Ramanand Sagar's Ramayana is being broadcast on Doordarshan once again amid lockdown. Along with this, it is a big thing that this time to Ramayana is getting immense love from the audience. According to the recent BARC report, Ramayana has created new TRP records on Doordarshan. In such a situation, today we tell you some special things related to Ramayana. Along with this, when the Ramayana serial came on TV in the 80s, there were many special effects as well, like bringing Hanuman's Sanjeevani booti, flying Pushpak aircraft etc. Along with this, Prem Sagar explains that when a lot of junior artists were needed during the Ramayana, they would go from village to village to make announcements with the drums and recruit the artists.
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Prem Sagar had said in an interview to BBC, 'He came to Hollywood to meet the producer of the original King Kong to know about the special effects. Along with this, these effects were inserted in Ramayana after reading many books. Ramayana shown in five continents was seen on TV by more than 65 crore people worldwide. While the cassettes of the latest episodes of Ramayana were sent to Doordarshan's office every week, many times these cassettes arrived even half an hour before the broadcast. The shooting of Ramayana lasted for more than 550 consecutive days. For your information, let us know that when Ravana dies in 'Ramayana', mourning was done in the village of Arvind Trivedi who played Ravana.
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Simultaneously the scene of the construction of Ram Setu in the Ramayana was shot in Chennai. Prem Sagar had told that the blue sea scene of Chennai was not found in Gujarat, due to which he had to shoot it in Chennai. After the completion of 78 episodes of Ramayana, the audience demanded the story of Luv Kush. Ramanand Sagar was not ready for this story and said that if he makes the story of Luv Kush, then it will be a fictional story. Many controversies came to light after this story came on TV and Ramanand Sagar had a court case for ten years.
