Chandrakanta (2017 TV series)


Chandrakanta — Ek Mayavi Prem Gaatha is an Indian supernatural fantasy television series which premiered on Colors TV on 24 June 2017 and ended on 16 June 2018. Based on the 1888 novel of the same name by Devaki Nandan Khatri, it tells the story of Princess Chandrakanta. The show is produced by Ekta Kapoor and directed by Ranjan Kumar Singh under the Balaji Telefilms banner. The series stars Madhurima Tuli, Urvashi Dholakia, and Vishal Aditya Singh.

Plot

Chandrakantais born to Ratnaprabha, a great Ayyara, who has the most powerful dagger of Lord Vishnu. Iravati Singh , an evil queen wants the dagger to rule the whole world and conquers Vijaygarh. Ratnaprabha stores the dagger at Lord Vishnu's temple to protect it and pass it to Chandrakanta after 21 years.

21 years later

21 years later, Iravati is still searching the dagger while Veerendra "Veer" Pratap Singh, her step son plans to conquer Suryagarh kingdom. Chandrakanta, raised by a poor fisherman couple, gets the dagger, but she doesn't know of its powers. Iravati emotionally blackmails Veer that she is suffering from the effects of black magic performed on her by a girl with a dagger mark on her body. He goes to Suryagarh With his Lover Champa but later he initially, pretends to be a lover of Chandrakanta in order to take revenge but as time goes by, starts loving her.Veer and Chandrakanta start loving each other. In the end, Queen Iravati succeeds in separating Veer and Chandrakanta. Veer, unexpectedly stabs Chandrakanta with the dagger and she falls off the cliff without knowing the reason of the betrayal.

One year later

Chandrakanta returns as Suryakanta to find out that Veer has forgotten about the time he has spent with her in the past and has become a ruthless warrior under Iravati as now she is the owner of the magical dagger.Veer eventually regains his memory and finds out the truth about his mother and Chandrakanta and then decides to oppose his mother. He fights off and defeats the demons sent by his mother and saves Chandrakanta on several occasions. He also fights his stepbrother Swayam, the beast and defeats him in quite a few occasions but is unable to kill him. Finally Veer finds out that Swayam is immortal as he is blessed by Lord Vishnu and then he gives up his life fighting the beast and protecting Chandrakanta. Chandrakanta then as advised by Lord Vishnu injects Swayam's blood in Veer's body and resurrects him.
Meanwhile, Tej, Veer's friend, Umang, Chandrakanta's friend and Bhadra Maa get captured and tortured by Iravati who is trying to find out Chandrakanta. After resurrecting getting resurrected, Veer receives a new form of power in the form of Narsimha, a powerful Avatar of Lord Vishnu. Veer is the divine warrior and is chosen to put an end to the despotic rule of Queen Iravati and Swayam. Chandrakanta teaches Veer to control his new found powers and finally after a long fight Veer takes the form of the great Narsimha and kills Swayam and finally puts an end to the terror of Hirnasur. Iravati escapes and sorts the help of the "Asurs" from the Paatal Lok to defeat Veer. She returns with asurs but fails to defeat them. Meanwhile, Chandrakanta gives birth to a daughter, who is blessed to kill Iravati. Iravati attacks Veer and try to get Chandrakanta's daughter but chandrakanta saves her. Instead when Iravati tries to grab chandrakanta's daughter, she gets killed when she touches her. Chandrakanta and Veer name their daughter Suryakanta and establish peace and prosperity in Vijaygarh. The show ends here.

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