''Prem Ya Paheli – Chandrakanta'' is an Indian

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television show, produced and directed by Nikhil Sinha. The show stars Kritika Kamra and

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in lead roles. The show is produced by Triangle Film Company and is inspired by the popular 1888

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novel '' Chandrakanta'' by Devaki Nandan Khatri. The dialogue writer for the show is Shailesh Pratap singh The show telecasted on

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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

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. Show went off-air abruptly on 27 August 2017.

Plot

The show is inspired by the novel '' Chandrakanta''. The show starts when a king successfully possesses all the powers of the world and stores and locks those powers to keep anyone from trying to steal the powers. He and his wife die after another king attacks them. 100 years later, the king and his wife are reborn. The show then follows the story of the prince and princess falling in love and rediscovering the ''Tilism'', in spite of facing a lot of trouble created by Prince Shivdutt who is considered as the rightful owner of the "Tilism".

Cast

* Kritika Kamra as Princess Chandrakanta / Maharani Chandrika *

as Prince Virendra Singh / Maharaj Harshvardhan *

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as Crown Prince Shivdutt * Iris Maity as Bichhoo Kanya Shyamala / Rajkumari Taramati * Chandan K Anand as Kroor Singh * Harsh Vashisht as Maharaj Jai Singh * Gungun Uprari as Maharani Ratnagarbha * Sandeep Mohan as Maharaj Surendra Singh * Jaswinder Gardner as Maharani Padvika * Manasvi Vyas as Maharani Kamini * Puneet Vashisht as Badrinath * Jitendra Bohara as Aiyyar Nazim * Abhishek Avasthi as Aiyyar Ahmed * Sumit Arora as Aiyyar Zakir * Bibriti Chatterjee as Aiyyara Chapla * Sonal Shrotriya as Aiyyara Champa *

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as Pandit Jagannath * Rohit Choudhary as Prince Jai Aditya * Sunny Sachdeva as Aiyyar Devgiri * Nikunj Malik as Soundarya * Patrali Chattopadhyay as Parijaat * Rahul Trivedi as Jhumroo * Abhilash Chaudhary as Yakshraj Param * Michelle Shah as Yakshini Siyali / Mansi * Zeeshan Ahmed Khan/

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as Tej Singh

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Prem Ya Paheli - Chandrakanta Indian fantasy television series Life OK original programming Hindi-language television shows 2017 Indian television series debuts 2017 Indian television series endings Television shows based on Indian novels