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Ramayan

Ramayan poster
Directed by
Ravi Chopra, Baldev Raj Chopra
Country
India
Elsewhere
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How it feels

This Hindi TV series retells the ancient Indian epic Ramayan. It follows the journey of Prince Rama as he battles the demon king Ravana to rescue his wife Sita. The story draws from multiple classic versions of the epic.

epicfamily-orientedreverentslow-pacedmythologicalsolemnclassicnostalgic

What happens

Ramayan is a Hindi TV series that was aired on Zee TV in 2001. It is a television adaptation of the ancient Indian epic of the same name, and is primarily based on Valmiki's Ramayana, Tulsidas Ramcharitramanas, Kalidasa's Raghuvaṃśa and Kambar's Kambh Ramayana. It was produced and directed by Baldev Raj Chopra and Ravi Chopra. The scripting for the series was done by Ram Govind and Research was done by Satish Bhatnagar, Hasan Kamal and Shafiq Ansari. Dharam Chopra was the Director of Photography. Each episode started with a title song sung by Vinod Rathod and ended with a doha or couplet sung by Manoj Mishra and written by Maya Govind. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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