It takes a special kind of "creativity" to miscast the principal characters of the Ramayana so completely. One wonders whether the filmmakers ever opened the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa before deciding how Rāma and Sītā should look.
Vālmīki doesn't leave their appearance to imagination. From head to toe, he describes them in remarkable detail, in perfect harmony with Samudrika Lakshana. Yet we are served a Sītā who bears little resemblance to that description. There is no mention of a nose ring in the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa. Sītā did not wear a modern blouse but a different style of upper garment. She is described as radiant, graceful, healthy, and possessing exquisitely proportioned features, including a sharp, beautiful nose—not someone who looks more like a palace maid than the princess of Mithilā.
Ironically, more effort seems to have gone into ignoring the original text than into faithfully representing it.
For readers who want to know how Vālmīki actually described Rāma, Sītā, and other characters—not how modern filmmakers imagine them—I have documented these descriptions in detail, with textual references, in my book Ramayana 5114 BCE: Decoding the Date and Myths. Sometimes, the original is far more compelling than cinematic "creativity."
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They should make India���s version of Succession, premise should be who takes over TRS post KCR between KTR and Kavitha but Harish Rao comes out of box