Nitesh Tiwari's Ramayana has its first song out, and the makers picked Vinayaka Chavithi to drop it. "Jai Jai Ram" arrived Sunday morning along with a motion poster of Ranbir Kapoor's Ram and Sai Pallavi's Sita, according to 123telugu.

A.R. Rahman composed the track. Arijit Singh and Shreya Ghoshal sing it, and the lyrics are by Dr. Kumar Vishwas, a name you don't usually see in a film credits block. A.R. Ameen and Hiral Viradia handled music supervision.

The song itself is pitched as devotional rather than a big dance number, built around the emotional register of Ram and Sita rather than spectacle. That tracks with how the marketing has gone so far. The trailer leaned heavily on scale and mythology, and this single is doing the quieter work of setting up the film's emotional core before the noisier stuff.

What's worth noting is that Rahman isn't the only composer on this film. Hans Zimmer is also attached to the score, per production credits, which means Ramayana is running a two-composer setup, likely Rahman on songs and Zimmer on background score, though the exact division hasn't been spelled out publicly. For a project this size, that's not unusual, but it does tell you Namit Malhotra and Tiwari are treating this less like a regional mythological and more like something meant to travel.

Ramayana stars Ranbir Kapoor and Sai Pallavi as Ram and Sita, with Yash playing Ravana. Malhotra is producing, and the film releases in multiple languages on November 6, 2026, a date that's been locked for a while now.

The timing of this song drop isn't incidental either. Ganesh Chaturthi is exactly the kind of calendar peg Indian studios love for devotional content, and dropping a Ram-Sita number on a festival built around another deity still gets you the auspicious-occasion halo without actually competing for the same audience moment.

With the song out, the marketing machine moves into what 123telugu calls the film's major promotional phase. Expect more music, possibly the full trailer cut again for festival windows, and eventually some word on how Zimmer's score fits alongside Rahman's. Seven weeks out from release, Ramayana still has a lot of ground to cover before November 6, and the internet's already comparing it to Godzilla Minus One in terms of scale expectations. Whether the film can carry that comparison is a different question from whether the song works. For now, at least, the song works.