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I can't say the characters are very complex. I'm not sure how accurate it is to the source material, but it does have that aesthetic and it is pretty interesting. It comes complete with great, heroic deeds, imposing trials, fallen heroes and divine intervention. That being said, the film is presented in a very old fashioned epic style that works pretty well. But on the subject of musical numbers, Hanuman gets a kind of weak song where he repeats that he's Rama's emissary for around three minutes and it's just kind of a boring, overly repetitive number. I don't mind them having musical numbers but at least give us something to look at while they play. It's also a bit weird that there's a musical interlude in the middle of the film where all we do is stare at a vacant screen. Hanuman's trip to the Himalayas is really abrupt. It looks like Rama should have enough time to return about five times, maybe six, before Sita is taken. The point I'm making here is that, as presented, this sequence doesn't work. Ravan disguises as a priest tricks her into crossing over the salt and has time to escape before they return. We then watch his brother, Lakshman, get fooled by the demon faking his voice. He seems to barely move out of sight when he shoots it. We see Rama chasing a demon disguised as a golden deer. The biggest issue with the film's narrative is that scenes don't always flow smoothly. Everything is looking up for him until his father sends him into exile to keep a promise and his wife is kidnapped by the demon Ravan. He does as he asks and Prince Rama handily saves the countryside and finds himself a pretty young bride, Sita, during the journey. A golden light tells him to go to Ayodhya and bring Prince Rama who can defeat the imperial demons. In any case, a Hindu holy man beseeches Vishnu for guidance. Or maybe they're just British imperials inįunny outfits. We open with a countryside being terrorised by demons. You'll have to wait for the anime versions of The Iliad, Beowulf & Journey to the West to see me get into heavy scholarly detail about adaptation differences. As such, I probably won't notice if the film gets some details wrong. I'll be honest, I'm not super familiar with the epic. Which was worked on by Japanese & Indian animation studios alike and based off of the Hindu epic, Ramayana. A part of the celebration was this project. In 1992, Japan and India were celebrating 40 years of strong diplomatic ties.