Ramayan (1987 TV series)
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Ramayan promotional poster
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| 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 |
| No. of episodes | 78 |
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| Running time | 35 minutes |
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| Original channel | Doordarshan |
| Original release | 25 January 1987 – 31 July 1988 |
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| 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.[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.[citation needed]
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.
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Cast[edit]
- 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 Ravan
- Vijay Arora as Indrajit
- Nalin Dave as Kumbhakarna
- Mukesh Rawal as Vibhishana
- Aparajita as Mandodari
- Mulraj Rajda as Janak
- Chandrashekhar as Sumanta
- Shyamsundar Kaalaani as Sugriva / Vali
- Vijay Kavish as Shiva / Valmiki
- Bandini Mishra as Parvati
- Sudhir Dalvi as Vasishta
- Anita Kashyap as Trijata
- Shrikant Soni as Vishwamitra
References[edit]
- ^ "Behind the scenes: Dress designers to actors & deities". The Tribune. 20 April 2003. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
- ^ "Ramayan to be back on small screen". Movie ndtv.
- ^ "NDTV Imagine to recreate ‘Ramayan’ magic". Media 247.
Footnotes[edit]
- 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. doi:10.2307/1146030. ISSN 1054-2043. JSTOR 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).
External links[edit]
- Ramayan at the Internet Movie Database
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