Ramayan breaks all records, becomes most watched show in the world

New Delhi : Ramanand Sagar's TV serial 'Ramayan' broke all the records during its re-run on Doordarshan as 7.7 crore people watched it on April 16. DD India posted the news on its official Twitter handle on late Thursday night.

'Ramayan' is being telecast again since March 28 on public demand. In fact, when it was telecast for the first time, the serial had broken all records of popularity, and the show has repeated its history again.

Ramanand Sagar had made a total of 78 episodes of this serial based on Valmiki's Ramayana and Tulsidas' Ramcharitmanas.

First time ever, the show was telecasted in India way back from January 25, 1987 to July 31, 1988. At that time, the show used to get telecasted every Sunday at 9:30am.

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".