Phalke also wrote the film based on an episode of the Hindu epic Ramayana, credited to Valmiki.

As women were prohibited from taking part in commercial performing arts, men also played the female characters.

[3] Rama, the prince of Ayodhya, is exiled to the forests for a term of fourteen years.

Ravana, the demon king, who also wanted to wed Sita, decides to take revenge and abducts her from the forest.

According to film historian Amrit Gangar, coins from ticket counters were collected in gunny bags and transported on bullock carts to the producer’s office.