He is best known for his contribution to the television serials Ramayan (1987–1988) and Shri Krishna (1993–1999), which broke several viewership records globally.

Ramanand was adopted by his maternal grandmother, who had no sons, at which point his name was changed from 'Chandramouli Chopra' to 'Ramanand Sagar'.

Sagar worked as a peon, truck cleaner, soap vendor, and goldsmith apprentice during the day and studied for his degree at night.

Gemini's owner SS Vasan was impressed with Sagar's professionalism and advised him to directed films again.

Under the Vasan's tutelage, Sagar directed Ghunghat (1960) and Zindagi (1964) for Gemini Studio which were successful commercially and critically.

The first film under the Sagar Arts banner was Rajendra Kumar, Sadhana and Feroz Khan starrer Arzoo, which became a blockbuster.

In 1979, his directorial venture Prem Bandhan starring Rajesh Khanna, Rekha and Moushmi Chatterjee was successful commercially, becoming the sixth highest-grossing film of that year.

In 1982, he directed Baghavat starring Dharmendra, Hema Malini and Reena Roy which turned out to be a huge hit.

[9] Based on his experiences of the Indo-Pak partition, Sagar published the Hindi-Urdu book Aur Insaan Mar Gaya (transl.

This book is a biography of Ramanand Sagar depicting his life struggles and his journey from a clerk to one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.

[10][11] He was married to Leelavati, with whom he had five children, four sons (Anand, Prem, Moti and Subhash) and a daughter (Sarita).