World's most-watched mythological serial 'Ramayan' breaks all records with 7.7 crore viewership

After the Government of India announced nation-wide lockdown for 21 days at first to contain the spread of novel coronavirus, it also decided to re-telecast decades old mythological show 'Ramayan' for the entertainment of public.

Soon after the show was telecasted, it reminded everyone of good old days of the 90's. Ramanand Sagar' popular TV serial Ramayan has become the world's most watched show on April 16, engaging 7.7 crore viewers altogether.

Interestingly, the show garnered the same amount of love that it had earned decades ago. On March 28, re-telecast of Ramayan was started on public demand. And this time, the show had broken all the previous records of popularity and repeated its history again. 

DD India posted on its official Twitter handle on late Thursday night. 

Director Ramanand Sagar had made a total of 78 episodes of the show based on Valmiki's Ramayana and Tulsidas' Ramcharitmanas. 

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For the first time in the country, the serial was originally broadcast from January 25, 1987, to July 31, 1988. Then, every Sunday, at 9.30 a.m. the show was aired on TV. From 1987 to 1988, ''Ramayan'' became the most-watched serial in the world.

Till June 2003, it remained recorded in the Limca Book of Records as "the most-watched mythological serial in the world".