Prem Ya Paheli – Chandrakanta | |
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Genre |
Indian soap opera Fantasy |
Created by | Triangle Films |
Based on | Devaki Nandan Khatri |
Directed by | Nikhil Sinha , Dharmesh Shah and Manish Singh |
Starring | (For cast see below) |
Country of origin | India |
Original language(s) | Hindi |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 46(as of 6 August 2017) |
Production | |
Producer(s) | Nikhil Sinha |
Location(s) | Hyderabad, India |
Running time | approx. 45 minutes |
Release | |
Original network | Life Ok |
Original release | 4 March 2017 – Present |
Prem Ya Paheli – Chandrakanta is an Indian Hindi language fantasy television show, produced and directed by Nikhil Sinha.
The show stars Kritika Kamra and Gaurav Khanna in lead roles. The show is produced by Triangle Films and is inspired on the popular Hindi novel by Devaki Nandan Khatri, Chandrakanta which is considered to be the first work of prose in the modern Hindi language, and may have significantly contributed to the language's popularity. The show telecasted on Life OK from 4 March 2017 on Saturday-Sunday at 9 pm. First promo of the show was released on 8 February 2017. A special sequence of the show was also shot at the Golkonda Fort in Hyderabad.
The show is inspired from the novel Chandrakanta. The show starts when a King named Harshvardhan gets successful in possessing all the powers of the world and builds a tilism to store those powers and locks a Yaksha to secure the powers from anyone trying to steal the powers. He and his wife died after King of Chunargarh attacked them while they were performing a Yagna. After 100 years of this incident, The King and his wife are reborn as Princess Chandrakanta and Prince Virendra Singh. The show now follows the story of Prince and Princess falling in love and rediscovering the Tilism and embracing the powers again. In spite of facing a lot of trouble, created by Prince Shivdutt who is considered as the rightful owner of the "Tilism".