''Chandrashekhar'' is an Indian historical drama and biopic television series based on the life on a freedom fighter
Chandrashekhar Azad
Chandra Shekhar Tiwari ( (23 July 1906 – 27 February 1931), popularly known as Chandra Shekhar Azad, was an Indian revolutionary who reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) under its new name of Hindustan Socialist Republican ...
. It premiered on 12 March 2018 on
Star Bharat
Star Bharat is an Indian Hindi language General Entertainment pay television channel owned by Disney Star (formerly ''Star India''), a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company India. It telecasts dramas, crime and comedy shows. The channel was l ...
and is produced by Anirudh Pathak.
Cast
Main
*Karan Sharma as
Chandra Shekhar Azad
Chandra Shekhar Tiwari ( (23 July 1906 – 27 February 1931), popularly known as Chandra Shekhar Azad, was an Indian revolutionary who reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) under its new name of Hindustan Socialist Republican ...
**
Dev Joshi
Dev Joshi (born 28 November 2000) is an Indian television actor known for portraying the role of Baal Veer in Sony Sab's '' Baal Veer'' and ''Baalveer Returns''. He has worked in more than 20 Gujarati movies and many advertisements. He is also k ...
as Teenage Chandra Shekhar Azad
**Ayaan Zubair Rahmani as Young Chandra Shekhar Azad
*
Sneha Wagh
Sneha Wagh (born 4 October 1987) is an Indian television actress known for playing the role of ''Jyoti'' in Imagine TV's show '' Jyoti''. She played the role of ''Moora'' in the show ''Chandragupt Maurya'' telecasted on Sony TV. She portrayed ...
as Jagrani Tiwari
*
Satyajit Sharma
Satyajit Sharma (born 31 July 1969) is an Indian film and television actor. Sharma is known for his portrayal of the character Basant in the television soap opera ''Balika Vadhu''.
Filmography
• Nai Subah telefilm
*''Yeh Faasley''
*'' Paa'' a ...
as Sitaram Tiwari
*
Rahul Singh as
Ram Prasad Bismil
Ram Prasad Bismil ( Hindi: राम प्रसाद "बिस्मिल") (11 June 1897 — 19 December 1927) was an Indian poet, writer, revolutionary and an Indian freedom fighter who participated in the Mainpuri Conspiracy of 1918, a ...
*Arjun Singh Shekhawat as Master Manohar
*
Jason Shah
Jason Shah (born 14 December 1987) is a British-Indian actor and fitness model. He has participated in the 10th season of the reality show Bigg Boss (Hindi season 10), ''Bigg Boss'' as a wildcard entrant, and played Captain Hugh Ross in Jhansi ...
as
John Nott-Bower
Sir John Reginald Hornby Nott-Bower (16 March 1892 – 3 October 1972) was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1953 to 1958. He was the first career police officer to hold this post.
Early ...
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Karam Rajpal
Karam Rajpal is an Indian television actor and a photographer. He is best known for playing the roles, such as Maddy from Suvreen Guggal and Sameer Atwal/Iqbal from Nadaan Parinde Ghar Aaja on Life OK. He played the lead character Shivam Shriv ...
as
Bhagat Singh
Bhagat Singh (27 September 1907 – 23 March 1931) was a charismatic Indian revolutionary*
* who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer
*
* in what was to be retaliation for the death of an Indian national ...
Recurring
*
Chetanya Adib as
Ashfaqulla Khan
Ashfaqulla Khan (22 October 1900 – 19 December 1927) was an Indian independence activist in the Indian independence movement and co-founder of the Hindustan Republican Association.
Early life
Khan was born in the Shahjahanpur district of th ...
*
Vikas Shrivastav
Vikas Shrivastav is an Indian actor who has appeared primarily in Hindi films.
Career
Vikas Shrivasatav was born in Bihar and grew up in Uttar Pradesh. He worked in theatre since he was young. He started his career as an actor with ''Gangaajal' ...
as
Sachindranath Bakshi
*Nikunj Nayana as
Shivaram Rajguru
Shivaram Hari Rajguru (24 August 1907 – 23 March 1931) was an Indian revolutionary from Maharashtra (then Bombay State), known mainly for his involvement in the assassination of a British police officer named John Saunders. He was an active m ...
*Preetesh Manas as
Batukeshwar Dutt
Batukeshwar Dutt (18 November 1910 – 20 July 1965) was an Indian socialist revolutionary and independence fighter in the early 1900s. He is best known for having exploded two bombs, along with Bhagat Singh, in the Central Legislative Assemb ...
*Jaya Binju Tyagi as
Durgawati Devi
Durgavati Devi (7 October 1907 – 15 October 1999), popularly known as ''Durga Bhabhi'', was an Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter. She was one of the few women revolutionaries who actively participated in armed revolution against the ru ...
*Ashish Kadian as
Sukhdev Thapar
*Pankaj Singh as
Manmath Nath Gupta
Manmath Nath Gupta (7 February 1908 – 26 October 2000) was an Indian Marxist revolutionary writer and author of autobiographical, historical and fictional books in Hindi, English and Bengali. He joined the Indian independence movement at the ...
*Ghanshyam Garg as Tikaram
Guest
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Swati Kapoor
Swati Kapoor is an Indian actress. She made her television debut as Rachana in the serial ''Kaali – Ek Agnipariksha''. She made her debut in films with Punjabi film Mr & Mrs 420
''Mr & Mrs 420'' is a Punjabi comedy film directed by Ksshiti ...
as Harleen Kaur
*
Aanjjan Srivastav
Aanjjan Srivastav (born 2 June 1948) is an Indian film, television and stage actor, associated with Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) in Mumbai of which he remained Vice-President for several years. Outside theatre, he is best known as ...
as
Lala Lajpat Rai
Lala Lajpat Rai (28 January 1865 - 17 November 1928) was an Indian author, freedom fighter, and politician. He played a vital role in the Indian Independence movement. He was popularly known as Punjab Kesari. He was one of the three members of ...
*
Chirag Vohra
Chirag Vohra is an Indian television, stage and film actor. He has acted in films like ''Tere Bin Laden'', ''Billu'', ''Heyy Babyy'', '' Mangal Pandey: The Rising'', '' Jaago'' and ''Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein'' and Scam 1992 (2020).
He is well ...
as
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist Quote: "... marks Gandhi as a hybrid cosmopolitan figure who transformed ... anti- ...
*
Aishwarya Sakhuja
Aishwarya Sakhuja is an Indian model and actress. She was a Miss India finalist in 2006. From 2010 to 2012, she starred in Sony TV's show '' Saas Bina Sasural'' as Toasty. Sakhuja was also seen in other fictional shows, including '' Main Naa B ...
as
Kamala Nehru
Kamala Nehru (''née'' Kaul; ; 1 August 1899 – 28 February 1936) was an Indian independence activist and the wife of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India. Her daughter Indira Gandhi was the first female Prime Minister of India ...
*
Ram Awana
Ram Awana (born 1 March 1971) is an India, Indian film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Raja Paundrak in ''Dwarkadheesh – Bhagwaan Shree Krishn'', Chanur in ''Jai Shri Krishna (TV series), Jai Shri Krishna'', Farooq in D ...
as Veermal
*Shaize Khazmi as Bharat
References
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Star Bharat original programming
2018 Indian television series debuts
2018 Indian television series endings
Indian historical television series
Indian independence movement fiction
Cultural depictions of Bhagat Singh
Cultural depictions of Mahatma Gandhi
Indian period television series
Television shows set in the British Raj
Television series set in the 1920s
Television series set in the 1930s
Television shows set in Lahore
Cultural depictions of Subhas Chandra Bose