Throwback: Ramanand Sagar had THIS condition for roping in Arun Govil for Ram’s role in Ramayan

The ongoing lockdown to struggle COVID 19 doesn’t appear to finish any time quickly and it’s got every one in every of us holed up in our homes. And whereas all of us are craving to get again to our social life, the lockdown has include a particular shock for the viewers as a number of iconic exhibits from the 80s and 90s have returned on our tv screens. Amid this, Ramanand Sagar’s a lot talked about mythological present Ramayan, starring Arun Govil, Sunil Lahri and Dipika Chikhlia, has additionally returned after 33 years.

The present has been raking in an enormous TRPs throughout its re-run giving the workforce all the explanations to benefit from the success of the present. In truth, the lead solid has been making the headlines for his or her spectacular efficiency in Ramayan. We are definitely awestruck to look at Arun as Ram, Dipika as Sita and Sunil as Laxman. However, do you know that Arun was as soon as rejected by Ramanand Sagar for the function of Ram? It so occurred that Ramanand had a particular situation to rope in Arun for the function. Apparently, he was of the opinion that the particular person portraying the function of Lord Ram on the display shouldn’t have any unhealthy habits. As a end result, Arun gave up smoking to play the function of Ram in Ramayan.

Talking about Ramayan, the mythological drama has been breaking all of the TRP information throughout its re-run. Not simply Ramayan has turn into essentially the most watched program globally, it has even beat Game of Thrones’ closing episode which had stumped single evening viewing information in May 2019.