This is where Siya Ke Ram wins with quite a margin. Sita Left to right: Deepika Chiklis, Debina Bonnerjee and Madirakshi Mundle in Ramayan (1986), Ramayan (2008) and Siya Ke Ram. Always super angry, super romantic or super gentle, if that is even possible for anyone to be. Gurmeet Chaudhary, however, was always over the top at everything he did. One can have no complaints against his acting which is always up to the mark and never too loud. But he does look a lot more like a prince than Arun Govil. It was so gentle and calming, you could actually listen to him with your eyes closed and attain spiritual bliss.Īshish Sharma is a muscular, powerful Ram with a perennial pokerface. While Gurmeet and Ashish are more or less of the same age, Arun Govil looked like a Ram in his 40s.Īrun Govil’s voice was his biggest asset. One very noticeable pattern in all these character comparisons will be how the actors just keep getting younger and younger. Ram Left to right: Arun Govil, Gurmeet Chaudhary and Ashish Sharma in Ramayan (1986), Ramayan (2008) and Siya Ke Ram. However, apart from these two, Sagar Arts made another rather miserable attempt at Ramayan in 2008 with NDTV Imagine and we will talk about it too.
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Over the years, I have managed to watch the countless reruns of the show and on the basis of that, here is a comparison between the 1986 series and the 2015 series. Read: This 1992 Ramayana inspired more Hollywood movies than you’d believe! Or at least that is what my parents have told me as it was long before I was even born.
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Streets would go bare, people would dine earlier than usual just to make it in front of the TV in time. The show was so incredibly popular, it even got its name on the Limca Book of Records for the World’s most watched mythological series. In 1986, exactly 30 years ago, Ramanand Sagar too caught the right nerve when he decided to televise the epic. Yes, it is more often Hindu mythology than anything else but the viewers don’t seem to mind.Ĭurrently, the Hindi TV scene is riddled with mythological and historical shows and guess which one is more popular than all of them combined? Another adaptation of Valmiki’s holy text of Ramayana, Siya Ke Ram.
Whenever TV channels are in doubt about what they should feed their viewers that isn’t the same, run-of-the-mill saas-bahu saga, they take shelter in mythology. This is a gift that just keeps on giving.