:: 25th Anniversary Of Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan :: - Page 2

I was born 10 years after this great show started and hence, missed the golden period. I watched some episodes of Ramayana on star utsav and imagined Arun ji as Ram. I'm proud of my Indian mythology and it was a great step taken by Ramanand Sagar sir to start a show which truly reflected our incredible India. There is everything to learn from the great Ramayana and I'm really feeling proud today, on it's 25th year. Other shows didn't leave a great impact and the cartoon version is nothing but a disappointment.

Ramayana teaches the value of relationships and worship. Some scenes made us smile while some were tear-jerking.
Great post Janki di :)

Jai shree Ram

Jai hanuman

Originally posted by: lola610

Speaking of which, if you were little enough at the time, any specific scenes that got a funny reaction out of you? Like in my case hiding behind the sofa 'cuz of Tadaka and Shurpanakha, rewatching Kumbhkarn's breakfast every time I ate, and reenacting the gada fights between vaanars

Not exatly about the scenes, but the craze about Ramayan in general...

Originally posted by: visrom

Not exatly about the scenes, but the craze about Ramayan in general...

Actually at that time there used to be school book labels with Ramayan characters. My dad had bought some other normal labels. When one of my classmates showed me hers, I started pestering my dad to get the same labels for me too. My dad had to run from pillar to post to buy the labels. Then I pulled out all my old labels, tore the brown paper covers in the process, made my parents cover the books all over again and put the Ramayan labels on them.

Then there were a few left...which I took to school! 😆 Some of my friends wanted the extra labels...I made them do all sorts of favours in exchange for one label each. 🤣 Many became my 'best friends' for the labels. OMG we were all sooo crazy back then.

Will add more when I recollect some more incidents.

Beautiful Thread!

I fell in love with the Ramayan one summer, when I was just bored and a family friend offered to lend me the DVDs. I wasn't a religious person then, and was all meh, sure why not, but I started watching and was absolutely hooked! I finished the entire series in 3 days flat [imagine how much TV time that was 😆] But anywho, the Ramayan remains to this day my most favorite epic, and most of the credit goes to the RS Ramayan for portraying the story so well! And of course, the actors as well, who to this day I picture as Ram and Sita, etc.

Anywho, thanks for this wonderful thread! :) I can't wait till I buy the DVDs soon and start watching them all over again this summer! :)

Cheers!
Naina

Hari Anant Hari Katha Ananta, Kahahi Sunahi Bahuvidhi Sab Santa

Nanabhanti Ram Avtaara, Ramayan Satkoti Apaara

Pranaam! Wishing you a very very Happy 25^th Anniversary of our beloved Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan!

On this day, I am completely overwhelmed with a flood of emotion as this divine serial, the darling of my heart, has completed its silver jubilee! Oh! How long it was created, as per I know, it was the first ever Mythological Indian TV show, but how is its influence on us even today! This magic, I think, was due to the great devotion of Dr. Ramanand Sagar himself, that could be able to create such an eternal bliss in this show!

Today I am totally under the memory of my first meeting with Ramayan! 😍That experience was as pious as the Darshan of Shri Ram Himself! 😍 So pure its appearance was to me, & so deep was its devotional impact upon me! Here I must have to say that I loved the epic Ramayan from my very early childhood, (so early that I did not even learn then how to read but my family members recited Ramayan & I loved to listen to it, & it is Ramayan which grew the first interest within my heart about books) & I was a bookish & never watched any TV show before Ramayan. When I found a repeat telecast of Ramayan (which was dubbed in my mother tongue Bengali) on the year 2002, I became very happy to know that something about my dearest epic is going to be shown, 😊 (I am so much addicted to the story of Ramayan 😃) so for the first time I sat in front of TV & gradually became its fan. It was telecasted Monday to Friday. I was then a School girl of Class Seven, studies were tough enough compared to the previous lower classes but I used to be absent in School very often only for Ramayan 😛! When I guessed that an interesting scene is going to be telecasted I became reluctant to go to School & started to think over some unique excuse to be absent. I remember that one day, when Angad came to Ravan's court as shantidoot & just sat on his tail, electricity went off 🤢. I started to cry like an infant 😭. But Shri Ram was pleased with me & within 10 minutes the problem was solved 😃. The most difficult problem appears during Exam time, as an Exam can never be avoided, & I can clearly remember that the Shakti aghat episode was shown on my Exam period. It is one of my best places of Ramayan but I had to leave home for Exam. Thus I missed some episodes from my first watching 😔. I could not forget this pain that I have missed some parts of Ramayan. After few years I came to know that VCD of RSR is available in market. But there was neither DVD player nor Computer in my house. I was under virah of Ramayan. So I started to insist my parents to bring a Computer immediately. When I got the VCD set I felt I reached to Vaikunth Dham! Today I have a Computer & this is only for Ramayan! 😊 Today I have its VCD & I love to watch it again & again.

My watching process is quite abnormal. After completing the whole show with Luv-Kush, I stared to repeat it haphazardly. For instance, I watch the vivah scenes of Baalkand one day & Indrajit's battle on the next; Shri Ram's mahaprasthaan one day & the Sita haran scene on the next. Don't know why I love to do so; perhaps I feel its endlessness so greatly that it works on me like this.

I searched on Google about more information about RSR & then found the India Forums. Found the Fan Clubs & Chat Clubs & started to read them happily. I have known many new information that was unknown to me from these FCs & CCs. After a long time I created my IF account & now I am a member of this Mythological Masti Forum, & that is too for RS Ramayan as I found IF for the first time while googling on RSR 😊.

I know very little Hindi & it is RSR which taught me Hindi first. Though I make numerous mistakes while speaking Hindi myself 😆 but I can clearly understand if others speak Hindi with me. So it is another point that I am grateful to Ramayan 😊.

Each & every single part of this divine serial is very dear to me. If anyone asks me about my favorite scene/song/actor from Ramayan I feel very confused as I can not eliminate even a little glance of characters or a single dialog/music from my list of favorites! This show creates such a mohini maya on me that I forget everything except it while watching! I feel that the Treta Yug's characters are in front of me, I can never think them as actors! I feel each moment of the scenes, even the small & silent emotional parts too. Each silent expression of actors tells me lots of words, on which I think after watching it, & write in my own words what do I think about the unspoken feelings of that character. It is my usual routine to think on Ramayan. No other TV show has so much impact on me so far. That's why I am writing this & celebrating this day though I am very busy now with my Exam preparation.

My dearest serial Ramayan will continue its kingdom in people's heart forever. Though there is a remake of it the golden old version can never be forgotten due to its 200% perfection in all fields including direction, screenplay, acting & music. We can utter Valmiki's verse in support of this point,

"Yabat sthasyanti girayah saritashcha mahitale

Tabat Ramayankatha lokesu pracharisyati"

(As long the mountains & rivers will live on this earth, the legend of Ramayan will also exist.)

A bunch of thanks to Lalitha di & Lola for arranging such a beautiful thread!

Jai Shri Ram! Jai Shri Ramayan!

Thanks for all your inputs, guys, I'm really happy for this great milestone we've reached. :D Even after 25 years, this amazing epic is still remembered.

I am wondering where to start from. On such occasions, my mind is cluttered for a billion thoughts and I always fail to put them in words. It's just all very overwhelming! You both have done a WONDERFUL job, Lola and Jaanu. Kudos. And the sigs, they're just amazing beyond words.

Where do I begin about my journey with Ramayan ji. Until 2007 November, I was a firm believer of God and ofcourse shared a special relation with him. But I wasn't into mythological shows or scriptures or prayers etc. But I think that month and year, everything in my life had to change and in a big way. It was the starting of what I am today - An extremely religious person who feels TRULY truly blessed*infinity by God! *touchwood* I am very very thankful to all my Gods and Goddesses. That month and year were probably supposed to be the start of it all.

The very next year, in June 2008, I shifted to a different city for my studies. And if I am not wrong, it was around that time only that the two most epic shows of Indian television started airing after all those years again: Ramanand Sagar Ramayana and B.R. Chopra's Mahabharat. And well, guess what? Its January, 2012 and they air TODATE. Over and over again. They start, end and are restarted from the first episode again. Without fail. That itself says a lot about how immensely these shows are loved even toady. Along with RS Shri Krishna too.

My first memories of RS Ramayana have to be when I was 9 or 10 years of age when we had bought the cds and I watched some episodes with Ravana in it along with my brother and sisters on the VCR. Ofcourse, that time for me it was more about enjoying the evening milkshakes we used to get while watching the episodes 😆
But come 2008 and I started watching it as a religious person for whom God meant everything. Even above parents and family, friends. That was the first time I watched it properly and till date, I watch it over and over again. Like you said Jaanu, watching RS Ramayana has just become a part of life. YT'ing all the BEAUTIFUL songs full of devotion, trying to find Laxmanji&Urmila scenes, enjoying the marriage days episodes, watching the episodes after the time Shri Ram was exiled from Ayodhya and understanding the depth of relations and selfless-ness through those episodes.

There is a saying: ram ananth ananth gun ananth katha vistaar!
Meaning: bhagvaan ram ananth hain usi prakar bhagvan ram ki katha bhi ananth hai. jahan shabd aakar viram lete hain,vaheen se prabhu ram ka charitra prarambh hota hai.

I think that sholka says it all for me and what Ramayanaji and the show, episodes has taught me! Because just as Lord Ram's kathas and character can't be put completely in words ever, same way for me, it can't be put in words Ramayana ji has taught me. With every new episode, we have something learn. If I have to say in a few words as examples, I think it has taught me to be selfless, to always give, to never be selfish, to believe in God without even 1% of hestitation because God will never ever let any unjust happen to his true devotees. We saw that in the example of Sugreev. It has taught me to never support evil or bad directly or indirectly because in the end, good always wins and the one who follows the path of right will always emerge victorious. As did Vibhishana. And what to say about Hanuman ji's devotion towards Lord Ram. His pure and true devotion led to SiyaRamji sitting in his heart. And from that we learn that through real devotion, we will always have God with us, protecting us and blessing us.

Through Ramayana I have learnt how to conduct ourselves as humans on earth, it has taught me what is right and what is wrong be it in the smallest way or the biggest. Ramayana teaches us how to live. Bhagwatam teaches us how to make our death pure. So, yes, through Ramayana I have learnt to live. And I have learnt to be thankful for what I have. I have learnt to be thankful to God for EACH and everything. And to always always remember him every minute of my life. RadhaKrishna, SiyaRama and Lord Shiv are closest to my heart and I believe in them the most. I just want to take this moment again and ask them to please always be with me, to always bless me that I never leave their path. And to forever guide me on every step of my life.

I want to thank Ramanand Sagar and the whole crew involved in making this show a Lot for making it and but ofcourse the actors for playing their part so well and making every scene come so alive that it is like watching the real Ramayana. The dedication and efforts were there to see in every single frame of the show. It will be MEMORABLE ALWAYS and I will cherish this show for life.

I feel I can go on and on and on but perhaps later :) I want to end this by again thanking both Lola and Jaanu for making this lovely thread and for letting us re-live Ramayana with our fellow friends through this thread. Hope we can have some great discussions!<3 🤗 And also the sigmakers - thank you SO much for all the gorgeous siggies. Love each and everyone of them<3