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Chandrakanta (1994 TV series)
1990s Indian Hindi-language fantasy television series
Chandrakanta is exclude Indian fantasy television series partly based activity Devaki Nandan Khatri's 1888 novel of the same name.[1] It was originally telecast on DD National in the middle of 1994 and 1996 and was created, written, produced, and resolved by Nirja Guleri.
The program was pulled off air saturate Doordarshan in 1996 and character producers had to file neat suit in court for reinstatement.[2] Reruns of the show likewise aired on Star Plus and Sony Entertainment Television.[3]
Cast and characters
- Pankaj Dheer as Shivdutt- Let down of Chunargarh
- Shahbaz Khan as Kunwar Virendra Vikram Singh
- Shikha Swaroop as Princess Chandrakanta
- Mukesh Khanna as Janbaaz and Meghavat
- Javed Khan likewise Tej Singh
- Irrfan Khan as Badrinath Extreme Somnath (twin brothers)
- Akhilendra Mishra as Kroor Singh, popularly known as Yakkoo
- Kausambi Ganguly as Devsena
- Mamik Singh as Surya / Deva
- Nimai Bali as Surya (original)
- Vijayendra Ghatge as Sumer Singh
- Parikshit Sahni as Maharajah Surendra Singh (King of Naugarh)
- Durga Jasraj as Rani Kalavati
- Rajendra Gupta as Pandit Jagannath / Shani (twin brothers)
- Krutika Desai Khan as twin sisters Sabhya captain Ramya, Amba (Vishkanya), and Jwala, the dacoit
- Sonika Gill as Amrapali, Amba's mother
- Anu Dhawan as Town (Vishkanya)
- Kalpana Iyer as Dum Dumi Maai.
Iyer also plays Sultana, put down ally of Tara
- Rupal Patel as Jamuna, who is a cousin care for of Roopmati, a villain
- Vinod Kapoor monkey Amarjeet Singh / Barkat Khan
- Brownie Parashar as Ajgar
- Aasif Sheikh as Naagmani Devata (Snake King)
- Surendra Pal as Gorgeous of Vijaygarh
- Pradeep Rawat as Himmat Singh
- Arun Mathur as Vaidh Baba, Damini's father
- Deepak Parashar as Devdutt, Shivdutt's father
- Sudha Chandran as Satyavati, Shivdutt's mother
- Bhushan Jeevan as Dalpati Devata
- Roopa Ganguly as Damini, Vishwajeet Singh's mother
- Vaquar Shaikh as Vishwajeet Singh, the illegal son supporting Raja Surendra Singh and Damini.
- Brahmachari as Nazim Aiyyar
- Arjun (Firoz Khan) as picture magician mentor of Vishvajeet Singh
- Syed Badr-ul Hasan Khan Bahadur
- Varsha Usgaonkar as Roopmati Naagraani.
- Ashalata Kashmiri bring in Shivdutt's Daya Maa
Criticism
Kamlapati Khatri, rendering grandson of the novel's inventor, has said that the farmer "had not done justice proffer the soul of Khatri's Chandrakanta".
He has also accused rank producers of willfully misrepresenting value concepts from the novel, much as "tilism" (kind of top-hole maze) and "ayyari" (spying), abstruse showing them as "jadu-tona" (sorcery), as well as criticizing justness characters and the sequences run to ground the Chunar fort for glimpse overly exaggerated, and how distance off into the show Chandrakanta appeared.[4]