The date is locked. Ramayana's first part hits screens on November 6, 2026, across languages and formats, according to the makers, who dropped this detail alongside the film's first poster on Vinayaka Chavithi.

The poster itself is a 30-second clip, not a static image, showing Ranbir Kapoor's Ram and Sai Pallavi's Sita in what's being described as a quiet, private moment. Producer Namit Malhotra's team is calling it the opening move in a longer rollout, with the first song, 'Jai Jai Ram,' still to come.

But the bigger story here isn't the poster. It's the scale of what's being assembled around it.

A.R. Rahman is composing the film's music. Hans Zimmer is on board too, credited as composer on the same project. Two Oscar winners scoring one Indian mythological is not something that happens often, and it tells you where the budget conversation on this film has been heading for a while now.

The cast list reads like four industries agreed to share one film. Yash, who's also co-producing, joins Kajal Aggarwal, Rakul Preet Singh, Sunny Deol, Ravi Dubey and Vivek Oberoi in supporting roles. That's a Kannada superstar, a mix of Hindi and Telugu regulars, and a producer's credit that suggests Yash's involvement goes well past a cameo appearance.

What nobody's confirmed yet, at least not in what's out so far, is exactly how many parts this Ramayana runs to or who plays who beyond the leads and the names already listed. The phrase "first part" does the heavy lifting here. It confirms there's a second, without saying when.

Director Nitesh Tiwari, who's built a career on turning familiar stories into box office events, is handling a text every Indian audience already knows by heart. That's a different challenge from an original screenplay. The reveal strategy so far, poster first, song next, suggests the makers know this and are pacing the marketing to build toward the release rather than front-loading everything at once.

November 6 puts the film in the pre-Diwali corridor this year, a slot that mythological and mega-budget releases have historically used well in Hindi cinema. Whether Ramayana can hold that date without a shift is the next thing to watch, given how often big-canvas Hindi films have slipped in the past two years.

The song 'Jai Jai Ram' is expected next, and that's likely where the makers show more of Ram and Sita together on screen rather than the brief glimpse this poster offered.