Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan rewrote rules of television

Ramanand Sagar was struggling with large-screen failures when Bhagwan Shri Ram showed him the way.

- Subhash K. Jha

Ramayan changed the Sagars’ lives. It’s not as if Ramanand Sagar had done no significant work before Ramayan. He had directed pathbreaking films like Paigham, Ghunghat, Zindagi, Aarzoo, Aankhen, Lalkaar, and Geet. In fact, he started as the screenplay and dialogue writer of Raj Kapoor’s Barsaat in 1949. He had an impressive body of work in cinema that would have ensured a place for him in cinema history.

But then, at the end of his career, he decided to change his destiny. One morning, the patriarch of the Sagar family gathered the family members to make the announcement. Papa