Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat
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| Genre | Historical drama |
| Created by | Ashok Banker |
| Written by | Ashok Banker |
| Directed by | Prasad Gavandi |
| Creative director(s) | Jitendra Srivastava, Nafees Khan |
| Starring | See Cast section |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language(s) | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 441 |
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| Producer(s) | Abhimanyu Raj Singh Rupali Singh |
| Location(s) | Karjat, Raigad district, Maharashtra, India |
| Cinematography | Deepak Pandey |
| Running time | Approx. 20 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Contiloe Entertainment |
| Release | |
| Original network | Colors TV |
| Picture format |
576i SDTV 1080i HDTV |
| Original release | 2 February 2015 – 7 October 2016 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat (English: The Great Emperor Ashok) is a 2015 Indian historical drama serial, that aired on Colors TV. The show was created and written by author and screenwriter Ashok Banker. It stars Mohit Raina as Ashok while Siddharth Nigam portrayed the young version of the character.
Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat is based on the life of Ashoka (304–232 BCE), the third emperor of the Mauryan dynasty of India. The historical drama was produced by Contiloe Entertainment, and directed by Prasad Gavandi. The show premiered on 2 February 2015 with 1 hour telecast duration for first 20 episodes. The serial ended on 7 October 2016.
Initially, the show focused on the life and love story of Ashoka's parents Dharma and Bindusara. Bindusara is the present king of Magadh, while his step-mother conspires against him. Bindusara was attacked by Helena's men but saved by a beautiful and intelligent Brahmin girl named Subhadrangi/Dharma. Impressed by her skills, Bindusara falls in love and marries her. Later, Dharma becomes pregnant. The session ends when one of Bindusara's other wives Noor and her father Mir Khorasan try to kill Dharma. Dharma gives birth to a baby boy and names him "Ashoka" (without sorrow).
14 years later
The show later on focuses on the life of young Ashoka getting guidance from Chanakya who helps Ashoka against all obstacles. Dharma does not let Ashoka know anything about his father but Ashoka figures it out through certain clues and manages to re-unite Bindusara and Dharma. Chanakya also believed that Ashok will be the great ruler of Magadha because of his selfless nature and his oath of serving motherland till his last breath. But Ashok never wanted the throne as he thinks that his brother; Siyamak will be the perfect ruler for Magadha. Meanwhile, Chanakya along with Radhagupta and his other disciples are busy in protecting the throne of Magadha from the evil and corrupt practices done by Helena and the other enemies of Magadha and Chanakya's oath of protecting his motherland forever created hindrance in the way of Helena; who at last created a plot to kill Chanakya. Meanwhile, Chanakya came to know that from some time; Charumitra practiced black magic on Dharma. Susima hated Chanakya as he always favoured Ashoka over him while mahamatya Khalatak was always jealous of him as Bindusara always favored Chanakya over him in the matters related to Magadha. So Helena joined Charumitra; Sushim and Khalatak. Siyamak also joined in this mission as he believed that his dear ones (Justin and Noor) had died due to Chanakya. They all killed Chanakya who in his last breathe tells Ashoka that the only way to serve his motherland is to become the Emperor of Magadha by any means. Ashoka believes that Chanakya did not die due to some mishap/accident but due to a conspiracy done by the enemies of Magadha. Thus; Ashoka takes a pledge to punish the culprits and fulfill Chanakya's last wish of becoming the Emperor of Magadha by any means. Meanwhile,to end the tyranny of Keechak, Ashok heads for Takshashila and after a lot of struggles, becomes successful. Also there,he meets Kalinga's Princess Kaurwaki, forms a unique bond of friendship. Later on both fall in love and secrately marry, against Kaurwaki's father Jagganath's wishes. Later-on, Ashoka returns to Patliputra and in the meantime, found out that his own family members were involved in the death of Chanakya. But in the process of making the criminals punished for their sins, tables turned on him making Ashok attack on Bindusara and injuring Susima. So, in a fit of rage, Bindusara exiled him from Patliputra. For protection of her son, Dharma went with him along with her newborn Vitta and the trio left Patliputra and settled in Ujjain. That marked the end of the session
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