Ramayana: Rise of a Legend: parents' guide

Frequent fantasy battles and duels with bone-snapping blows to necks and arms, body slams, swords and arrows. An immortal is riddled with arrows and decapitated but heals at once, and a creature loses a wing. Blood stains weapons, bodies and the ground.

The BBFC's advice, which covers every category, lists no bad language, and no review we read mentions swearing. Reviewers describe the Hindi dialogue as formal and elevated.

No sex or nudity is reported, and Rama and Sita's courtship and marriage are tender and chaste. The BBFC notes one brief moment of sexual threat, when a man roughly seizes a serving woman's wrist, which the film clearly condemns.

The BBFC lists no drug or alcohol content and no review mentions any. A secondhand report says one Canadian board's advisory includes alcohol use; we could not confirm it, so expect at most brief drinking.

Demons carry off people, characters are held at sword point, and corpses litter battlefields. The BBFC warns of distressing material about death and bereavement, likely including Rama's father's death. A gravely injured creature is soaked in blood, and the film stops on a cliffhanger.