Rajamouli At Top, But Nagi Is No. 2?

Crafting mythological action epic films is always a tough challenge for any film maker. This is evident if we look at the kind of reception that we recently released, Ramayana teaser generated.

Great things were expected from this glimpse video in the first place as this film marks the collaboration of Ranbir Kapoor, Yash and Sai Pallavi. But the early reception for the glimpse video yesterday has been very ordinary.

People have questions and concerns about the visual composition and the graphics footage. There is a lot of debate and discussion happening on this on social media since yesterday.

As expected a significant portion of this discourse, after the release of the Ramayana teaser is happening around Rajamouli, as people are commenting that he is the master of this mythological craft.

But it needs to be said that there is another Indian director, who can also perhaps put his hand up in this context and it is Nag Ashwin, who is fondly called Nagi by his near ones.

Ashwin had earlier made Kalki, which has fragments of the epic Mahabharata and references to Hindu mythology. The film might not be entirely based on this concept, but ending portion is overwhelmingly dependent on the same.

In particular, the visual composition that was created by Nag Ashwin is definitely super superior. Despite the major majority of the film being shot inside, close the doors with green screens, we get a clear indication that the continuity in graphic visual is very smooth. There are no jerks or abrupt VFX shots through the course of the film.

Now that the teaser of Ramayan has faced a bit of negative feedback on social media for ordinary graphics footage after promising best in class visual experience, perhaps Nag Ashwin also requires a bit of a positive pat on the back for refined visual experience with Kalki. Rajamouli might be the unquestionable number 1, but Ashin is closely behind.