Ramayana's Trailer Arrived at 4.15am. Yash Owns It.

The first full trailer for Ramayana went up at 4.15 in the morning, a time the makers announced two days in advance so that everyone could set an alarm for it. The slot was chosen to fall in the Brahma Muhurta, the hour before dawn considered most auspicious in Hindu practice. It is a piece of scheduling as an event in itself, and it worked, because a lot of people were awake for it.

Nearly four minutes long, the trailer is Nitesh Tiwari showing his hand at last after months of holding the film close.

Ranbir Kapoor plays Rama with the volume turned down. There is very little declaiming; he is built here out of stillness and expression, a prince becoming a warrior without ever raising his voice about it. Social media has already landed on “RAMbir” as the shorthand, which tells you it connected.

But the trailer belongs to Yash. His Ravana arrives with the weight the part has always demanded and rarely received, regal and genuinely frightening in the same frame, and every cut he appears in tightens. It is the performance the promotion will now be built around, and on this evidence it deserves to be.

The scale is where the money shows. Ayodhya, Lanka, the forests, the battlefields, all of it rendered by DNEG and shot for IMAX, with enough detail packed into the corners that people are already freeze-framing for Airavat, the Pushpak Vimana and glimpses of celestial combat. Under it runs a score credited jointly to A.R. Rahman and Hans Zimmer, a pairing that could have gone badly and instead gives the whole thing an international register without sanding off what it is.

Sai Pallavi appears as Sita and Ravie Dubey as Lakshman, with Lara Dutta, Rakul Preet Singh and Arun Govil among the faces passing through. Govil being in this film at all is a quiet pleasure, given that a generation in India grew up watching him play Rama on television in the 1980s.

One name is conspicuously missing. Sunny Deol’s Hanuman does not appear anywhere in the four minutes, which is not an oversight in a campaign this precisely managed. That reveal is being saved.

Namit Malhotra produces under Prime Focus Studios with Monster Mind Creations, following the Pratham Sankalp glimpse released earlier this year. Dharma Productions handles the North India release and Sony Pictures takes it internationally.

Ramayana opens worldwide at Diwali 2026 in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.