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The popular Ramanand Sagars television series ‘Ramayan’, which is broadcasting in Doordarshan, became the most watched show in the world on April 16 with 7.7 million viewers, DD India posted on its official Twitter account on Thursday. at night.
‘Ramayan’ has been broadcasting again since March 28 by public demand. In fact, when it was first broadcast, the series had broken all popularity records, and the show has repeated its story again.
Ramanand Sagar had made a total of 78 episodes in this series based on Ramayana from Valmiki and Ramcharitmanas from Tulsidas.
For the first time in the country, the series originally aired from January 25, 1987 to July 31, 1988. Then, every Sunday at 9:30 a.m., the show was broadcast on television.
From 1987 to 1988, ‘Ramayan’ became the most watched series in the world. Until June 2003, it remained registered in the Limca Book of Records as “the most viewed mythological series in the world”.
Interestingly, when the series first began airing in the country, people used to stay glued to televisions. Since there were fewer televisions in homes, most people used to gather at a neighbor’s place to watch ‘Ramayan’.