Hidden Facts about Ramayan: On a strong appeal made by Indian citizens during this lockdown for re-telecasting Ramayan. It simply feels like an old-time and primitive feeling of Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayan has come to life. The love it received at that time is the same as what it is receiving from the generation now. This serial by Ramanand Sagar is a very ground and epic representation of Ramayan. Characters in the serial when encountered give us the pure vibe of Lord Ram, Laxman, Sita, Hanuman and so on. At present this is telecasted on DD National in two slots 9 am – 9 pm.
According to reports generated by Hindi General Entertainment Category (GEC), this pre-telecast of Ramayan is the highest TRP gainer amongst all the serials since 2015. The making of this serial is what everyone is curious to know about. Since in early times people had the least of this ease of surfing. So for them, curiosity never had an answer. But now due to this internet world acquiring knowledge of anything has become easy. Here we have a list of some of the unknown facts about making of this serial that will pacify your curiosity.
Top unknown facts about Ramayan
- Ramanand Sagar was a film director who entered the serial industry with the objective of making Ramayan. But being a film director he was recommended not to switch from film to serial industry since it is less productive. But in order to test the serial industry before making Ramayan, he released a serial named Vikram Aur Betaal which gained fame.
- The complete shooting of Ramayan took a total of 550 days since precision to every detail was essential because that gave the serial the essence of being real.
- Expenditure in the making of every episode of Ramayan was INR 9 lakh and every episode of it earned INR 40 lakh.
- Arun Govil who portrayed the role of Ram was initially rejected at the time of audition. But later on, his million-dollar smile added to his personality made him the perfect fit and was called again to do the role of Ram.
- Sanjay Jog who did the character of Bharat was initially asked to do the role of Laxman. Since the role of Laxman required many days of the shoot he could not promise for such a long duration of shooting.
- One who played the role of Dashrath and Kaushalya i.e. Bal Dhuri and Jayshree Gadkar were married in real.
- This serial gained a lot of love from its audience, the serial was aired in 55 countries with a viewer count of 650 million.
- Originally only 52 episodes were made. Since it gained immense popularity then the episode length was increased making a count of a total of 78 episodes.
- Arun Govil was so inspired by his role that he quit smoking and various bad habits in real life.
- In 2003 Limca Book of Records listed it as one of the most popular and most viewed Mythological serials.
So these were some of the Unknown facts about Ramayan which surely must have satisfied your curiosity and left you awestruck as well.