Filmmaker Takes A Dig At Ranbir Kapoor's Ramayana For Rs 4000 Crore Budget? Find Out
Even though the filmmaker did not mention Ranbir Kapoor or Ramayana in his post, the timing of his note left everyone wondering if he was slamming the much-awaited movie.
Amid reports that Ranbir Kapoor's Ramayana has a budget of Rs 4000 crore, it looks like filmmaker Sanjay Gupta has taken a dig at the makers. Recently, Gupta took to his X handle and mentioned that even though big Hollywood films like Avatar and Dune also had massive budgets, they never spoke about it and let their work do the talking.
'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," he wrote.
Even though Gupta did not mention Ranbir Kapoor or Ramayana in his post, the timing of his note left everyone wondering if he was slamming the much-awaited movie on the Hindu mythological epic.
Ramayana Has A Budget Of Rs 4000 Crore?
With a massive all-star lineup featuring Ranbir Kapoor, Yash, Amitabh Bachchan, Sai Pallavi, Sunny Deol, and more, Nitesh Tiwari directorial has officially claimed the title of the most expensive Indian film ever, with a combined budget of around Rs 4,000 crore (about $500 million).
Recently, the producer of the movie, Namit Malhotra, opened up about funding the project when he told Prakhar Gupta on his podcast, 'We're funding it ourselves. We're not taking anybody's money."
He admitted that when the idea took shape six or seven years ago, shortly after the pandemic, many thought it was pure madness. '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."
Directed by Nitesh Tiwari and produced by Namit Malhotra's Prime Focus Studios along with the 8-time Oscar-winning VFX studio DNEG, in association with Yash's Monster Mind Creations, Ramayana is being filmed for IMAX and will be released worldwide in two parts: Part 1 in Diwali 2026 and Part 2 in Diwali 2027.
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