Who is this Ram supposed to be anyway? What is so sacred about this icon that it enshrines so many codes of conduct, notions of governance and other values attached to social relationships for the vast majority of Indians? Can Ram, the mythological sacred image, overpower the potential of a real character’s saga onscreen with all the emotions packed in? Dozens of film reviewers, commentators and scholars have, of course, discussed and deconstructed the film. Ravi Vasudevan reads the film as a giant digital game, while others have rapped it as a blatantly right-wing partisan film. A few have
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