SCOOP: Ranbir Kapoor Secretly Tipped Off Sandeep Reddy Vanga About Ramayana 2’s Delay — and Helped Prabhas’ Spirit Grab Diwali 2027

What looked like the biggest box-office war of 2027 may have been settled with a phone call between friends. According to an exclusive Bollywood Hungama scoop published on October 24, Ranbir Kapoor personally tipped off director Sandeep Reddy Vanga about the expected delay to Ramayana Part 2 — a heads-up that let Vanga move Prabhas’ Spirit into the Diwali 2027 window before anyone else could claim it.

The backstory is now well known. Vanga announced on October 18 that Spirit, his first collaboration with Prabhas, would release on October 29, 2027 — Diwali 2027 — a date that had been earmarked for Ramayana Part 2, Ranbir’s own epic sequel. But Bollywood Hungama’s sources tell a very different story: Ranbir, who plays Lord Ram in Nitesh Tiwari’s two-part epic, was aware that Part 2 could be delayed, and once he was officially informed of the delay, he promptly called his friend Vanga.

“Ranbir Kapoor was aware that there could be a delay in the release of Ramayana 2. When Ranbir was officially informed of the delay, he took no time to pick up the call on his dear friend, Sandeep Reddy Vanga,” a source told Bollywood Hungama, describing the two as “the Jai-Veeru of Indian Film Industry.” Vanga, grateful for the intel, moved quickly: with producer Bhushan Kumar in agreement, Spirit’s Diwali 2027 date was locked in. The report adds that Ramayana 2’s new date is expected to be announced shortly, most likely in a post-credit reveal in the first Ramayana film, which releases on November 5, 2026.

Here is the Filmverse take: if this scoop is accurate, it quietly rewrites how the industry should read release-date “wars.” The public narrative was rivalry — two giants circling the same festival — but the private reality appears to have been coordination, with a star protecting his own franchise’s calendar by handing a rival date to a friend rather than letting it become a free-for-all. That matters beyond gossip: a Diwali date claimed early, cleanly and without a clash lets exhibitors plan screens a year ahead, lets both films avoid splitting the festive audience, and lets Spirit market itself as the Diwali event rather than as half of a fight. The only loser in this version of events is the clash narrative itself — and the trade may be better off without it. The usual caveat applies: this remains a source-based report, not an official announcement from either camp, and the proof will come when Ramayana’s post-credits roll on November 5.

Our earlier report on Spirit’s move to Diwali 2027: https://filmverse.in/spirit-postponed-diwali-2027-ramayana-part-2-clash/

Source: Bollywood Hungama (source-based scoop, not an official announcement)

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