On Thursday, DD National on their official twitter handle posted that Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayan on Doordarshan become the world’s most-watched show on April 16.

The DD National wrote, “Rebroadcast of #Ramayana on #Doordarshan smashes viewership records worldwide, the show becomes most-watched entertainment show in the world with 7.7 crore viewers on 16th of April.”

The show was re-aired on Doordarshan since March 28 after the announcement of the lockdown. The show made history in earlier years also when it was originally telecasted on DD National during the year 1987-88. Then also it was the most-watched TV serial in the world and recorded as “the most-watched mythological serial in the world” in the Limca Book of Records.