From Urdu to Tamil…those 9 Ramayanas, after reading which Ramanand Sagar created his ‘Ramayana’

Ramanand Sagar Ramayan: There are many shows seen on television, but some of them are such that even after becoming old, they retain their place in people’s hearts for a long time. One of these serials is Ramanand Sagar’s ‘Ramayana’, whose craze has been seen among the people till now. This serial started in the year 1987 and ran for about a year. Many people have liked it, but very few people know the hard work behind making this serial. To prepare the story, information was obtained from not 1, 2 but 9 texts.

People like to watch Indian mythological stories through TV, but the most popular serial among them is ‘Ramayana’ Is. The craze for this show became more visible among the people when this show was telecasted again during the Covid lockdown and people liked it a lot. this show Ramanand Sagar He had created it, he had also written and directed it. The popularity of this show can be gauged from the fact that it became the most watched show in the world.

This show was of 78 episodes

It has been said in many reports that lakhs of rupees were earned from each episode of the show. Talking about the total episodes of the show, its story was covered in 78 episodes. Talking about the story of the show, it is based on Maharishi Valmiki’s ‘Ramayana’ and Goswami Tulsidas’ Ramcharitmanas. But, other texts were also used as sources, after which it can be said that it is made up of the stories of 9 different ‘Ramayanas’.

Names of which texts are included

These texts include Tamil Kamba ‘Ramayanam’, Marathi Bhavartha ‘Ramayana’, Bengali Kritivas ‘Ramayana’, Telugu Ranganatha ‘Ramayanam’, Kannada Ramachandra Charita Purana, Malayalam Adhyatma ‘Ramayanam’, Chakbast’s Urdu ‘Ramayana’. In this show, Arun Govil played the role of Lord Ram and Deepika Chikhalia was seen as Mother Sita. Apart from these, Sunil Lahiri was there as Laxman, Arvind Trivedi as Ravana and Dara Singh as Hanuman in the show.

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became the most expensive show

The amazing thing is that this show was liked a lot not only in India but also abroad. At that time, this show was known as the most expensive show, although Ramanand Sagar had to face a lot of difficulties in making it, because in the old times, there were not many facilities for technology. Therefore, one had to concentrate a lot for scenes like rain, fire, forest etc. People used to worship the characters of the show like God and also used to worship the TV before the show started.