Mumbai, Nov. 15 -- Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has backed producer Namit Malhotra's ambitious financial strategy for 'Ramayana: Rise of a Legend', stating that the film could recover the combined production costs of both instalments through its first part alone. RGV further predicted that the second part of the Ranbir Kapoor-starrer could earn as much as 10 times more than the first instalment.

In a post shared on X, the filmmaker shared a long post defending the film's reported budget and responding to questions about its box office performance. Sharing a personal example of the film's popularity, RGV revealed that even his mother had been buying tickets for people working in her residential complex.

He wrote, "Even for the best of my fi...