
Social values" and that its message was "secular and universal".

GillĪdded that in a letter to Sagar, he had written about the Ramayana as a subject for the television series was ideal in that it was "a repository of moral and Gill wrote that it was during his tenureĪs the secretary with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in September 1985 that he contacted Ramanand Sagar in association with the project.

Writing for the Indian Express upon completion of the airing of the series' final episode, former bureaucrat S. Ramayan was regarded as the most expensive TV show produced during the time with a budget ₹9 Lakhs per episode.

Vijay Kavish as Shiva/ Valmiki/ Mayasura demon Adapted and based on the ancient Hindu epic Ramayana, the series follows the journey of Rama who goes to an exile of 14 years along with Sita and Lakshman.
