The story itself, when not being narrated, is told with these
2-D animations, wherein the animation styles keep varying –
sometimes psychedelic, sometimes old-school Indian art,
sometimes cartoon-like. In these animations, the characters
of the Ramayana speak to each other in painfully ornate
tones, keeping in character of ‘a long, long, time ago’, but
occasionally break character to deliver golden lines like,
“Your ass is grass.” For example, when Dasaratha banishes
Rama, he delivers a long, sonorous speech on how he must
keep his word to his wife Kaikeyi. After he’s done, Kaikeyi
dryly adds, “Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out!”