'Ramayan' retelecast garners highest ratings for a Hindi show since 2015

Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayan, which retuned to DD National during 21-day nation-wide lockdown, garnered highest-ever rating for a Hindi General Entertainment Channel (GEC) programme since 2015 when Broadcasting Audience Research Council (BARC) started measuring television audience, an official statement released by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Thursday said.

Ramayan's repeat telecast tops charts 

Doordarshan has been entertaining people who are keeping mselves at home, by broadcasting old classics. In wake of countrywide lockdown for 21 days to deal with Covid-19 outbreak, public service broadcaster decided to retelecast mythological serial of 80s – Ramayan and Mahabharat.

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On public demand, Doordarshan has also reintroduced some of its or famous serials like Shaktimaan, Shriman Shrimati, Chanakya, Dekh Bhai Dekh, Buniyaad, Circus and Byomkesh Bakshi on DD National and along with Mahabharat, it has also reintroduced Alif Laila and Upanishad Ganga on DD Bharati, statement said.

Ramayan was back on television on last Saturday, recalling for many those epic mornings an ago when entire families, and even neighbours, gared before clunky television boxes for ir weekly fix of television and religion.

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streets were empty, as y were nearly three decades ago when Ramanand Sagar’s serial that brought to life in vivid colour story of ble prince and his 14-year exile began airing every Sunday. n, it was about people glued to television screens, some even praying before it, planning ir day around that one hour a week and making sure y go where. w, it is about a lockdown in a high tech efficient world of 24-hour entertainment as India and world battle coronavirus pandemic. government’s anuncement that it would rerun show on DD National at 9 am and 9 pm every day brought back stalgia for times that were simpler and TV viewing was about community.

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