Deepika Chikhalia, who played the role of Sita in Ramayan, couldn't celebrate Diwali at her home for 4 years. She shared the reason for this in an interview and shared her experience when she celebrated Diwali on the set during the shooting.
Diwali, the festival of lights, is being celebrated with great pomp in the country and abroad. But many times due to some reasons, people are not able to celebrate this festival at their home. Something similar happened with Deepika Chikhalia, who played the role of Sita in Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan. Deepika recently told in an interview about why she couldn't celebrate Diwali at her home for 4 years. Let's know this whole story...
Couldn't celebrate Diwali for 4 years - Deepika Chikhalia
Deepika Chikhalia told that the Ramayan serial was shot in Umargaon near Maharashtra. This village was far away from the homes of the star cast and crew of the serial, so they did not get the opportunity to go home again and again. All the actors lived together in this village. Deepika told that the shooting of Ramayana lasted for about 4 years and during this time she got only 3-4 holidays. The situation was that she could not celebrate Diwali at her home during this period. The shooting schedule was so busy that it was difficult to go home, so everyone used to celebrate Diwali with diyas on the set itself.
Diwali sequence was shot for Ramayana
Deepika Chikhalia also told in the interview how the Diwali sequence was shot in the Ramayana serial. She said that this sequence was shot in about 7 days, in which all the actors and crew together lit diyas by taking the name of Ram. Deepika told that to shoot this Diwali sequence, the set of Ayodhya was prepared in Umargaon and every day it was decorated according to Diwali.
Most famous TV serial Ramayana
The Ramayana serial was produced, written and directed by Ramanand Sagar. This serial was broadcast on Doordarshan between 1987 and 1988, in which Ashok Kumar and Ramanand Sagar himself narrated its plot. The credit for its music goes to Ravindra Jain. Let us tell you that during this broadcast, it became the most watched television show in the world. It was rebroadcast on 20 different channels in 17 countries and more than 650 million viewers watched it.
One episode of Ramayana was made for 9 lakhs
According to media reports, an episode of Ramanand Sagar's Ramayana was made for Rs 9 lakh and Doordarshan earned Rs 40 lakh from each episode. In Ramayana, the role of Ram was played by Arun Govil, the role of Laxman was played by Sunil Lahiri, the role of Sita was played by Deepika Chikhalia, the character of Ravana was played by Arvind Trivedi and the role of Hanuman was played by Dara Singh. Apart from these, Sanjay Jog, Sameer Rajda, Bal Dhuri, Jayshree Gadkar, Padma Khanna, Rajnibala, Anjali Vyas, Vijay Arora, Lalita Pawar and other actors also played important roles.
