Ram Gopal Varma on Ramayana budget

Ram Gopal Varma on Ramayana budget. Ranbir Kapoor, Sai Pallavi and Yash's Ramayana, directed by Nitesh Tiwari, is going great guns at the box office. In the midst of all this, Ram Gopal Varma came up with a shocker on the Ramayana budget.

He said, "Even for the best of my films, she didn't do this, but my mother has been buying tickets for @malhotra_namit's #Ramayana for the servants, watchmen, etc in the building complex she lives in. And despite this kind of euphoria, leading it to break all box office records and fast emerging as the BIGGEST HIT EVER in INDIAN CINEMATIC HISTORY, still a lot of noise is being made by many jealous people that the collections are still not enough because it's 2000 cr a piece, making it 4000 for 2."

"I got to know that the actual cost of part 1 is a little less than 800 and that includes mutually beneficial deals, global tax benefits, subsidy elements etc etc which all will eventually bring the cost to lesser than that. And not only me, but any reasonably experienced filmmaker, by seeing the film, can see the cost can't be more than that."

"Also, many are stupid to assume that both parts will cost the same. That's like thinking the cost before the interval and post-interval will be the same in a film. I know of films where 50% of the cost was just the climax."

"Also, much of the cost will include costs of creating the world of Ramayana, which becomes future assets for gaming and various other aspects, including assets for part 2, which are all a part of Namit's visionary future outings. And this part, I frankly think, can't even be understood by most Bollywood makers, traders and other self-proclaimed experts."

"So, going by how it's bull running now, it is obvious that Namit Malhotra is going to cover the entire cost of part 1 or maybe both parts in part 1 itself, and then there's the non-theatrical of part 1 and all revenue inflows of part 2. So, in other words, Namit Malhotra can build his own Pushpak vimaan and start dumping money into innumerable extraordinary ventures which all the biggest production companies from north to south couldn't do till now, and then he can surpass even the biggest of the biggest Hollywood biggies."

"I don't know what happened to Valmiki Ji or Tulsidas Ji after they did their work, but it's an irrefutable fact that, from now onwards, Namit Malhotra will be the biggest mega filmmaker in history since 1913's May 3rd release, Raja Harishchandra, till whichever the biggest film came before November 5th 2026. If anyone has a doubt, just do the math."

"And the fact that the most fantastic action set pieces will be in part 2 starting from the Hanuman acts, Vaanar Sena, Ram Sethu, Lanka dhahanam, Sita in Lanka, Kumbha Karan's death, Ravan vadh and many many more just to name a few, and going by the extraordinary proven Vision of Namit Malhotra's combination of strategy, business acumen, creative understanding and visionary outlook, If KGF 2 did around 5 times more than KGF 1, I am convinced that Ramayana 2 will do 10 times more than Ramayana part 1. If you disagree, we will talk in 2028."

-- Pramod Nandivada