Ramayan (1986 TV series)

Ramayan
Ramayan promotional poster
Created by	Ramanand Sagar
Starring	Arun Govil Deepika Chikhalia Sunil Lahri Sanjay Jog Arvind Trivedi Dara Singh Vijay Arora Sameer Rajda Mulraj Rajda Lalita Pawar
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Hindi (primary) Awadhi (minor)
No. of episodes	78
Production
Running time	35 minutes
Release
Original network	Doordarshan
Original release	25 January 1987 – 31 July 1988
Chronology
Followed by	Luv Kush

Ramayan is an Indian epic television series, which aired during 1987-1988, created, written, and directed by Ramanand Sagar.^[1] The remake of Ramayan series was again presented by Sagar Arts and which aired on NDTV Imagine in 2008. Ramayan introduced the concept of Hindu mythology to Indian Television and went on to become a cult classic, it was aired on Zee TV in mid-90's. Also, it was aired on Star Plus and Star Utsav in 2000's. ^[2][3]

It is a television adaptation of the ancient Indian Hindu religious epic of the same name, and is primarily based on Valmiki's Ramayana and Tulsidas' Ramcharitmanas.

The serial was brought to the small screen by Sagar Art Enterprises. The list of technicians is as follows:

Screenplay & Dialogue - Ramanand Sagar; Special Effects - Ravikant Nagaich; Technical Advisor - Prem Sagar; Lyrics & Music - Ravindra Jain; Title Music - Jaidev; Executive Producer - Subhash Sagar; Second Unit Directors - Anand Sagar & Moti Sagar; Produced & Directed - Ramanand Sagar.

Cast

• Arun Govil as Ram
• Deepika Chikhalia as Sita
• Sunil Lahri as Lakshman
• Sanjay Jog as Bharat
• Sameer Rajda as Shatrughna
• Dara Singh as Hanuman
• Bal Dhuri as Dashratha
• Jayshree Gadkar as Kaushalya
• Rajni Bala as Sumitra
• Padma Khanna as Kaikeyi
• Lalita Pawar as Manthara
• Sulakshana Khatri as Mandavi
• Anjali Vyas as Urmila
• Poonam Shetty as Shrutakirti
• Arvind Trivedi as Ravana / Sage Vishrava
• Vijay Arora as Indrajit
• Nalin Dave as Kumbhakarna
• Mukesh Rawal as Vibhishana
• Aparajita Bhooshan as Mandodari
• Mulraj Rajda as Janak, king of Mithila
• Urmila Bhatt as Sunaina, Janak's wife, queen of Mithila
• Chandrashekhar as Sumanta
• Shyamsundar Kaalaani as Sugriva / Vali
• Vijay Kavish as Shiva / Valmiki/Mayasura
• Murari Lal Gupta as Akampana
• Ramesh Goyal as Maricha
• Rajshekhar as Jambavan
• Bashir Khan as Angada / Prahasta
• Bandini Mishra as Parvati
• Sudhir Dalvi as Vasishta
• Anita Kashyap as Trijata
• Shrikant Soni as Vishwamitra

See also

References

Footnotes

• Karp, Jonathan and Williams, Michael. "Reigning Hindu TV Gods of India Have Viewers Glued to Their Sets." The Wall Street Journal, 22 April 1998
• Lutgendorf, Philip (1991). The Life of a Text: Performing the Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-06690-1. 
• Lutgendorf, Philip (1990). "Ramayan: The Video". TDR/The Drama Review. The MIT Press. 34 (2): 127–176. ISSN 1054-2043. JSTOR 1146030. doi:10.2307/1146030. 
• Lutgendorf, Philip (2006). "All in the (Raghu) Family: A Video Epic in Cultural Context". In Hawley, John Stratton; Narayanan, Vasudha. The Life of Hinduism. The Life of Religion. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 140–157. ISBN 978-0-520-24913-4. 
• National Endowment for the Humanities. "Lessons of the Epics: The Ramayana". EdSITEment Lesson Plans. Available online from http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=599 (18 January 2006).

Rajagopal, Arvind, Politics After Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

External links

• Ramayan on IMDb