India’s New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Replacement Officially Arrives This Week

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In an unusual turn of events, two major international titles are set for a domestic release this week. Japan’s highly anticipated Godzilla Minus Zero is expected to handily outperform an Indian heavy hitter at the North American box office, although both movies will likely debut in the top-10. Directed by Takashi Yamazaki, Godzilla Minus Zero serves as a sequel to the runaway blockbuster Godzilla Minus One, which went on to win the Best Visual Effects Oscar despite costing a fraction of its competitors. The sequel carries a similarly frugal budget, which stands in stark contrast to the Indian epic. Based on a mythological text sacred to Hindus, the film reportedly cost more than $200 million. This makes it the most expensive Indian film of all time.

The movie has been produced by the visual-effects house DNEG and is set to be followed by a second installment in a couple of years. Indian films have gradually grown in relevance at the box office, with the word-of-mouth sensation RRR having grossed more than $15 million domestically. Earlier this year, Dhurandhar: The Revenge emerged as the highest-grossing Indian film of all time in North America with a haul of nearly $30 million.

Your answers point to the great house whose words, values, and way of surviving in Westeros match your own. Bend the knee — or don’t. That’s very much up to you.

Winter is Coming — and you have always known it. You prepare not out of fear but out of duty, because the people who depend on you deserve someone who takes the long view.

• You lead with honour even when it costs you, because you understand that a reputation built on integrity is the only one worth having.
• Your loyalty to family and people runs deep — not as sentiment but as a code that doesn’t bend when things get difficult.
• The North endures because Starks endure — not by being the cleverest players in the game, but by being the kind of people others are willing to follow into the cold.
• You are that kind of person. The pack survives. The lone wolf dies. You already know which one you are.

You understand the game — its rules, its exceptions, and exactly when the rules become the exception. You play it without illusions and without apology.

• You are sharper than most people realise, and you have learned to use that gap to your advantage.
• A Lannister always pays their debts — and you always keep your word, because your word is an instrument of power, and instruments must be kept in working order.
• You love your family with a ferocity that sometimes blinds you, and you know it, and you do it anyway.
• The lion doesn’t concern itself with the opinion of sheep. Neither, in the end, do you.

You carry a sense of destiny that is difficult to explain and impossible to ignore — the feeling that you are not simply participating in the world but meant to reshape it.

• You are capable of extraordinary things, and you know it, and that knowledge is both your greatest strength and your most dangerous quality.
• Fire and blood are not just words to you — they are a philosophy about what change requires and what it costs.
• The Targaryens at their best were transformative rulers who broke chains and defied the limits of what anyone thought possible.
• At your best, so are you. The dragon has three heads. You are one of them.

You are a force — direct, powerful, and difficult to ignore when you enter a room or a conflict. You do not negotiate with challenges. You meet them.

• Ours is the fury — and yours is a kind of intensity that commands attention, respect, and occasionally fear from those who underestimate what’s behind it.
• You value strength and straight dealing. You’d rather know where you stand in a fight than navigate a web of courtly whispers.
• The Baratheons built their house on the back of one of the greatest military victories in Westerosi history — and then struggled with what came after.
• The lesson of your house is that winning is not the end of the story. Governing is. You are learning that too.

You understand that power does not always announce itself — that sometimes it arrives with flowers, good wine, and a smile that doesn’t quite reach the eyes.

• Growing strong is your house’s motto, and you live it: patiently, strategically, always investing in the relationships and resources that will matter most when it counts.
• You are charming by choice and calculating by nature — a combination that makes you one of the most effective players in any room you enter.
• The Tyrells fed King’s Landing and shaped its politics without ever sitting on the Iron Throne — and they were arguably more powerful for it.
• You know that the person who controls the food controls the kingdom. And you always know where the food is.

Here’s When the Epic Arrives in Theaters

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We’re talking, of course, about Ramayana: Rise of a Legend. Directed by Nitesh Tiwari, the film stars Ranbir Kapoor as Lord Rama and Yash as the villainous demon king Ravana. The film is being released domestically by Sony in a truncated 167-minute cut, dubbed in English using generative artificial intelligence. The film’s original cut runs at 195 minutes long and includes song and dance numbers typical of mainstream Indian cinema. Early reviews of Ramayana have been largely unenthusiastic, with critics calling it “terribly unexciting” and deriding its visual effects. This is the second adaptation of the Indian epic in recent years, following the critical and commercial disaster Adipurush, which was released in 2023. Ramayana will be released theatrically on November 6, only a few days ahead of the third season premiere of Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.

Ramayana: Rise of a Legend