Did You Know Breaking Bad Star Bryan Cranston Voiced For Lord Rama In 1993 Film 'Ramayana'?
If you have grown up in India in the '90s and '00s, we are sure you are well-acquainted with?animated film Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama. The movie which was made on the 40th anniversary of Indo-Japanese diplomatic relations never released in Indian theatres but was telecasted on Cartoon Network regularly.?Not many people know that Japanese film director?Yugo Sako was behind it.?
Bryan Cranston as Lord Rama in?Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama
Yugo Sako co-directed the movie along with?Ram Mohan and Koichi Saski. Did you know?Bryan Cranston aka Walter White aka?Heisenberg voiced for Lord Rama in the English version??
While the Hindi version of the movie had?Arun Govil voicing for Lord Rama, Amrish Puri as Raavan and Namrata Sawhney as Sita, the English dubbed version had Nikhil Kapoor, Uday Mathan and Rael Padmasee voicing for the respective roles.
The film in United States was released as?Warrior Prince?or?The Prince of Light: The Legend of Ramayana. This version was heavenly edited so that the American audience could easily understand the Indian mythological story. It is in this version, that Bryan Cranston voiced Lord Rama and Tom Wyner as Ravana.?
You can listen to?Bryan Cranston voicing Lord Rama in the movie trailer below.
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For the unversed, the idea of the movie came to?Yugo Sako while working on the documentary?The Ramayana Relics?in 1983,?a documentary film about excavations by Dr. B. B. Lal near Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh. At that time, he found the epic so interesting that he read 10 versions of it in Japanese.?
Sako then decided to collaborate with?Indian animator Ram Mohan for the movie.?"Because Ram is God, I felt it was best to depict him in animation, rather than by an actor," he said in an interview.
Producer of the film Krishna Shah said, "Anyone can tell a story because Ramayana is a plot-oriented tale, but the key to Sako is that he finds humanity in his characters. Indeed, this is not a cardboard Ramayana, and the characters from Ram to Hanuman to Kumbkharna are three-dimensional ones. Sometimes, you forget these are merely animated figures, for the film almost has a lush, David Lean kind of ambiance."
While?Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama is considered a serious film in Japan, in India, it is still seen as a children's movie.
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