Ranbir’s Tiranga pin and Yash’s Trishul do the soft-power work at Comic-Con
At San Diego Comic-Con, Ranbir Kapoor pinned a Tiranga brooch to his navy bandhgala and Yash wore a gold Trishul on black. The Ramayana carpet said India in accessories, not logos.
Anika Rao
San Diego’s step-and-repeat usually sells franchises with logos the size of a door. Ramayana sold India in two pins. Ranbir Kapoor, playing Rama, arrived in a navy bandhgala with white trousers, dark sunglasses, and a Tiranga-inspired brooch on the lapel. Yash, playing Ravana, stayed in all black with a gold Trishul pin catching the light. That is the Red Carpet Ledger: Comic-Con soft power as intentional detail, not a flag as wallpaper.
What they wore, and why it reads
Coverage of the arrival and media line keeps circling the same choice. Ranbir’s look layered a Nehru jacket or bandhgala over a quieter base, then put the national colors on a single brooch instead of a full costume stunt. Yash’s black blazer and chain already photographed like a villain arrival; the Trishul turned the silhouette into myth without a crown. Sunglasses on both kept the press-line cool that Comic-Con expects, while the pins did the cultural work.
This tracks an earlier Delhi styling beat for Ranbir, when a Dhanush (bow) brooch did the same job for a local launch: one object, one story, no need to shout the epic on every button. At Ballroom 20, the panel-scale first look was the room. Outside it, the carpet was the pins.
The trailer wait, and the Sony clock
Hours around the Comic-Con showcase, producer Namit Malhotra said Sony Pictures Entertainment will distribute Ramayana internationally outside India, and that the public trailer would launch globally later rather than on the July 24 digital window fans had circled. The Diwali 2026 Part 1 / 2027 Part 2 calendar still stands as the theatrical bet. Fashion moved on schedule even when the trailer file did not.
Our take
Treat the Tiranga and Trishul as the diaspora-readable version of a Comic-Con poster. You do not need the full trailer cut to understand the pitch: Indian epic cinema showing up in a room built for Western tentpoles, with accessories that still mean something at home. Pair with the Japanwala Odyssey bronze if you are tracking South Asian craft on global carpets this week. Watch for the next lapel object when Sony’s trailer date lands. The story keeps traveling through what they pin, not only what they screen.
