The show was originally aired between 1987 and 88 and was based on Tulsida’s Ramcharitmanas and Valmiki’s Ramayan. Sat Plus’s Mahabharat featuring Sourabhraaj, Shaheer Sheikh, Pooja Sharma also managed to hook the viewers to the TV screen and got TRPs roaring.Ĭreated, written and directed by Ramanand Sagar, the TV show Ramayan also starred Sunil Lahri as Lakshman, Dara Singh as Hanuman and Arvind Trivedi as Ravana.

The success of Ramayana brought back the other epic TV show Mahabharat, Shri Krishna and other popular shows like Shaktiman, Bomkyesh Bakshi. The following week it garnered 580 million impressions for morning rerun and 835 million impressions for evening telecast. Ramayana became the highest-rating rating show for a Hindi General Entertainment Channel since 2015. In two weeks DD National clocked record 7.7 crore viewers all across the world where it was aired.

To encourage people to stay at home, Minister of Information & Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar announced the return of the show in March and several netizens, ministers shared screenshots of watching the show. A post shared by Dipika was broadcasted on national TV last year where the nation went on coronavirus-induced lockdown and shooting for TV soaps, movies were stalled indefinitely.