Ramanand Sagar

Director of the televised production of
the Ramayana, which was completed in
the late 1980s. The episodes were aired
each Sunday morning for about a year,
and were wildly successful despite problems with production quality. (Some of
these problems undoubtedly derived
from the difficulties of preserving the
immediacy of the oral experience of
traditional storytelling in the modern
medium of television.) In the mid-
1990s Sagar devoted his attention to
other mythological television serials,
with an extended series on the life of
the god Krishna.