Ramayana: Part 1 Review Round-Up | A Grand Epic Divides Critics, Grosses ₹221.05 Crore Worldwide in Two Days

Sai Pallavi as Sita, Ranbir Kapoor as Ram and Ravie Dubey as Lakshman, from left, in a promotional still from Ramayana: Part 1. Image via X

Ranbir Kapoor, Sai Pallavi and Yash lead Nitesh Tiwari’s two-part adaptation. By Saturday afternoon, Bollywood Hungama’s live tracker put the film’s India net collection at ₹121.50 crore.

Key Highlights

• Ramayana: Part 1 opened in cinemas on 5 November 2026. Nitesh Tiwari directed the film, and Namit Malhotra is a producer.
• Sacnilk estimated a ₹221.05 crore worldwide gross through Friday, comprising ₹134.80 crore from India and ₹86.25 crore from overseas markets.
• Bollywood Hungama’s Saturday-afternoon live snapshot showed ₹13.19 crore for Day 3 and ₹121.50 crore India net overall. The Saturday figure was provisional.

Mumbai: Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana: Part 1 has drawn sharply different responses from critics in its opening weekend. The Hindi epic stars Ranbir Kapoor as Ram, Sai Pallavi as Sita and Yash as Ravana. Reviewers broadly agreed on the scale of the production. They differed on whether that scale deepens the drama or draws attention away from it.

Where the Spectacle Works

The Jatayu sequence offers a way into that debate. Hindustan Times singled it out as a highlight while praising the performances and finding the first half slow. Jatayu’s attempt to stop Ravana from carrying Sita away gives the action a clear emotional purpose. For an audience that already knows how the encounter ends, the scene depends on making the cost of his choice felt.

The forest scenes posed a different problem for Mint, whose review found the digitally rendered surroundings so polished that they lost their sense of place. Rediff likewise felt that the action received more attention than the relationships. That matters particularly in the exile passages, where the journey’s emotional weight comes from what Ram, Sita and Lakshman have left behind and how they live together after leaving Ayodhya.

The most revealing difference between the reviews is how they judge the film’s quieter stretches. A leisurely opening can give the audience time to understand what exile costs the characters. When the settings command more attention than the people moving through them, that same pace can make the film feel distant. This is a review round-up based on published criticism.

Box Office Through Saturday Afternoon

The latest worldwide figure available in these reports covers the first two days. Bollywood Hungama’s Saturday update covers India only and uses a separate tally. Both sets of figures cover the film across languages.