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When Ram visited Ayodhya; well, sort of!
Updated On: 13 August, 2019 07:40 AM IST | | Mayank Shekhar
Observing the launch of the TV epic Ram Siya Ke Luv Kush held on the banks of river Sarayu
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Himanshu Soni, Shivya Pathania, child actors Harshit Kabra and Krish Chauhan enter the show launch on a boat at Guptar Ghat
What's common to Malgudi and Ayodhya? River Sarayu flows through both. While Malgudi is a fictional town created by writer RK Narayan (made popular by the '80s TV show Malgudi Days), present-day Ayodhya, like any other small-town in Uttar Pradesh, is of course an unrecognisably pale shadow of what may have been imagined as Lord Ram's capital by the same name, in the epic Ramayan. Be that as it may, Guptar Ghat, on the banks of Sarayu, going through a makeover, much like Mumbai's Bandstand, is the most apt setting/venue that the TV channel Colors could've come up with to unveil their massive, multi-crore rendition of the Ramayan — Ram Siya Ke Luv Kush.
Guptar Ghat is, in fact, in the town Faizabad, with a fair mix of neat/green Cantonment areas, and general civic chaos, and congestion. Of which Ayodhya was a part. Now the entire district has been renamed Ayodhya. "It's like calling Mumbai, Bandra or Borivali," a local wit tells us. The banks are flanked by two Ram temples, in rather dilapidated conditions. But the buzz on the promenade, like with any windy waterfront, is palpable — people milling around in the evening, attacking bhuttas (corn cobs), clicking selfies…
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