FILM DIRECTOR

Ramanand Sagar

1917 - 2005

Photo of Ramanand Sagar

Icon of person Ramanand Sagar

Ramanand Sagar (born Chandramauli Chopra; 29 December 1917 – 12 December 2005) was an Indian director, producer, and writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ramanand Sagar has received more than 1,906,501 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ramanand Sagar is the 976th most popular film director (up from 1,298th in 2019), the 74th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 84th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Pakistani Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ramanand Sagar ranks 976 out of 2,041Before him are Tony Kaye, Vatroslav Mimica, Nanni Loy, Fyodor Khitruk, Michel Boisrond, and Gary Ross. After him are Mario Camus, Gregg Toland, Hamilton Luske, Christopher McQuarrie, Louis Daquin, and Kurt Maetzig.

Most Popular Film Directors in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Ramanand Sagar ranks 234Before him are Simon Slåttvik, J. L. Mackie, Helena Rasiowa, Sidney Nolan, Fyodor Khitruk, and Robert Lowell. After him are James Donald, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Robert Fano, Ibrahim Shams, Madeleine Robinson, and Joseph Wresinski. Among people deceased in 2005, Ramanand Sagar ranks 218Before him are Cliff Allison, Devan Nair, Giuliano Bonfante, Pierre Daninos, Attilio Giovannini, and Jan Nowak-Jeziorański. After him are Harrison Young, Éva Novák-Gerard, Michalina Wisłocka, Karen Lancaume, Jan Pieter Schotte, and José Beyaert.

Others Born in 1917

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 2005

Go to all Rankings

In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Ramanand Sagar ranks 74 out of 217Before him are Prithviraj Kapoor (1906), Zafarullah Khan Jamali (1944), Vinod Khanna (1946), Shahid Khan (1950), Raaj Kumar (1926), and Bahlul Lodi (1406). After him are Art Malik (1952), Sultan Bahu (1630), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), Balraj Sahni (1913), Yousaf Raza Gillani (1952), and Muhammad Mian Soomro (1950).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Pakistan

Among film directors born in Pakistan, Ramanand Sagar ranks 3Before him are Gulzar (1934), and Yash Chopra (1932). After him are Shekhar Kapur (1945), Ramesh Sippy (1947), Chetan Anand (1915), Govind Nihalani (1940), and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (1978).

Filmography

Barsaat
Director
Two friends with opposite personalities, the rich but sensitive Pran and the womanizing Gopal both have affairs with two mountain girls while holidaying in the valley of Kashmir. While Pran and Reshma's love is true and reciprocated, Gopal is a womanizing villain, who disregards the faithful Neela and condemns her to wait faithfully for his return with the barsaat (rainy season).
रामायण
Director
Ramayan is a highly successful and phenomenally popular Indian epic television series created, written, and directed by Ramanand Sagar. The 78 episode series originally aired weekly on Doordarshan from 25 January 1987, to 31 July 1988, on Sundays at 9:30 a.m. IST. It is a television adaptation of the ancient Indian Hindu religious epic of the same name and is primarily based on Valmiki's Ramayan and Tulsidas' Ramcharitmanas. It is also partly derived from portions of Kamban's Ramavataram and other works.
Alif Laila
Director
Alif Laila is a TV series based on the stories from The Arabian Nights. It was produced by Sagar Films. It was made in two seasons. The first season was aired on DD National and the second SAB TV. Later, it was also aired on ARY Digital, BTV, and ETV. The Series starts right from the very beginning when Scheherazade starts telling stories to Shahryar. Alif Laila contains both the well-known and the lesser-known stories from One Thousand and One Nights which are mentioned here. Actual word is "Alf Laila" meaning thousand nights.