- #MangalRang, #JudiJodi #JaiJaiRam. Magnificent ❤️

[Imon Sarkar @kinngsarkar]

@proteanhindoo It’s absolutely serene! The hatred is obviously targeted at the composer! Sad!

[Kalinga Arya @KalingaArya]

It just need a Druv Rathee or some leftist reviewer like Anupama Chopra abusing and calling to not watch Ramayana movie. Only in that case the Indian right wing would have united to watch it. That is what Indian RW is. A bunch of reactionaries only who feel whole world is conspiring against them and almost always lack long term vision.

[ਜਤਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ @Itsjat32]

#Ramayana

Mangal Rang
Sita's Aspiration
Jai Jai Ram
Hanuman Chalisa
Ravan Tandav
Judi Jodi

Superb album.

[Big Boss🔁 @Trollgamous]

Saindhu x mangalavanname ❤️ 😍

[Luiz Fernando @Luiz_Fernando_J]

Just watched India’s new Epic #Ramayana directed by #NiteshTiwari, finally in its original Hindi version.

And yeah, #RamayanaRiseOfALegend is both anime come to life (if you ever watched #SHURATO, get ready!!!) and a classic EPIC with capital letters, like those magnificent Hollywood gems of the 50s & 60s, with that grandeur, lavishness & sheer scale, made with today’s technology which allowed it to go the extra mile technically impossible to pull off back in the day.

To me, it felt like a full circle. Curiously, it wasn’t India, but Japan which prepared me to enjoy this story as much as I did. As a child, anime #SaintSeiya made me fall in love with Greek mythology, and because of that anime, I was presented with another mythology based anime #SHURATO, which introduced me to the rich Hindu mythology and the fascinating conflicts between the divine people of Deva and the Asuras. Watching this film made me go back to my childhood in a sense.

#Ramayana itself follows the exact same narrative & visual structure of a classic shonen anime, abusing of slow motion, larger than life battles, color, loud, incredible scores, lots of drama, fantastic beings, an underdog which ends up corrupted by manipulative parents to become a badass, overpowered demigod nemesis blinded by rage and thirst for revenge, pitted against a virtuous, righteous hero, which happens to be chosen as an avatar of an ancient God. And as in an anime, both will face several challenges before actually facing each other, because their face off is the end game. And obviously, the virtuous hero has an even more virtuous girl who becomes the plot device which will finally force the eminent future showdown.

So if you love anime, and if you love anime structure, there is no way you won’t be at least entertained by 3h15min of one of the most well realised “anime to live-action adaptation” wannabe.

And if like #Dune, #StarWars, #GameOfThrones, #LordOfTheRings or even #TheOdyssey, so much here shall feel familiar to you. The legend of Prince Rama is so ancient, with all its kingdoms, celestial & hellish worlds, and well defined characters, that basically every western epic, mythology or fantasy has borrowed - or straight up stolen - elements from it. There are iconic scenes of #ChristopherNolan’s #TheOdyssey for instance that you’ll see also here almost shot by shot, only difference being #Ramayana does it more colourfully and with Prince Rama instead of Odysseus.

The visuals are incredible, apart from the CGI giants and monsters which look awful, specially their faces. They really look like late 2000’s videogame creatures, taking you out of the movie everytime they show up, specially when they talk. Which is funny because there are other VFX creatures and sceneries which look insane, such as the vulture #Jatayu. I really couldn’t understand why the giants and orcs-like guys looked so off, while everything else, even in a same scene, looked spotless.

And as I said before, #Ramayana has an anime-series structure, not the traditional Hollywood 3-arc film structure in which things get progressively bigger. Most of the spectacle in the film are concentrated at the beginning, then it gives space for more drama as it progresses. And the way the film ends is literally anime-like cliffhanger for next season/saga, not a typical closure. So for a casual moviegoer, it might feel like the film ends smaller, instead of in a higher note than when it started. Or they might feel like it drags on its 2nd half, which has less epicness / lavishness than the first. It might be an uneven experience for first timers or for who has the Hollywood structure as a dogma.

But to me, #Ramayana felt like a homecoming somehow, in which so many of cultural niche things I love came together like the heroes in the end of #AvengersEndgame. India never left the historical/legend EPIC genre behind, and #Ramayana shows how far we can now go with them.

#Ramayana is already in theatres worldwide.

[Imon Sarkar @kinngsarkar]

@TheCineprism Why should they apologise for your shitty taste in music?

[Agnivo Niyogi (অগ্নিভ নিয়োগী) @Aagan86]

The end credits of #Ramayana is a tight slap on every Sanghi who accused @arrahman of sufi-fication of the epic. The entire nation owes him an apology

[Imon Sarkar @kinngsarkar]

@sidhuwrites Director is Nitesh Tiwari, not Namit Malhotra!