But he did look a lot more like a prince than Arun Govil. One could actually listen to him with your eyes closed and attain spiritual bliss.Īshish Sharma was a muscular, powerful Ram with a forever pokerface. While Gurmeet and Ashish were more or less of the same age, Arun Govil looked like middle-age Ram.Īrun Govil’s voice was his biggest asset which was gentle and calming. You will notice how all the actors just kept getting younger and younger with each new iteration. 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. Over the years, I have managed to watch the countless reruns of Ramayana and on the basis of that, here is a comparison between the 1986 series and the 2015 Star Plus series Siya Ke Ram.

So why do we favour them so much more over the others? However, these are not the only two versions of the epic to ever hit the screen. The two shows are back on the telly just a couple of days into the lockdown.

Many thought the shows will bring some respite from the tense environment created by the pandemic and give people more incentive to stay at home.Īnd their pleas were soon heard. Soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the 21-day lockdown to fight the coronavirus outbreak in the country, tweets started cropping up, asking Doordarshan to bring back the old epics, Ramayana and Mahabharat. While the reason for its return may not be the most wholesome, it sure arrives at a time when people could really use a big dose of nostalgia and the comfort of simpler times. The iconic 1986 television epic, Ramayana has come back to the small screen.

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