Ramanand Sagar (born Chandramauli Chopra) was an India

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. He is most famous for making the extremely popular Ramayan

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Ramayan is a highly successful Indian television series created, written, and directed by Ramanand Sagar. The 78-episode series originally aired weekly on Doordarshan from January 25, 1987, to July 31, 1988, on Sundays at 9:30 a.m...

television series, a television adaptation of the ancient Indian epic of the same name, starring Arun Govil

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 as Lord Ram

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 and Deepika Chikhalia

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Deepika Chikhalia is an Indian actress who rose to fame playing Sita in Ramanand Sagar's hit television series Ramayan. She met with limited success in films in the late 1980s and early 1990s...

 as Sita

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Sagar was born at Asal Guru-Ke near Lahore. His great-grandfather, Lala Shankar Das Chopra, migrated from Peshawar to Kashmir, who by his own strength became the ‘Nagar Shet’ of Kashmiri Chopras.