I, Amish, had read and heard the Ramayana in a bookish way. I knew the stories of the many versions of the epic but had not visited all the locations mentioned in it. I had travelled to and prayed at the temples in Ayodhya, Nashik, Anegundi, and Rameshwaram but had not ventured beyond these places on the fabled Ram Van Gaman path or the path of Lord Ram during exile. I had to depend on my friend, filmmaker Sujata Kulshreshtha, to bridge the gap between bookish knowledge and real-world experiences.
Travelling with our production team, we discovered many of these stories with wonder at places where the Ramayana is not just a story but is a living, breathing entity that animates life itself.