Ramayan is a highly successful Indian television series created, written, and directed by Ramanand Sagar. The 78-episode series originally aired weekly on Doordarshan from January 25, 1987, to July 31, 1988, on Sundays at 9:30 a.m. IST.
During its original broadcast, Ramayan was enormously popular, drawing over 100 million viewers. Its popularity reached a point where the entire nation of India “came to a virtual stop as nearly everyone who could gain access to a television stopped what they were doing to watch the televised adventures of Rama.” In a phenomenon that the newsmagazine India Today dubbed “Ramayan fever,” religious services (Hindu and non-Hindu) were rescheduled to accommodate the show’s broadcast; trains, buses, and inner-city trucks stopped running when the show was on; and, in villages, hundreds of people would gather around a single television set to watch the show.
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Starring:
Arun Govil … Ram
Deepika … Sita
Dara Singh … Hanuman
Arvind Trivedi … Ravan
Vijay Arora … Meghnath
Jayshree Gadkar … Kaushalya (1986-1988)
Sanjay Jog … Bharat (1986-1988)
Padma Khanna … Kaikeyi (1986-1988)
Sunil Lahri … Laxman
Lalita Pawar … Manthara (1986-1988)
Rajnibala … Sumitra (1986-1988)
Director:
Ramanand Sagar
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