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Chandrakanta 
The main lead of Chandrakanta: Shahbaaz Khan as Prince Virendra Singh & Shikha Swaroop as Princess Chandrakanta.Format Fantasy, Historical Written by Devaki Nandan Khatri Directed by Sunil Agnihotri & Nirja Guleri Creative director(s) Salim Arif Starring Refer Caste of Characters Opening theme "Chandrakanta" by Sonu Nigam Country of origin India Language(s) Hindi No. of seasons 1 No. of episodes Total 73 Production Producer(s) Nirja Guleri Camera setup Multi-camera Running time Approx. 52 minutes Broadcast Original channel DD National (Original);
Sony TV (Syndicated)Picture format 480i (SDTV) Original run 1994 – 1996 Chronology Followed by Kahani Chandrakanta Ki Chandrakanta is an Indian fantasy television series partly based on Devaki Nandan Khatri's novel Chandrakanta. It was originally telecast on Doordarshan in the early 1995 and was produced by Nirja Guleri and directed by Sunil Agnihotri.
The serial was controversially pulled off air by Doordarshan in 1996 and the producers had to file a suit in court for reinstatement.[1] It later enjoyed reruns on Star Plus and Sony Entertainment Television.[2]
Contents
Cast of characters
- Shahbaaz Khan as Prince Virendra Singh
- Shikha Swaroop as Princess Chandrakanta
- Mukesh Khanna as Janbaaz, Also as Meghavat in later part of the story
- Parikshit Sahani as Maharaja Surendra Singh (King of Naugarh)
- Pankaj Dheer as Shiv Dutt
- Durga Jasraj as Rani Kalawati
- Rajendra Gupta as Pandit Jagannath/Shani (his twin brother, a villain)
- Akhilendra Mishra as Kroor Singh aka Yakoooo
- Irrfan Khan as Badrinath/Somnath (his twin brother)
- Krutika Desai as Sabya/Ramya (twin sister of Sabya)/Amba(Vish Kanya)/Jwala
- Kalpana Iyer as Dum Dumi Maai
- Rupa Ganguly as Damini
- Nimay Bali as Surya
- Mamik as Deva, false Surya
- Varsha Usgaonkar as Roopmati (Snake Queen)
- Anu Dhawan as Tara (Vish Kanya)
- Roopal Patel as Jamuna
- Vinod Kapoor as Amarjeet Singh/Barkat Khan
- Brownie as Ajagar
- Asif Shekh as Naagmani Devata (Snake King)
- Surendra Pal as King of Vijaygarh
- Pradeep Singh Rawat as Himmat Singh
- Arun Mathur as Vaidh Baba (Damini's father)
- Deepak Parashar as Devdutt (Shivdutt's father)
- Sudha Chandran as Rani Maa (Shivdutt's mother)
- Avtar Gill as Dalpati Devata
- Waqar Sheikh as Vishwajeet Singh (son of Raja Surendra Singh and Damini).
- Parmeshwar Rajpurohit as Tej Singh
Criticism
Kamlapati Khatri, the grandson of the novel's author has said that the producer "had not done justice to the soul of Khatri’s Chandrakanta". He has also accused the producers of willfully misrepresenting certain concepts from the novel such as "tilism" (kind of a maze) and "ayyari" (spying) and showing it as "jaado-tona" (sorcery) plus the characters and the sequences in the Chunar fort were exaggerated beyond requirement while the Chandrakanta appeared after a really long time in the show.[3]
References
External links
Categories:- Indian fantasy television series
- Doordarshan television series
- Sony Entertainment Television series
- Television programs based on novels
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