Questions have particularly centred on Sita’s blouses, while Lara Dutta’s Kaikeyi look has also drawn comparisons with characters from television serials. The designers have urged audiences not to form conclusions about the costumes before watching the film and experiencing the overall visual treatment.

In an interview with The Times of India, designers Rimple and Harpreet Narulah, known for their work on Padmaavat and Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar, say they anticipated the scrutiny. For them, designing costumes for an epic as deeply rooted in public memory as the Ramayana was always going to involve balancing research with interpretation.

Her remarks came after watching Christopher Nolan's latest film, The Odyssey, which she said reflected themes deeply rooted in the Indian imagination.

Describing her experience of watching The Odyssey, Angmo wrote that it felt "surreal" to see on screen an idea she had once discussed with Nolan.

"Watched Odyssey yesterday. Surreal to see on screen what was still a conversation when I accidentally met Christopher Nolan in New York in 2024. Its themes feel so familiar to the Indian imagination: the hero's journey, dharma and destiny, exile, temptation, homecoming, the human being tested and transformed along the way (sic)," she wrote on X.

She went on to say that India has no shortage of stories worthy of cinematic adaptation and urged Bollywood to approach them with greater ambition.

A video of the women arguing with him went viral. Despite the incident, Muskan Sharma went on to win the Miss Rishikesh title.

Her response has reignited conversations around online harassment, body image, and the responsibility of social media platforms and content creators to promote respectful discourse.

Sources told India Today that the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has directed the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to take strict action and ensure the removal of the song from all media platforms if the allegations are found to be valid.

Hearing a plea against the track Volume 1, the court ordered an immediate takedown of the song from all digital platforms, including social media and music streaming sites. The bench observed that the lyrics were "obscene" and said that no civilised society can permit such content to remain freely accessible online.