# Rakul Preet details 4-hour makeup for ‘Ramayana’ role as Shurpanakha 2026-11-06T10:07:55+00:00 | Entertainment | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets Rakul Preet Singh has shared behind-the-scenes photos and a note on Instagram about playing Shurpanakha in the film ‘Ramayana’. She revealed that her makeup and costume team worked for about four hours daily to create the character’s look. Singh credited the entire cast and crew, including director Nitesh Tiwari and producer Namit Malhotra, for bringing the story to life. She described the role as a very special journey and thanked the team for their hard work. ‘Ramayana’ earned over Rs 120 crore worldwide on its first day of release. Singh’s performance and look as Shurpanakha have received widespread praise. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Both tv9hindi.com and amarujala.com cover actor Rakul Preet Singh’s Instagram post about her role as Shurpanakha in Nitesh Tiwari’s ‘Ramayana’. tv9hindi.com leads with her statement that her makeup and costume team worked four hours daily on her look, and includes her thanks to the director and cast, amarujala.com leads with the question of how the character was shot. Both outlets present straight neutral coverage with no political or ideological slant. The coverage is uniform, differing only in which details each outlet chose to headline. The key concrete takeaway from the post is that Singh credited her team for the praise the character is receiving. The film’s worldwide opening gross exceeded Rs 120 crore, as tv9hindi.com reports, but neither source mentions any further release or milestone date. ## Coverage Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral - tv9hindi.com (neutral report) Leads with her makeup team's four-hour daily effort - amarujala.com (neutral report) Leads with how the character was shot, focus on her post This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Tags: Nitesh Tiwari, Rakul Preet Singh, Ramayana, Shurpanakha Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/rakul-preet-details-4-hour-makeup-for-ramayana-role-as-shurpanakha/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/rakul-preet-details-4-hour-makeup-for-ramayana-role-as-shurpanakha/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/