'Barking Street Dogs': Ram Gopal Varma Slams Ramayana Critics While Praising Ranbir Kapoor's Film

Ram Gopal Varma praises Ranbir Kapoor's Ramayana, calling it a 'devotional force' and slamming the film's critics as 'barking street dogs' in a fiery post.

Ramayana is ruling hearts, and people are praising the Ranbir Kapoor-starrer. Now, Ram Gopal Varma has also reviewed the Nitesh Tiwari-directed mythological epic. Taking to his social media, RGV shared his thoughts on Ramayana, calling it a great film while referring to people criticising it as ‘barking street dogs’.

“The #Ramayana is not a devotional film. It is a devotional force. The hero is not a blue god floating above the story. He is a man who has already seen the end of the world and still willfully chooses to walk into it. The rise is not of a kingdom. It is of a mind that challenges weakness. Every frame carries the weight of someone who has burned the old rules and is now moving only by the logic of power. The violence is not spectacle. It is the clarity of consequences. What separates this from every other cinematic telling is that, in a time when most films are still wary to move, this one simply moves. It does not explain itself. That is why it hits harder than anything that has come before it. You do not leave the film having watched a story. You leave it after living an experience," he wrote about the film.

RGV further continued and added, “Ranbir, in the sequence after Sita’s abduction, when he stands in the empty ashram and simply looks at the place where she was, the camera holds long enough to show that grief has already been converted into an arithmetic. Yash does not play opposition. He plays the mind that has already accepted what it decided to destroy. In the long confrontation before the final night, when he speaks to Ram across the open ground with no army between them, he does not raise his voice. He simply states the price. The face never flinches. The body never shifts. @AnupamPkher, in Jatayu’s interception of the Pushpak, is not performing an act of mere loyalty. Wings half broken, bloodied, he keeps on coming because the mind has not yet accepted what the body is telling it. When he falls, the camera stays on the face. There is no cry. There is only the last argument continuing behind the eyes after his wings have stopped. That is not sacrifice. That is a man who understood the only rule left is to continue until you cannot."