When Ramayan's Lord Ram aka Arun Govil spoke about how "A variety of magazines offered them exorbitant money to do sensual photoshoots but they refused"

Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan has been a milestone for all the actors who were a part of the show. Especially when it comes to Arun Govil who played Lord Ram, things turned completely different for him after the show. In the recent podcast, Arun opened up about how the TV show Ramayan turned out to be a boon and bane for him.

In the recent podcast, Arun Govil opened up about his tale with Ramayan, he shared, "Ramayan was destined for me. When I came to know that Sagar sahab was making Ramayan, I still have no clue why I had a thought in my mind that I had to play Lord Ram in the show. I went to Sagar sahab and told him about it. He said, "We will let you know." Although, he knew my acting capacity as I had worked with him."

In those days, Mythology used to be a non-grade kind of content. People in the industry wouldn't validate mythological films and when we talk about serials, there were no expectations. A lot of people also asked me why I wanted to do Mythology as I was doing well with commercial films and I was busy with them.

Sagar sahab took my audition and outrightly rejected me. I was told to do any other role in the show. I told them, "I didn't want to do any role, I wanted to play Ram and experience it. If I am not worthy of it then it's ok." They selected someone else and a few months passed. One day Sagar sahab called me and shared that the selection committee said that I was the best choice and that is how I got the show.

Ramayan's response was good and bad. I received a lot of respect and love but I got completely removed from commercial films. The makers and producers told me that they saw me in Ram's avatar and they can't see me in any character. For an actor, this is not good.

The negative effect of Ramayan stayed with me for years as I didn't know what to do. I didn't get films and TV was growing so I started doing grey shades to break that image. Looking at myself in those roles I started feeling that I wasn't doing something good.

After Ramayan, Arun Govil 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."

Actor Arun Govil, who is till date recognized and remembered as lord Ram from the show "Ramayan," recalled 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.

Arun Govil, who played Lord Ram, revealed incredible real-life experiences as he shared an incident. 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 too. She shared that she was quite 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.

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.