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
Creative director(s)	Salim Arif
Starring	see below
Opening theme	"Chandrakanta" by Kumar Sanu
Country of origin	India
Language(s)	Hindi
Production
Producer(s)	Nirja Guleri
Running time	approx. 52 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	DD National (Original); Sony TV (Syndicated)
Picture format	480i (SDTV)
Original run	1994 – 1996

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 1990s and was produced by Nirja Guleri and directed by Sunil Agnihotri.

The serial was controversially pulled off air by Doordarshan in 1996^[1] and the producers had to file a suit in court for reinstatement.^[2] It later enjoyed reruns on Star Plus and Sony Entertainment Television.^[3]

Contents 1 Cast of characters 2 Criticism 3 References 4 External links

[edit] 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 King of Naugarh
• Pankaj Dheer as Shiv Dutt
• Durga Jasraj as Rani Kalawati
• Rajendra Gupta as Pandit Jagannath
• Rajendra Gupta as Shani, Pandit Jagannath's twin brother (a villain)
• Akhilendra Mishra as Kroor Singh
• Irrfan Khan as Badrinath. Also his twin brother Somnath
• Krutika Desai as Amba/Sabya/Vish Kanya
• Kalpana Iyer as Dum Dumi Maai
• Rupa Ganguly
• Nimay Bali as Surya
• Mamik as Deva, false Surya

[edit] 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 real Chandrakanta apeared after a really long time in the show..^[4]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Chandrakanta at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Site on Sony TV