| Ramayana | |
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| Format | Drama |
| Created by | Sagar Arts |
| Starring | Gurmeet Choudhary Debina Bonnerjee Ankit Arora Vijay Bhatia Lalit Negi |
| Opening theme | Jai Shri Ram By Suresh Wadkar and Kavita Krishnamurthy |
| Composer(s) | Ravindra Jain |
| Country of origin | India |
| Language(s) | Hindi, Telugu Tamil, Malayalam. |
| No. of episodes | 300 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 20 minutes per episode |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | NDTV Imagine |
| Original run | January 21, 2008 – June 26, 2009 |
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| Website | |
Ramayan, based on Valmiki's Ramayana and Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas, as well as Chakbasta's Urdu Ramayana, is an Indian television series produced by Sagar Arts which airs on NDTV Imagine. It is also partly derived from portions of Kambar's Kambaramayanam.
It is a remake of the highly successful Ramayan that was created, written, and directed by Ramanand Sagar and which aired on Doordarshan from 1987 to 1988.
The show won the "Most Promising New Show of the Year" award at theIndiantelevision.com's New Talent Awards. In addition to this, Gurmeet Choudhary, who played the lead role of Lord Rama won the "Most Promising New Talent of Tomorrow" award.[1]
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It tells the story of Lord Ram who was the eldest of the four sons of Dashrath, the king of Ayodhya. Ram was to become the king of Ayodhya after his father’s retirement. But his stepmother Kaikeyi whose mind was poisoned by Manthra wanted her son Bharat to become king.
Remembering that Dashrath had once promised to grant her any two boons she desired, she demanded that Lord Ram should be banished to the forest for fourteen years and Bharat should be crowned as the king. The helpless and heartbroken Dashrath had to keep his word. So, he asks Ram to leave for the forest. Lord Ram happily accepts the exile and leaves for the forest along with his dutiful wife, Mata Sita and younger brother Lakshman. When Bharat learns that his mother is responsible for Lord Ram's exile, he requests Lord Ram to return to Ayodhya. But, when Lord Ram refuses to do so Bharat obtains Lord Ram's sandals and places them on the throne as a gesture that Lord Rama is the true king.
Bharat then rules Ayodhya as a representative of Lord Ram for the next fourteen years. Later, Ravan, the evil King of Lanka, abducts Mata Sita. How Lord Ram and Lord Lakshman along with Lord Hanuman and his vanar sena rescues Mata Sita, and how Lord Ram slays Ravan forms the rest of the story.
The first original telecast of the show ended on 26 June 2009.
Lord Rama is the hero of this epic tale.He is portrayed as an incarnation of the Lord Vishnu. He is the eldest and the favourite son of the King of Ayodhya, Dashrath.He is referred to as Maryada Purushottama, literally the Perfect Man.he is grand son of Aj. MAIN PROTAGONIST.
Mata Sita is the beloved wife of Lord Rama and the daughter of king Janak.She is portrayed as an incarnation of the goddess Lakshmi.Sita is the epitome of womanly purity and virtue.She follows her husband into exile.
Hanuman is a powerful vanara belonging to the kingdom of Kishkindha.He worships Lord Rama and helps find Mata Sita by going to the kingdom of Lanka crossing the great ocean.
Lakshmana
Lakshman is the brother of Lord Rama, who chose to go into exile with him. He spends his time protecting Mata Sita and Lord Rama.
Ravan
Ravan a demon king of the golden Lanka. He received a boon from Lord Brahma that he cannot be killed by either Gods, demons or by spirits, after performing a severe penance for ten thousand years. Lord Vishnu incarnates as the human Lord Rama to defeat him, thus circumventing the boon given by Lord Brahma.
King Dasharatha
Dashrath is the king of Ayodhya and the father of Lord Rama. He has three queens, Kousalya, Sumitra and Kaikeyi, and three other sons; Bharata, Lakshmana and Shatrughna.
Bharat
Bharat is the second son of King Dashrath.When Lord Rama refuses to return from his exile to assume the throne, Bharat obtains Lord Ram's sandals and places them on the throne as a gesture that Lord Rama is the true king.
Shatrughna
Shatrughna and Lakshmana were the twin sons of King Dashrath of Ayodhya by his third wife Sumitra.
Mandodari
Mandodari is the wife of Demon King Ravan. She is very beautiful and elegant. She stopped her husband from kidnapping Mata Sita and always told him to return her to Shri Ram and ask for forgivness.
Urmila
Urmila is the wife of Lakshman and younger sister of Mata Sita. She had to be separated from Lakshman for 14 years. She is known for her rare beauty and intelligence.
Mandhvi
Mandhvi has also suffered like Urmila.
Ravindra Jain, who was the music director for the original series, returns as music director for this series, with Kavita Krishnamurthy and Suresh Wadkar as playback singers. Omang Kumar designs the sets and Nisha Sagar designs the costumes. It is directed by Anand Sagar, son of Ramanand Sagar. The Sagars have worked on the script for about six months.[2][3] An audio CD with 17 bhajans from the TV Serial was released in 2009 with music by Ravindra Jain and voices provided by singers such as Suresh Wadkar, Kavita Subramaniam, Sadhana Sargam, Satish Dehra, Pamela Jain, Ravi Tripathi, Amaye Daate, Rekha Rao, Prem Prakash, Kuldeep, Subhash Srivastav, Sanket, and Ravindra Jain himself
The series is shot at "Sagar Film City" in Baroda.[4]
NDTV Imagine which originally airs Ramayan has struck a syndication deal with UTV Software Communications which allows it to air Dubbed versions of Ramayan on Sun TV Network. As part of the deal, NDTV Imagine will also get a revenue share from UTV after the earnings reach a particular level. UTV has paid a telecast fee to Sun for acquiring the prime time slot on the network channels. It will have the rights to sell air time.
The Malayalam version of Ramayan is a daily which airs on Surya TV from Monday to Friday at 6.30 pm.Unni Menon sings the songs in the malayalam version along with various other female artists.
Ramayan has been dubbed into Tamil and airs (as Ramayana) on Sun Tv on all Sundays 9.30 AM to 10.30 AM in India and 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM in America.Unni Krishnan, K. S. Chithra and Chinmayee sing the songs in the Tamil version.
The Telugu version airs on Gemini TV.
Udaya TV, Sun Tv's Kannada channel can't air the Kannada version because Karnataka state does not permit dubbed content on television.
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