Nippon Ramayana Film Co.’s Ramayana: The Legend Of Prince Rama (animation) is the epic Ramayana narrated in animation format.
It is based on Valmiki’s Ramayana. The story, of course, has a lot of drama and emotions, but the screenplay (written by Narendra Sharma, Rani Burra, Ram Mohan, Koichi Sasaki, Hiroshi Onogi and Yugo Sako) is not too engaging. The emotional quotient simply doesn’t come through — and that is the biggest drawback of the film. The drama neither evokes sentiments nor laughter. For that matter, it doesn’t evoke any kind of emotions because it moves without involving the viewers. Dialogues are dull.
The voice acting is good. Dishi Duggal’s narration is fairly nice. Voice acting by Yudhvir Dahiya (for Rama), Sonal Kaushal (Sita), Rajesh Jolly (Ravana), Uplaksh Kochhar (Laxman), and Archit Maurya (Hanuman) ranges from fair to good.
Koichi Sasaki, Ram Mohan and Yugo Sako’s direction is average. The narration doesn’t hold the audience’s attention. Vanraj Bhatia’s music is functional. Kazuyuki Kobayashi’s animation is very ordinary. Editing is loose.
On the whole, Ramayana: The Legend Of Prince Rama is a poor fare.
Released on 24-1-’25 at Inox (daily 1 show) and other cinemas of Bombay thru AA Films. Publicity & opening: poor. …….Also released all over. Opening was weak everywhere.
