hey guys!!! today on zee news they showed a report titled "pardes mein ramayan"..
in which they showed that ramayan is also followed in countries like indonasia ,bali etc with full faith as in india... and is staged just like ramlila in india...
in their form of ramayan...ramji is called RAMA, sitaji as SHINTA, ravan as RAHVAN, kishkinda as KISANDO...AND lakshman as LUXMAN
and in it all the warriors like ramji,hanuman and ravan etc r all expert in martial arts and on stage they r dressed as bharatnatyam dancers and dances and perform martial arts...
the local people immensely beleives in ramayan and feels that ramayn is a part of theier tridition as well as their ramayan is a translation of valmiki ramayan....