- Nitesh Tiwari's Ramayana teaser will release in one hour, shared by Alia Bhatt
- The film's budget is approximately Rs 4,000 crore, or $500 million for both parts
- AR Rahman and Hans Zimmer collaborated on the film's music for the first time
The much-awaited first look of Nitesh Tiwari's magnum opus Ramayana will drop in an hour.
Ahead of the teaser release, Alia Bhatt shared a video message on social media, confirming she will share it on her social media feed. She also asked audiences to support her husband Ranbir Kapoor's labour of love.
In the video message, Alia said, "The Ramayana unit is going to be out tomorrow. It is the unit called the Rama unit. I'm going to post it on my social media, so please go out there and support it. Ranbir has done such a beautiful job and I can't wait for you guys to see it. It's absolutely fabulous."
Meanwhile, director Ashwini Iyer Tiwari, wife of Nitesh Tiwari, shared a shout-out post for her husband.
She wrote, "I watched the teaser of Ramayana. It brought a deep sense of calm to my heart. My eyes welled up with emotion. It reminded me of a time when we used to talk endlessly about stories, and somewhere along the way, I fell in love with the storyteller. Today, I felt that same love again."
Budget
Ramayana has been made on a staggering budget of Rs 4,000 crore.
Speaking to Prakhar Gupta, producer Namit Malhotra revealed, "When we set out to make this six or seven years ago, people thought I was a lunatic because no Indian film comes close to this scale. Put simply, the budget will be around $500 million for both parts combined, which is over Rs 4,000 crore."
He added, "We're making the largest film in the world for the greatest epic that deserves to be seen globally. And yet, I believe we're doing it more efficiently than some of the biggest Hollywood films. We're not being irresponsible-we're being ambitious, but grounded."
Music
AR Rahman and Oscar-winning Hans Zimmer have collaborated on this project for the first time.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter India, Rahman discussed his high-profile collaboration: "It's terrifying for both of us. We're scoring something so iconic and so important to the world. So in the promo, I think he had a soundscape; then I took that and added the Sanskrit words at the end and everything. What's complicated is that we're taking something so epic, which every Indian knows, and we have to give them something new. We have to give something to the world-from India to the world."
The film is set to be released in two parts, with the first instalment scheduled to release worldwide in October 2026 ahead of Diwali, while the second part is slated for Diwali 2027.