Ramayana Budget and Earnings: In today’s era, films and series are being made on many mythological stories and characters with the help of animation and VFX. But 40 years ago, Ramanand Sagar had made Ramayana in which he had done many big experiments according to that era and had not made any compromise with the quality. He spent Rs 9 lakh each on each episode of the film and got benefits from it. Each episode of Ramayana had earned Rs 40 lakh and it was because of this that Ramayana could become so successful.
Now 4 decades have passed since Ramayana came out but even today this serial is talked about a lot. In these 4 decades, many serials and films have been made which are based on this Hindu mythology. But still no one has been able to match the aura of Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayana. In such a situation, let us know some interesting things related to this show.
What was the budget and how much did Ramayana earn?
ramayan serial Talking about this, it has been 4 decades since this serial started and many changes have also taken place during this period. In those times, the value of lakh rupees was many times more than what it is today. In such a situation, a lot of money was spent in making this serial in 1987. At that time, the cost of one episode of this serial was Rs 9 lakh and it had a total of 78 episodes. In such a situation, it can be guessed that Ramanand Sagar had spent crores of rupees in making this serial.
However, he also got the fruits of this. If reports are to be believed, he had earned Rs 40 lakh on every episode of this serial. This means that the serial made a profit of around Rs 31 lakh from each episode, which explains its success well. This show was such a hit that according to reports, in the year 1987-88, Doordarshan’s viewership ratings of 82 were from this serial only. Talking about its views, it was aired in 55 countries and got more than 650 million views.
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The cast of Ramayana was fantastic
Talking about the casting of Ramayana serial, Bollywood actor Arun Govil played the lead role of Lord Ram in it and even today he is considered best for this role. Deepika Chakhalia was in the lead role of Sita in this serial. Dara Singh played the role of Lord Hanuman in the show, while on the other hand, Arvind Trivedi played the role of Ravana, the lead villain in the show. Sunil Lahiri played the role of Laxman in the show in which he was praised. Even now, if you want to go into old memories by watching this serial or want to watch it for the first time, then you can watch all the episodes of this serial on YouTube.
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