Ramanand Sagar’s son Prem Sagar died in Mumbai at the age of 84 after a prolonged illness. He was known for his work in prestigious TV serials like Ramayana and Alif Laila. His death ended an era of Indian television.
In the 1980s, Prem Sagar, son of Ramanand Sagar, to make a classic TV serial like ‘Ramayana’, was no longer Prem Sagar. He breathed his last at around 10 am on Sunday (31 August). He breathed his last at the age of 84. It is being told that Prem Sagar, who has been ill for a long time, was undergoing treatment at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai. The doctors asked the family to take him home on Sunday morning. But before that he said goodbye to the world. Prem Sagar was one of the five children of Ramanand Sagar. These include three sons Anand Sagar, Moti Sagar, Subhash Sagar and a daughter Sarita Sagar.
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Prem Sagar worked as a producer in his career as well as a cinematographer and still photographer. He learned the nuances of filmmaking from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in 1968. Under the banner of his father Ramanand Sagar, Sagar Arts, he worked as a still photographer and cinematographer for several projects.
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Prem Sagar will be remembered for these TV shows
Prem Sagar directed the ‘Alif Laila’ serial made under the banner of Sagar Arts with his brothers Anand Sagar and Moti Sagar. Lugand Sagar wrote the screenplay of the show, which telecasted from 1993 to 2002, while Prem Sagar’s brother Subhash Sagar was its producer. Prem Sagar telecasted ‘Kakbhushundi Ramayana’ and ‘Kamadhenu Gaumata’ in 2025, telecasted in 2024 as a producer. He had earlier also produced a serial named ‘Basera’ in 2009.
Prem Sagar was also associated with many films
Prem Sagar directed the film ‘Hum Tere Aashiq Hai’ released in 1979, in which actors like Jeetendra, Hema Malini, Sujit Kumar and Amjad Khan appeared. Apart from this, there are many other films including ‘Aankhen’ (1968), ‘Lalkar’ (1972) and ‘Charas’, in which they were not directors or producers, but were handling the camera somewhere as team members, were connected to the electrical department somewhere and were working as a cinematory.
Prem Sagar also wrote the book ‘N Epic: Ramanand Sagar from Barsaat To Ramayana’ on his father Ramanand Sagar, which was published in 2019.