Dwarkadheesh – Bhagwaan Shree Krishn

Dwarkadheesh – Bhagwaan Shree Krishn
Genre	mythology, drama
Created by	Sagar Films (Pvt.Ltd.)
Written by	Kamal Pandey & Raghuvir Shekhawat
Directed by	Bhushan Patel, Mukesh singh
Creative directors	Amrit Sagar Chopra, Akash Sagar Chopra
Starring	Vishal Karwal, Priya Bathija, Puneet Issar
Theme music composer	Sunny Bawra, Inder Bawra
Composer	Ravindra Jain
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of episodes	204
Production
Producers	Moti Sagar, Meenakshi Sagar
Cinematography	Deepak Malwankar
Editors	Santosh Singh, K. Rajgopal, Vikash Kumar Jha
Running time	20 minutes
Original release
Network	Imagine TV
Release	4 July 2011 – 12 April 2012

Dwarkadheesh – Bhagwaan Shree Krishna was a television series based on the adult life of the Hindu deity Krishna. It began airing on 4 July 2011 on Imagine TV at the 8 pm slot and was stopped abruptly midway with the shutdown of Imagine TV in April 2012. The series intended to show Krishna as a valiant lover; a master strategist; and an ideal brother, father, son, and king. Renowned composer Ravindra Jain composed the title song (sung by Anup Jalota) as well as music for the initial episodes. Afterwards the composer was replaced by music director-duo Sunny Bawra and Inder Bawra (Bawra Bros). The serial is produced by Sagar Pictures who are well known for their devotional serials of Bhagavan Ramachandra and Bhagavan Krishna: Ramayana and Sri Krishna respectively.

Plot

The series focused on Lord Krishna's adventures as the prince of Dwarka and on his relationships with his elder brother Balram, sister-in-law Revati, to-be wife Rukmini, etc.

The series followed Lord Krishna's life after he killed his evil uncle, demon-king Kans and became prince of Dwarka. It begins with Krishna engaging in battle with the wicked Kalyavan, an ally of king Jarasandh of Magadh, who has already lost 16 battles against Prince Krishna.

Dwarkadheesh – Bhagwaan Shree Krishna was distracted in its plot from the descriptions and sequence of Krishna's life, events as mentioned in Hindu scriptures (primarily Srimad Bhagwad Mahapuran). For example, the episode of Uddhava going to Vridavan and getting teaching of Bhakti from Gopis actually happened when Krishna was in Mathura (according to Srimad Bhagwad Mahapuran) but was shown in the serial when Krishna was in Dwarka. Srimad Bhagwad Mahapuran does not include any reference to Uddhava being accompanied by Sudama but the TV serial showed otherwise. Many other incidents and details also leave a student of Srimad Bhagwad Mahapuran and other Puranas in suspicion if they are mere fictions tales blended intelligently by script writers.

Overall the serial's direction was to give moral teachings to devotees of Krishna through his life events but the script heavily missed the details and chronological order of events in sync with Hindu scriptures.

Intentions

The show was intended to show the Vishvarupa of Lord Krishna but due to shutdown of Imagine TV, it could not do so. Sagar Arts tried to show the last moments of Lord Krishna and his return to Vaikuntha which they were unable to show in their previous show Shri Krishna.

Cast

• Vishal Karwal as Prince Krishna (incarnation of Lord Vishnu)
• Hemant Chadha as Prince Balram (incarnation of serpent-king Sheshnaag)
• Gauri Harmit Kaur as Revathi
• Priya Bathija / Payal Shrivastav as Rukmini (incarnation of Goddess Lakshmi)
• Gautam Sharma as Arjun
• Shantipriya as Lady Devki (Krishna's mother)
• Puneet Issar as King Jarasandh of Magadh
• Nikitin Dheer as Kalyavan (cameo)
• Karan Khanna as King Shishupal of Chedi (final demon incarnation of Jai, gatekeeper of Vaikunth)
• Arun Singh as Sage Jwala
• Urvashi Pardeshi as Satyabhama
• Rashmi Singh as Jambavati
• Mamik Singh as Bhishma
• Gufi Paintal as Uncle Shakuni, King of Gandhar
• Sachin Verma as Prince Yudhishthir
• Amit Pachori as Prince Duryodhan
• Thakur Anoop Singh as Prince Dushasan
• Ram Bahadur Renu as Sudama
• Nishant Kumar as Uddhav
• Sanjay Sharma(Dev Pandit) as Thakur Akhilesh
• Ram Awana as Pondrak

Principal characters

Krishna's Family

Parents:

• Lord Vasudev (biological father)
• Lady Devaki (biological mother)
• Chief Nanda (mythology) Rai (father)
• Yashoda (mother)

Siblings:

• Prince Balram (half-brother)
• Princess Subhadra (half-sister)

Marriages:

• Princess Rukmini of Vidarbha (wife)
• Princess Jambavati (wife)
• Lady Satyabhama of Dwarka (wife)
• 16,100 women (formerly imprisoned by Demon Narkasur)

Relatives:

• Demon-king Kans of Mathura (uncle)
• Lady Shrutshrava of Chedi (aunt)
• Prince Shishupal of Chedi (cousin)
• Zameendar: Thakur Akhilesh Kalyanpur of Kalyanpur (Zameendar)
• Lady Kunti of Hastinapur (aunt)
• Prince Yudhishthir
• Prince Bhimsen
• Prince Arjun (also his brother-in-law)
• Prince Nakul
• Prince Sahadev

Relatives through marriage:

• King Bhishmaka of Vidarbha (father-in-law)
• Queen of Vidarbha (mother-in-law)
• Prince Rukmi (brother-in-law)
• Bear-king Jamvanta (father-in-law)
• Nobleman Satrajit (father-in-law)
• Noblewoman Savithri (mother-in-law)

Stoppage

Turner Broadcasting System decided to shut down their Hindi general entertainment channel; this programme was stopped due to the shutdown of Imagine TV. It had acquired the channel from NDTV in 2010. "Imagine TV has not performed and grown as per expectations. While some programmes delivered satisfactory ratings, overall the channel was unable to achieve the ratings consistency needed to sustain the business and support continued investment. As a result, Turner made the carefully considered decision to cease operations of the channel," so people are hoping for the come back.

External links

• Production website
• Shrinathji Temple, Nathdwara