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Adipurush review: With its passable VFX and unironically funny dialogues, Om Raut's Ramayana adaptation doesn't really check all the boxes.

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Take a bit of Avengers and Lord of The Rings, add a pinch of Game of Thrones, and top it up with Temple Run — and Adipurush is served.

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Agreed it's no easy feat to recreate an epic tale, but with all the research and material at hand

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— through Tulsidas' Ramcharitmanas and Valmiki's Ramayana — if this is director Om Raut's best take on the contemporary Ramayana,

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we need to go back and revisit the original in all its glory, and restore our sanity.

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Adipurush is merely a Bollywood-ised version of one of the most epic tales that ever existed.

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If you keep the story aside for it's largely known to all, the execution turns out to be a messy blend of over-the-top CGI and passable VFX,

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and making it worse are the intentionally funny dialogues that sound misplaced in a sensitive and mythological story.

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As for the narrative, Adipurush wastes no time in character-building or telling us the back stories of how things transpired in Ayodhya.

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