India — Terry Notary Built Rama’s Walk and Bow Work From the Ground Up on “Ramayana”

• Terry Notary is the international action director on “Ramayana” and trained Ranbir Kapoor for Rama.
• The work covered walk, posture, bow handling and weapon carriage rather than fight set pieces.
• The bow draw and release were locked in training so they stay the same across months of shooting.

Posted: September 28, 2026

Prime Focus Studios put out a behind-the-scenes reel for Ramayana on September 28 that spends its running time on physical preparation rather than footage, and the department it credits is movement. Terry Notary — brought on as international action director — is shown working Ranbir Kapoor through walk, posture, bow handling and weapon carriage for Rama. Kapoor’s account of it is that the work was built from body outward: “I had the good fortune of training under him for body language, for movement.” The production says stunt professionals from across the world have been brought onto the picture alongside him.

Notary is the right hire for a brief that is closer to character construction than to set-piece choreography. His track record is movement systems that a whole cast then has to perform consistently — the Na’vi on Avatar, the ape performance work across the Planet of the Apes reboots, the Hobbit trilogy, Kong: Skull Island, and Cull Obsidian in motion capture on Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame. Applied to a deity, the problem inverts the usual action note: the movement has to read as authority without reading as an action lead, which means restraint is the hard part. A bow is the tell. Draw, anchor, release and follow-through have to be repeatable across coverage and across months of shooting, and they have to survive being matched by a double and by digital extension, so the posture gets locked in training rather than negotiated on the day.

Nitesh Tiwari directs, with Namit Malhotra producing for Prime Focus Studios alongside DNEG and Monster Mind Creations; Tiwari uses the reel to talk about casting against the weight of audience belief in the epic, and Arun Govil (Dashrath), Sai Pallavi (Sita) and Ravi Dubey (Lakshman) speak to the same point. Part one is set for Diwali 2026 and part two for Diwali 2027, with an IMAX release planned; Sony Pictures handles global distribution outside India and Dharma Productions the Hindi-speaking markets.

Source: ETV Bharat — From Avatar To Ramayana: Who Is Terry Notary, Hollywood Coach Training Ranbir Kapoor For Rama? · ANI — Ramayana BTS: New video shows Ranbir Kapoor’s transformation in Lord Rama

Learn more on IMDb: Ramayana (2026) · Terry Notary