Anupam Kher 'completely overwhelmed' by Sweden's response to 'Ramayana': 'People were in tears'

Anupam Kher 'completely overwhelmed' by Sweden's response to 'Ramayana: Rise of a Legend'; says, 'People came up to me with tears in their eyes' after Stockholm premiere

Veteran actor Anupam Kher has shared glimpses from the Stockholm premiere of Nitesh Tiwari’s ‘Ramayana: Rise of a Legend’, saying the warm reaction of Swedish viewers left him overwhelmed. Anupam Kher, who voices Jatayu in the film, posted a video showing audience members shaking hands and chatting with him after the screening.

Anupam Kher’s note on the Stockholm premiere

‘Ramayana’ reached theatres on 5 November, just in time for

Diwali

. It had premieres across the world and got mixed reviews from critics, but it has done well at the box office.Anupam Kher wrote a long note on X and Instagram about the Sweden event. “Extremely happy to share these visuals from the Swedish premiere of Ramayana: The Rise of Legend in Stockholm. I began my speech with a sentence in Swedish: “Jag är mycket glad att vara här i Stockholm i kväll.”

— “I am very happy to be here in Stockholm this evening.” And I truly was. After 41 years and 556 films in India, it was also special to share that I have become a small part of Swedish cinema for the first time with Out of Fashion,” he wrote.

Anupam Kher's message of the epic travels across borders

Thanking Anurag Bhushan, India’s Ambassador to Sweden, for the introduction, Anupam Kher said he felt proud to be part of the film by voicing Jatayu. “The Ramayana is not only a story from India; its message of love, sacrifice, family, duty and the triumph of good over evil speaks to people across borders, languages and generations.

It was moving to see this timeless Indian epic being celebrated in Sweden,” he wrote.

Audience left the actor emotional

Anupam Kher said the response after the film moved him deeply. “When the film ended, people came up to me with tears in their eyes, shaking my hand and thanking me for telling the story of the Ramayana and for playing Jatayu. I was completely overwhelmed. It filled me with immense pride to see a film like this come out of India and connect with audiences here,” he wrote.He congratulated the film’s team and ended his note with, “Proud to be Indian. Jai Shri Ram!”

About ‘Ramayana: Rise of a Legend’

The film stars

Ranbir Kapoor

as Rama,

Sai Pallavi

as Sita and

Yash

as Ravana. Nitesh Tiwari has directed it, and Namit Malhotra and Yash have produced it on a very large budget. The first part covers Rama’s birth, upbringing, marriage and vanavas. It closes with Ravana abducting Sita and Rama vowing to defeat him. The second part is set to release for Diwali 2028.