A scene from ‘Ramyug’.
Why has it proven so difficult for Indian creators to match the popularity of Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayan and B.R. Chopra’s Mahabharat ?
One of the first things you notice about Kunal Kohli’s
Ramyug (the first episode of which premiered on MX Player recently) is that hardly any actor on display seems to be comfortable with the task at hand. Perhaps it’s because the task itself is ill-defined: with the gym torsos on display and the emphasis on special effects,
Ramyug clearly wants to be a vaguely modernised retelling of the
Ramayana, a