![]() He decided to act upon a Kashmiri ascetic named Nityanand's prediction about him, writes Ramanand Sagar's son Prem Sagar in his book "An Epic Life: Ramanand Sagar: From Barsaat to Ramayan". The Sanskrit verses of Ramayan were understood very well by him. Ramanand Sagar was a gold medalist in Sanskrit and Persian from the University of Punjab in 1942. With Rajiv Gandhi's ascendance to power, the STD/ISD and IT revolution was ushered in and television sets became coloured.Īlong came a filmmaker who had stupendous ideas about what best to do with these assets. ![]() The 1982 Asiad had popularised the will to own a TV set. Films, dramas, parodies etc had taken centre-stage and no one realised that the most interesting tale of them had not been made for a long viewing purpose at all. Due to whatever reasons, Indian children had missed out on a sustained narration of the country's most revered epic - Ramayana. Ramanand Sagar's television saga - the mega serial Ramayan - was an extravaganza that beamed the epic right into the drawing rooms of a captive audience in the late 1980s. His epic TV serial Ramayan broke all records of TV viewing. ![]()
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