Ramayana: Rise of a Legend opens in Malaysia on 5 November, three days before India

Correction, 4 November 2026: this post first said the film was listed in Hindi at TGV and FST and in Tamil at GSC. The chains have since changed their listings: GSC and TGV now show English and Tamil versions from 5 November, and GSC lists the Hindi version as a special from 8 November. The summary has been corrected; the rest is as published on 17 October. The Ramayana post of 4 November has the current versions, formats and running times.

Ramayana, the epic Reuters described as carrying a reported budget of about US$500 million, reaches Malaysian cinemas on Thursday 5 November, three days before its Diwali opening in India. TGV lists it as Ramayana: Rise of a Legend in Hindi, and GSC as Ramayana in Tamil with English subtitles.

The biggest Indian production yet

The film is the first of two parts. Free Malaysia Today, carrying a Reuters report from San Diego Comic-Con in July, said part one opens in India on 8 November and part two in 2027. Ranbir Kapoor plays Rama, Sai Pallavi plays Sita, Ravi Dubey plays Lakshmana and Yash plays Ravana; Nitesh Tiwari directs. "This one is a bit more special than a normal film," Kapoor said at Comic-Con. Yash, in the same report, said: "If they're excited, they're the most important people."

Screen Daily reported in April that the producer, DNEG chief executive Namit Malhotra, called it "the largest independent production in the world", with DNEG on visual effects and A.R. Rahman and Hans Zimmer on the score. In July Screen reported that Sony Pictures would distribute it outside India, timed to Diwali, in several language versions including English, with a sequel already in the works. Malhotra's own short description of the film's ambition, to Screen, was "Avatar meets Gladiator", a mythological epic made at the scale of a Hollywood effects film.

The Star's October preview, listing it for 5 November, noted that the film draws from a 5,000-year-old epic.

Two listings, one film

This site carries two pages for it because the chains list two language versions. TGV and FST have the Hindi Rise of a Legend; TGV's listing gives a running time of 199 minutes, with Kapoor, Sai Pallavi, Yash and Ravi Dubey in the cast. GSC lists the Tamil version, adding Sunny Deol and Vivek Oberoi to the cast, with no running time yet. Neither chain has published a classification or sessions.

At 199 minutes, the practical news is the length: a 7pm show ends at about 10:20pm, and an 8pm one after 11:15pm. For families, a matinee or a weekend afternoon is the realistic choice.

Before you book

Choose the language first: Hindi at TGV and FST, Tamil at GSC. The Ramayana: Rise of a Legend page covers the Hindi version and the Ramayana page the Tamil one; both will list every cinema and session as the chains publish them, usually about a week before opening.