Shrimad Ramayan

Shrimad Ramayan (transl. Holy Ramayana) is an Indian Hindi-language television series that premiered from 1 January 2024 to 9 August 2024 on Sony TV and airing on Sony SAB from 12 August 2024 to 10 March 2025. Produced by Siddharth Kumar Tewary under the banner of Swastik Productions, the series is based on the epic Ramayana. It stars Sujay Reu as Rama and Prachi Bansal as Sita.
The series showcases the life of Rama, the 7th incarnation of Lord Vishnu. It shows how he dealt with hardships in his life and how his life became an inspiration. It also showcases the ordeal and journey he went through to free his beloved wife, Sita (Incarnation of Goddess Lakshmi), from the rakshasa king Ravana, who abducted her. Lord Ram is born to King Dasharatha and Kaushalya while Bharat (incarnation of Vishnu's Shankha) is born to Kaikeyi and Lakshman (Sheshanaga) and Shatrughan (Sudarshan Chakra) are born to Sumitra. King Janak and Queen Sunayana get Sita from the Land. She grows up with her sister Urmila (Nagalakshmi) and cousins Mandavi (Lakshmi's Shankha) and Shrutkirti (Lakshmi's Chakra) and Sita lifts Lord Mahadev's Bow pinaka. After growing up Ram and Lakshman defeat Tataka and her sons with the guidance of Sage Vishwamitra and reaches Mithila. Ram - Sita, Bharat - Mandavi, Lakshman - Urmila and Shatrughan - Shrutkirti get married. Manthara, along with Kaikeyi sends them to exile. The rest of the story is about the difficulties and hardships they faced during and after the exile and how Lord Ram defeated Ravan without leaving Dharma(righteousness).The show then focuses on Lav and Kush, The sons of Lord Ram And Goddess Sita and their Reunion. Goddess Sita spends 12 years into he forest nurturing Lav and Kush as Sita is sent once again on exile when a launder questions Sita's purity. She lives in Lord Valmiki's Aashram. Lav and Kush eventually engage in war with Lord Ram without knowing Goddess Sita is their mother and Lord Ram is their father, this leads to the family's reunion but Sita's purity is once again in question so Sita returns to mother earth. As the time of Lord Ram's departure from mortal world nears, lakshman takes jal samadhi and returns to Sheshnaag form. Lord Ram later crowns Lav as King of North Ayodhya with Lavpuri as his capital kingdom and Kush is crowned as King of South Ayodhya with Kushavati as his capital kingdom. The sons of Bharat, Lakshman and Shatrughan are also given their respective kingdom's to rule. Bharat's son elder Pushkala ruled over Pushkalavati and younger son Taksha ruled over Takshila. Lakshman' s elder son Angad was given kingdom of Karupada and younger son Chandraketu ruled over a Kingdom named Chandrakanta. Shatrughna's elder son Subahu ruled over Madhupur and younger son, Shatrughati was crowned as King of Vidisha. At last Ram, Bharat and Shatrughna take jal samadhi while Hanuman and Vibhishan are asked to stay in mortal world until Lord Vishnu takes their final avatar in Kal Yug and help him in re-establish dharma in Kal Yug.
Siddharth Kumar Tewary announced Shrimad Ramayan, that is produced under his banner Swastik Productions in August 2023. It is an adaptation of the epic Ramayana, and is based on Valmiki's Ramayana and Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas. In December 2023, Tewary stated that criticism to film Adipurush, was one of the reason to make the show. He added,
The team of Shrimad Ramayan also visited Ayodhya, before the launch of the series.
Sujay Reu and Prachi Bansal were cast as Rama and Sita respectively. The series marks Reu's third and Bansal's second project with the production house. Basant Bhatt and Vaidehi Nair were cast as Lakshmana and Urmila. Nirbhay Wadhwa was cast as Hanuman, in his fourth on-screen portrayal of the character.
In October 2023, Nikitin Dheer joined the cast as Ravana, marking his television comeback after 5 year. Aarav Chowdhary was cast as Dashratha. Nikhilesh Rathore was then cast as Bharata and Samarthya Gupta was cast as Shatrughna. Later, Anandi Tripathi was cast as Kaushalya, Bhawna Aneja as Sumitra and Shilpa Saklani as Kaikeyi. Neetu Pandey was cast as Kaikasi.
In January 2024, Gurpreet Bedi was cast to play Mandodari and Garima Jain was cast to play Ahalya. Sangeeta Odwani was cast to play Shurpanakha and Arjun Kumar was cast to play Vidyutjiva. Later, in February 2024, Rushiraj Pawar was cast to play Meghanada. In March 2024, Malhar Pandya was cast in the dual role of brothers Sugriva and Vali. In September 2024, Atharv J Jhony and Shourya Mandoriya were cast as Kusha and Lava respectively.
The series set covering 10 acres of land in Umargam, Valsad, Gujarat, is designed by art director Omung Kumar. Costume designer of the series is Shibapriya Sen. Sita's wedding look included 15kg lehenga and 15meter long head trail. The hand-made embroidery took 3 days and 18 hours, with the entire lehenga taking 5 days to complete. Sen added,
Shrimad Ramayan is mainly shot in Umargam in Gujarat and has a high production and VFX value.
Since May 2024, Shrimad Ramayan has been dubbed in other languages such as in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. It is broadcast on Sun TV Network's group of channels in the respective languages. The show is also dubbed in Bengali language and is broadcast on Sony Aath since October 2024.
The soundtrack of Shrimad Ramayan has been composed by Lalit Sen with lyrics written by Vinod Sharma. Subhadeep Das Chowdhury, Menuka Poudel, Vaibhav Gupta, Ananya Pal and Utkarsh Wankhede, the contestants of Indian Idol 14 have also sung a version of the title song.
Gayatri Nirmal from Pinkvilla stated, "The surprisingly fresh and convincing cast works. The rich storytelling and the VFX (visual effects) literally added life to the characters, and the dialogues, drawn from the original scripture of Valmiki, are both powerful and thought-provoking."