India, Oct. 14 -- Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan and BR Chopra's Mahabharat are still considered benchmarks for mythological shows in India. Both series became huge successes and continue to be remembered fondly. However, Lalit Modi has revealed that Disney rejected a proposal to finance Ramayan, partly because Ramanand Sagar arrived for a meeting wearing shorts.

In a podcast with The Bharat Inc, Lalit revealed that Doordarshan had a policy at the time of not financing programmes, requiring their makers to pay a fixed hourly cost instead. He claimed that he had already built an ecosystem for marketing, distributing and producing content by collaborating with Disney and bringing international content to Indian television. According to Lalit, bo...