Rajamouli’s 25-minute Ramayana comes in pieces
The *Varanasi* director has described one Ramayana episode made up of smaller sub-episodes. Whether those pieces are scattered through the film remains less clear.
The reported Ramayana sequence is about 25 minutes long; where its pieces appear remains less clear.
S.S. Rajamouli’s Varanasi will include a roughly 25-minute Ramayana sequence made up of several smaller sub-episodes, according to a rendering of his comments reported by Aaj Tak. The sequence appears once in the film and took 60 days to shoot, the report said. The Indian Express separately reported the same approximate runtime and shooting period.
That is the confirmed part of the story. A TeluguCinema report says the Ramayana material will be placed at different points in the wider narrative rather than shown as one continuous block. But the report does not provide a verbatim quote, transcript, timestamp or link to the relevant interview. The accessible interview material confirms Rajamouli discussed a Ramayana episode in Varanasi, not that the film scatters it across separate points.
The film stars Mahesh Babu and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, with Prithviraj Sukumaran also announced as part of the cast. Whether Varanasi itself will be one film or two remains unconfirmed. Even the epic has clearer formatting than the reporting around it.