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This filmmaker takes a dig at Ranbir Kapoor-Sai Pallavi's 'Ramayana' Rs 4000 crore budget: 'Hollywood films like Matrix, Avatar never spoke about...'
Ever since the title glimpse of Ramayana featuring Ranbir Kapoor, Yash, Sai Pallavi, Ravie Dubey, and Sunny Deol among others has been released, the jaw-dropping visuals have created excitement among the audience.
While the world eagerly awaits the epic face-off between Ranbir Kapoor as Lord Rama & Yash's Ravana, the producer of Ramayana and the creative mind behind this humongous project shared that the combined budget of the two parts is Rs 4000 crore, which is about $500 million. While the Ramayana: Part 1 budget equals _Black Panther: Wakanda Forever_ and Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 3, it is also higher than _Superman_ ($225 million) and Jurassic World Rebirth ($180 million).
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Now, filmmaker Sanjay Gupta has tweeted- 'MATRIX, LORD OF THE RINGS, AVATAAR, DUNE, STARWARS, etc. All films with groundbreaking never seen before VFX. None spoke about it before the release. They let the work speak for itself.'
MATRIX, LORD OF THE RINGS, AVATAAR, DUNE, STARWARS, etc.
All films with groundbreaking never seen before VFX.
None spoke about it before the release.
They let the work speak for itself. — Sanjay Gupta (@_SanjayGupta) July 15, 2025
Namit Malhotra is the founder and non-executive director of Prime Focus Limited & DNEG, the VFX company behind masterpieces like Inception, Dune, and Interstellar and others.
'So, when we set out to make it, six, seven years ago, just after the pandemic, when we started to really get serious about mounting it and producing it, and budget-wise, it was like everybody thought I'm a lunatic. Because no Indian film, by a long distance, comes close to it. So, to put it simply, it'll be about $500 million by the time we're done, on both films put together, part one and part two, which is over Rs 4,000 crore,' said Namit while talking to Prakhar Gupta.
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