Rajamouli’s Nod Raises the Stakes for Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana

The build-up to Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana just received a timely vote of confidence from SS Rajamouli, the director behind RRR. On 17 October, Rajamouli took to X to wish the team, and the post has quickly become part of the film’s growing buzz.

A myth-maker’s blessing

“Ramayana is a story every Indian storyteller grows up aspiring to tell.”

Rajamouli wrote that line on X, and it has already given fans a fresh reason to talk. He described it as “a joy” to see Nitesh Tiwari and Namit Malhotra bring the epic to the screen on such a grand scale, and praised the actors for giving depth to characters many have grown up with. He also said he is looking forward to 5 November and sent his best wishes to the team.

The message lands with extra weight because Rajamouli is not a casual observer. As the filmmaker behind RRR, he has spent years proving that Indian spectacle can travel far beyond its home audience, and his nod is being read as a peer-to-peer sign-off on Ramayana’s scale.

The Ramayana is not just another story; it is one that many audiences feel protective about. That is why an endorsement from a director with a reputation for treating mythology with scale and care matters. Fans are not just hearing that the film is big—they are hearing it from someone who knows how to make big feel purposeful.

Why the timing matters

Ramayana’s second trailer has already pulled in attention beyond Indian viewers, with Sony Pictures positioning the film as a global theatrical event. The cast is led by Ranbir Kapoor, Yash and Sai Pallavi, and the release has been framed as a tent-pole film—one designed to carry a big window and a wide campaign.

What Rajamouli’s post adds is credibility. It is one thing for a studio to promise spectacle; it is another for a director known for exactly that kind of storytelling to say the film has earned it. The message also folds Rajamouli’s dedicated following into the Ramayana conversation at exactly the right moment. With Sony Pictures involved, the campaign is designed to reach audiences who may not know every verse of the epic but understand event cinema.

Two epics, one conversation

The interest does not end with the release date. Rajamouli’s next film, Varanasi, is also set to feature an episode from the Ramayana, which makes his praise feel less like a passing compliment and more like a dialogue between two filmmakers who are each walking into the same mythology from different directions.

For fans, the plan is simple:

• Watch the second trailer to see how Tiwari is building the world.
• Circle 5 November for the theatrical release.
• Keep an eye on Varanasi news if you want another Ramayana-screen moment.

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