Hindi Ramayan

I was watching regularly the Ramayan that was telecast in Zee TV a few weeks back. Nitish Bharadwaj was Rama and the serial went very fast. A really welcome step.

I liked two things in this version:

When all the monkeys drop the stones written with the word 'Ram' (written by Nala, one of the monkeys, who had a special boon to that effect), they all float (enabling Ram to have a bridge to walk to Srilanka). To test his own power, Ram leaves a stone without his name and alas, it just drowns. He is surprised and tells Hanuman that when the stone with his name is left in water, it floats - but when he leaves the stone, it just drowns. Hanuman replies: "If you decide to leave something, there is no life for that - it will just drown".

After Ram slains Ravana, the latter is in the death bed and Ram instructs Lakshmana to go get pieces of advice from Ravana, since he (Ravana) is considered a great scholar and Lakshman obeys that.

Good ones.