Ahead of Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan rerun on TV, a look at major revelations made by the cast in The Kapil Sharma Show

Ramanand Sagar's divine saga Ramayan is all set for a TV rerun on public demand from July 3. The ongoing debacle of Adipurush made the viewers demand a 'National Detox' by airing Ramayan again. Looking back at the time when the cast of Ramayan, Arun Govil, Dipika Chikhlia and Sunil Lahri made some shocking revelations in The Kapil Sharma Show:

After Ramayan, Arun Govil, who played the role of Ram, was shooting for a mythological film with South's popular actress Bhanupriya. Arun played Tirupati Balaji and he used to smoke back then so when he went to smoke a man from the crew came to him furiously. He recalled, "I hid behind a curtain on the set, and then a gentleman came there and he stared at me. I did not know what he said in his language, but I could understand from his gestures that he was just abusing me, and he was very upset with me."

The above image depicts Ram, Lakshman, and Sita observing 'vanvaas' (staying in the forest). They gave up on life's comforts and began living in the wilderness. The three actors - Arun Govil, Sunil Lahri, and Dipika - were seated beneath the tree rehearsing their lines and working on the situation. Later, their cameraman urged the cast and crew to leave the location and warned them that a snake had been strung on one of the tree's branches. Dipika Chikhklia recalled the incident, saying that they all ran for their lives after learning of the snake's presence at the location of the shot.

Actor Arun Govil, who is till date remembered as Ram from the serial "Ramayan," recounted on The Kapil Sharma Show that the cast of the show was asked for sensual photoshoots. "While we were shooting 'Ramayan,' a variety of prestigious magazines approached me and the other cast members to do sensual photoshoots for them." They were so desperate that they were willing to pay exorbitant prices for it. But none of us took their offers because we believed that our audiences looked up to and trusted us. We could never risk betraying their trust for money," Arun shared.

While sharing anecdotes in TKSS, Arun Govil who played Lord Ram revealed incredible real-life experiences. When Arun Govil and his wife were crossing a street in Mauritius, a few people recognised him from Ramayan and got out of their cars to do Shashtang Dandavat Pranam in the middle of the road.

Dipika Chikhalia, who rose to fame as goddess Sita, had to live up to her onscreen character's persona in real life as well. She revealed on The Kapil Sharma Show that she was pretty young when she played Mata Sita and that she had to wear a saree both on and off film to maintain the character's purity. She shared an incident when the flight attendant wasn't ready to believe that Dipika had two daughters and kept insisting she had two sons Luv Kush. They also believed that Arun Govil was her husband in reality.

When asked about when they came to know about the popularity of Ramayan, Dipika Chikhlia shared that the cast got to know about their popularity after 3 months after the show's telecast when they were called by the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to Delhi for felicitation.

Arun Govil and Dipika Chikhlia shared a heart-touching experience when around one million people gathered at 10 km wide Banaras Ghat just to see a glimpse of the three artists Arun Govil, Dipika Chikhalia and Sunil Lahri in the attire of the Shree Ram, Mata Sita and Laxman. The ghats were overfilled with people and it made newspaper headlines.

Talking about the success and popularity of Ram's character Arun Govil shared how a lot of magazines were ready to give him any fee he demanded just for one picture holding a glass filled with alcohol. Arun revealed that he refused to do any such shoot till he was a part of Ramayan. Talking about parties, Arun went to one such Bollywood party where all renowned actors were present and they bowed down with folded hands when he entered.

The show Ramayan garnered 650 million viewers and was broadcast in 55 countries, breaking the Limca Book record for the most watched mythological series in Indian history.