Name: Ramayana's cast shares a stage in Delhi before the trailer drops
Uploaded: 2026-07-19T07:55:28.000Z
Description: Ranbir Kapoor's Ramayana cast came together for the first time at a Delhi event, six days before the worldwide trailer premiere on 24 July.

Ranbir Kapoor's Ramayana cast came together for the first time at a Delhi event, six days before the worldwide trailer premiere on 24 July.

Six days before the world sees the trailer, the people who made Ramayana put themselves in front of it. On 18 July, producer Namit Malhotra and director Nitesh Tiwari gathered the film’s principal cast in New Delhi for an event they called Pratham Sankalp, an invocation-style send-off framed as the film’s ceremonial start of its journey “from Bharat to the world.” The centrepiece was a first, invite-only look at the official trailer, which premieres worldwide on 24 July.

It was also the first time the full ensemble stood on one stage together, and the line-up is where the ambition shows. Ranbir Kapoor plays Rama and Sai Pallavi plays Sita. Yash, who also co-produces the film through his Monster Mind Creations, plays Ravana. Sunny Deol, cast as Hanuman, turned up as an unannounced guest. Ravie Dubey completes the core as Lakshmana.

Around them sits a deliberate piece of casting history. Arun Govil, who played Rama in Ramanand Sagar’s 1980s television Ramayan and became the face a whole generation still pictures, returns here as Dasharath, Rama’s father. The supporting roster adds Shobana as Kaikeyi, Ajinkya Deo as Vishwamitra, Kunal Kapoor as Indra and Rakul Preet Singh as Surpanakha.

The Pratham Sankalp stage in New Delhi, with the Ramayana ensemble beneath a lit archway and the film's Diwali 2026 release stamped on the backdrop.

This is Malhotra’s project as much as anyone’s. He runs Prime Focus Studios and DNEG, the visual-effects house with eight Academy Awards to its name, and has spent years on the technical side of global cinema before turning that machinery on an Indian epic. The film is presented by Prime Focus Studios in association with DNEG and Monster Mind Creations, with a score by Hans Zimmer and AR Rahman. Tiwari, who made Dangal a benchmark in markets as far as China, directs.

The rollout has been built to feel like an event in itself. Through a Ramayana Schools Programme, the makers say more than 500 schools took part, with a group of student winners invited to Delhi and preview screenings planned across 20 cities. On the copy, Malhotra kept returning to the same idea: that a story India has lived for thousands of years is one it now has the tools to show the world at full scale.

Generations of Indian cinema in a single frame at the Ramayana unveiling, the cast spanning television-era icons and present-day leads.

The Delhi unveiling follows the first look that set the scale for Tiwari’s Ramayana earlier, and the promotion does not stop at the trailer. The team is set to take the film to San Diego Comic-Con on 23 July, with Malhotra, Tiwari, Ranbir Kapoor and Yash on the panel, before the trailer goes wide the next day. Ramayana: Part One reaches cinemas this Diwali, the first half of a two-film telling.