All Indian Air Force Pilots are capable and well-read and educated, however, to identify a visionary person such as Ramanand Sagar during adversity perhaps only could be done by another visionary as the Pilot who later went out to be the Chief Minister of Orrisa, for the pilot of that Airlift was none other than Biju Patnaik. However Ramanand Sagar would not let go off it, the two entered into a verbal spat ending in enraging the pilot who threw open the trunk because of which its contents came out, upon seeing what was inside the trunk the pilot suddenly recognized Ramanand Sagar, the man who was already famous by then for write-ups such as Maut Ke Bistar Se or Diary Of A TB Patient for a Lahore daily, because the trunk which the pilot had thrown away had contained several pages of the yet to be published novel Aur Insaan Mar Gaya. The Rescue Actįrom being an heir apparent to a large piece/s of large real estate in Kashmir to being a director, producer in Bombay, the journey was not without its share of anecdotes, one such now-famous incident happened during 1947, when Ramanand Sagar amongst several others had to be airlifted as a fallout of the Indo Pak war for control of J&K, many people had to leave their belongings behind while being evacuated and so too had Ramanand Sagar, but he took along one of his belongings, a big trunk, the pilot of that airlift objected to it thinking that he is carring some extra luggage with and asked him to leave it behind before getting in the Aircraft.
Ramanand Sagar’s father Lala Dinanath Chopra was the landlord and held a zamindari of ~500 acres of land, perhaps an asset which passed down from generation to generation from their ancestors who were the Nagar Seth of Srinagar during the rule of Maharaja Gulab Singh.
The Making of Ramayan: The Television revolution Master and his beginningīorn in Lahore, Ramanand Sagar was named Chandramauli Chopra, a name for Lord Shiva, who is named so as the lord holds the crescent moon on the forehead.