The Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayan has set a world record with 77mn views as of April 16 night. The rebroadcast of Ramayan has managed to smash all the records worldwide and it has become the most-watched show all over the world.
The Ramayan fans started comparing the show with the very popular English sitcom show The Big Bang Theory starring Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, Kunal Nayyar, Kaley Cuoco, and others. The back-to-back, two-episode finale of the nerdy sitcom’s 12-season run drew 18.5 mn live viewers on May 16, 2019. Game of Thrones had around 17.4 mn live views in its finale episode.
The Netizens started trending the hashtag #RamayanSetsWorldRecord on social media.
Here are some of the comments from the netizens:
Lets Start trend #RamayanSetsWorldRecord #RamayanWorldRecord
— Kiran Ahir ?? (@Kiranahirr) April 30, 2020
This is one of the best episodes of #Ramayana & most heart touching&emotional moment? This is where kids , adults , legends basically everyone cried? hats off to #RamanandSagar Ji..
#LuvKush #RamayanSetsWorldRecord
जय श्री राम ? pic.twitter.com/xEQNVV8mFh— Shubham (@proud_CA_soon) May 2, 2020
This moment has a different fanbase.
??❤❤#JaiShreeRam #RamayanWorldRecord #RamayanSetsWorldRecord pic.twitter.com/PfeYHjeUsc
— Sïyãppå Qúèéñ ??❤ (@MamtaXhoudhary) May 1, 2020
Ramayan’s rerun concluded on April 18 and was replaced with Uttar Ramayan, which features the story of Lord Ram and Sita’s twins Luv and Kush.
The most-watched GEC shows for last week were DD National’s Ramayan and Uttar Ramayan, DD Bharati’s Mahabharat, and Dangal’s Baba Aiso Var Dhundo and Mahima Shanidev Ki.
Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayana first started airing on Doordarshan from 1987 and went on till 1988. Even at that time, the show had a viewership like no other and earned a hefty amount for each episode. The Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayan starred Arun Govil, Deepika Chikhlia, Sunil Lahri, Arvind Trivedi, Sanjay Jog, Sameer Rajda, Dara Singh and Bal Dhuri in pivotal roles.
