Before Nitesh Tiwari’s Ramayana lights up theatres this Diwali, another Ramayana story is set to release alongside it, and this one comes straight from the family that started it all. Shiv Sagar, grandson of legendary filmmaker Ramanand Sagar, is producing a behind-the-scenes documentary on the iconic 1987 television classic Ramayan, timed to arrive around the same period as the big-budget film adaptation.
He also shared a personal memory from visiting the sets in Umargam as a ten-year-old. “People from all over India would gather to see the shooting and the actors. Thirty thousand to forty thousand people would assemble outside the studio from across the country. It was a crazy phenomenon,” he recalled.
The documentary is expected to spotlight not just the technical hurdles the team overcame without green screens or CGI, but also the untold experiences of the women who worked behind the scenes on the original show, a part of the Ramayan legacy that’s rarely been discussed.
With the 1987 series having become one of the most-watched television programmes in the world during its 2020 re-telecast, decades after its original run, Shiv’s documentary arrives at a moment when interest in the original text is arguably at its highest in years. Ramayana: Part 1, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Sai Pallavi and Yash, releases in theatres this Diwali, November 6, 2026.
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