Krishna Chali London

Krishna Chali London is an Indian television drama series on Star Plus.[2] It aired from 21 May 2018 to 14 June 2020.[3][4] It starred Megha Chakraborty alongside Gaurav Sareen and Karan Vohra as leads.[5]

Krishna Chali London
GenreDrama
Created bySaurabh Tewari
Screenplay byPranjal Saxena
Shashank Kunwar
Story byAmitabh Singh Ramkshatra
Srinita Bhoumick
Directed bySachin Kannan
Rahib Siddiqui
Manchan Thakur Vikal
Creative director(s)Ketaki Walawalkar
Mini Sunita Pramod
Ishita Rana
StarringMegha Chakraborty
Gaurav Sareen
Karan Vohra
Music byPancham Singhania
Rishabh Singhania
Country of originIndia
Original language(s)Hindi
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes281
Production
Producer(s)Saurabh Tewari
Sumit Chaudhuri
Kewal Sethi
Deepak Gurnani
CinematographyKunal B. Kadam
Editor(s)Rahul Singh
Jatish Narayan Ghadi
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time22 minutes
Production company(s)Parin Multimedia
DistributorStar India
Release
Original networkStarPlus
Picture format
Original release21 May 2018 (2018-05-21) –
14 June 2019 (2019-06-14) [1]
External links
Hotstar

Plot

Radhe Lal Shukla lives in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh and belongs to a rich yet illiterate family. Humiliated for his illiteracy, his dominating and arrogant non-biological father, Shukla, decides to have Radhe marry an educated girl and chooses "district-topper" Krishna from the neighboring town of Malihabad.

Intelligent and ambitious, Krishna assists her father, Dubey, at his medical clinic. Her mother had died of cervical cancer and Krishna dreams of studying medicine in London and becoming a doctor. Though devastated by the idea of marrying into a conservative family, Krishna goes ahead with the wedding to save her father's reputation.

Immediately after the wedding, Krishna is humiliated by her mother-in-law, Shuklain, and others in the Shukla family who resent her for her independent thinking and modern views. However, Radhe supports her. Gradually, Krishna returns his affections and is able to bring some positive changes into the Shukla household starting with getting rid of domestic violence in the house. In a twist, it is revealed that Radhe is Lambodar and his late wife Vrinda's son. Lambodar, Shukla's elder brother, had murdered Vrinda when she tried to save Shuklain from Lambodar's unwanted sexual advances. Lambodar is sent to prison and Radhe and Krishna leave for London.

In medical school, Krishna is punished by stern, arrogant NRI professor Dr. Veer Sahay, a famous clinical cardiologist, whose native city is Unnao. Dr. Veer is expelled from his job for racist behaviour. His car hits Radhe who dies in the accident. The Shuklas promptly blame Krishna for his death and mistreat her. An emotionally broken Krishna is forced to stay with the Shuklas who had recently opened a special hospital named the Radhe Krishna Hospital where Krishna must now work.

Meanwhile, Lambodar tries to escape from prison and gets admitted to a hospital. Dr. Veer returns to India where his past is revealed to be connected to the Shuklas. Dr. Veer's father worked for Shukla who refused to lend him money for an important surgery which eventually led to Veer's father's death. Veer harbours a deep grudge against the Shuklas. He and Krishna are forced to run the Radhe Krishna Hospital and slowly fall in love with one another and are married.

Veer buys the Radhe Krishna Hospital at an auction and gifts it to Krishna. Shukla manipulates everyone including Krishna to think that Veer killed Radhe and was faking his love for Krishna. Veer gets ten years imprisonment for Radhe's murder. A heartbroken Krishna returns the hospital to Shukla ji and leaves for London to complete medical school.

5 years later

Dr. Krishna Dubey, an honest and sincere professional doctor now works at the Life Care Hospital. Shukla tries to convince her to work in his hospital for his business growth, but she rejects the offer. Veer escapes from prison to meet Krishna and pleads his innocence but is soon captured and sent back to prison. A mysterious man convinces an emotional Shuklain and Gajanan that he is their Radhe. Veer's mother, Sunaina, wants Shukla to bail Veer out as "Radhe" has now returned. Veer gets bail and begins investigating the actual identity of the new Radhe. Veer and Krishna discover that the new Radhe is actually Mohan who is defrauding the family.

Soon, the Shuklas realise that they were being duped by Mohan. They are grateful to Veer and Krishna for exposing him. Veer and Krishna reject an appointment letter from the London Royal Hospital to stay back in Kanpur with the Shukla family who give them their blessings.

Cast

Main
  • Megha Chakraborty as Dr. Krishna Sahay– Clinical cancer specialist; Kaksh Nath's daughter; Radhe's former wife; Veer's wife (2018–2019)
  • Gaurav Sareen as Radhe Shukla– Lambodar and Vrinda's son; Krishna's former husband (2018–2019)
  • Karan Vohra as Dr. Veer Sahay– Clinical cardiology specialist; Sunaina's son; Nayani's brother; Krishna's husband (2018–2019)

Recurring
  • Neeraj Sood as Dr. Kaksh Nath Dubey– Gulkand's brother; Krishna's father
  • Sushmita Mukherjee as Gulkand Saneria– Kaksh Nath's sister; Krishna's aunt; Nirmal's wife
  • Pawan Mahendru as Nirmal Saneria– Gulkand's husband; Krishna's uncle
  • Yamini Singh as Sunaina Sahay– Veer and Nayani's mother
  • Bhagwan Tiwari as Gajodhar Shukla– Lambodar's brother; Raima's husband; Radhe's uncle; Gajanan, Triloki and Jhabbo's father
  • Madhuri Sanjeev as Raima Shukla– Gajodhar's wife; Radhe's aunt; Gajanan, Triloki and Jhabbo's mother
  • Sunny Sachdeva as Gajanan Shukla– Gajodhar and Raima's son; Radhe's cousin; Triloki and Jhabbo's brother; Laali's husband
  • Divya Malik as Laali Shukla– Gajanan's wife
  • Manoj Verma as Triloki Shukla– Gajodhar and Raima's son; Radhe's cousin; Gajanan and Jhabbo's brother; Bela's husband
  • Bhoomika Mirchandani as Bela Shukla– Sahira's daughter; Titi's sister; Triloki's wife
  • Piew Jana as Jhabbo Mishra– Gajodhar and Raima's daughter; Radhe's cousin; Gajanan and Triloki's sister; Matuk's wife
  • Amitabh Singh Ramkshatra as Matuk Nath Mishra– Jhabbo's husband
  • Abhinandan Jindal as Saajan Srivastav– Radhe's best friend and confidante; Guddan's husband
  • Kaushiki Rathore as Guddan Srivastav– Saajan's wife
  • Anupam Shyam as Lambodar Shukla– Gajodhar's brother; Vrinda's husband; Radhe's father
  • Meena Mir as Sahira Awasthi– Bela and Titi's mother
  • Shivanya Ahlawat as Titi Awasthi– Sahira's daughter; Bela's sister
  • Ishaan Singh Manhas as Prashant Ahuja– Krishna’s former boyfriend and mentor
  • Ankit Bathla as Dr. Aayan Kapoor– Clinical oncology specialist
  • Vividha Kirti as Shivani Singh– Veer's former girlfriend
  • Mayank Arora as Mohan
  • Aaira Rajput as Nayani Sahay– Sunaina's daughter; Veer's sister
  • Babla Kochhar as Dr. Shrikant Rao– Psychiatrist

Guests
  • Saurabh Tewari as himself during episode 1 (2018)[6]
  • Mouni Roy as Sundari (2018)

Production

Both the leads not hailing from backdrop of the series Kanpur, went on training to learn the accent and slang used there. Speaking about training for his role, lead Gaurav Sareen said, "The part that required most effort for the role was the language. Since I was born and brought up in Amritsar, I have a Punjabi accent, which was unfit for Radhe, who is from Kanpur. I read a lot of books and watched movies in the languages spoken in and around eastern Uttar Pradesh."[7] Megha Chakraborty who attended diction classes for it said, "I am from Kolkata and I am not well-versed with the Hindi language. When I was approached for the show, my character required me to learn a local dialect of Uttar Pradesh, which is very close to the Hindi language. Becausese of my difficulty with the dialect, I took classes from the on-set tutor and improved on my language skills. It took me a few days initially but I got better in a few months."[8]

Based on the backdrop of Kanpur, the series was mainly filmed at sets in Mumbai. However, some initial sequences were shot at Lucknow.[9] From late December 2018 to early January 2019, the series was filmed at London.[10]

In July 2018, a fire broke out on the sets while some clothes caught fire which was soon extinguished.[11]

In early January 2019, to increase the ratings, Sareen was made to quit the series when his was killed in a car accident in London which he came to know the day before shooting the sequence.[12] Karan Vohra who was cast as Veer in December 2018 became the lead then.[10][13]

Adaptations

It was remade in Kannada as Nan Hendthi MBBS, which premiered on Star Suvarna on 11 February 2019 and ended on 18 May 2019 with 82 episodes due to low viewership.[14][15] The series was based on the backdrop of Melkote which starred Sagar and Divya Rao.[16]

Reception

The series opened with a low viewership of 2.7 million viewership in its launch week in urban occupying eighteen position.[17] However, then it improved to a satisfactory level. In third week of August 2018, it occupied tenth position garnering 5.08 million viewership.[18] In week 41 of 2018 it was in ninenth position with 4.6 million impressions.[19] In week 43 of 2018, it was in fourteenth position with 4.9 million impressions.[20] In week 51 of 2018 it garnered 5.1 million impressions occupying fourteenth position and the following week it got 4.08 million impressions.[21][22]

With its decent average ratings, it maintained its position in weekly top twenty Hindi GEC in urban since its premiere until December 2018. To increase the ratings, in January 2019, the makers killed the character Radhe played by Gaurav Sareen and Karan Vohra playing Veer became the main lead opposite Megha Chakraborty. This saw a decline in its ratings during which in week 2 2019 it did not even feature in top 20 Hindi GEC in urban.[23] In week 5 2019, it occupied eighteenth position with 4.1 million impressions.[24]

In UK, during the week ending 24 March 2019, it became the most watched Hindi television series with 107,700 viewership.[25]

With the not expected ratings delivered by the series, it was ended on 14 June 2019 with the decreasing ratings and it garnered a low TRP of 1.1 in its last week of airing.[4]

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References
  1. "Star Plus to pull the plug on Krishna Chali London". EasternEye. 17 May 2019.
  2. "Television channels gear up for new shows post IPL. Here are all the deets". The Indian Express.
  3. "Star Plus confirms launch date of 'Krishna Chali London'". Biz Aisa. 30 April 2018.
  4. "Megha Chakraborty:compared-to-other-soaps-krishna-chali-london-wasnt-promoted-well". Times Of India.
  5. "Megha Chakraborty: Age Doesn't Matter To Me". Mid Day.
  6. "Saurabh Tewari to do cameo in 'Krishna Chali London'". Business Standard.
  7. "The boy next door". The Hindu.
  8. "Megha Chakraborty takes diction classes to avoid Bengali accent". Business Standard.
  9. "Lucknowite Saurabh Tewari shoots for a serial in the city". The Times of India.
  10. "Daily soap is like a school: Karan Vohra". The Quint.
  11. "TV Serial Krishna Chali London's Set Catches Fire, All Is Well Now - ABP News". ABP News.
  12. "Gaurav Sareen shocked with his sudden ouster from Krishna Chali London". India Today.
  13. "Krishna Chali London's Gaurav Sareen, Megha Chakraborty, and others reunite; shares fun pictures". The Times of India.
  14. "Watch Nana Hendhthi MBBS from February 11". Times Of India.
  15. "Nana Hendthi MBBS to go off air?". The Times of India.
  16. "Hudugis in the reckoning". Deccan Chronicle.
  17. "Most watched Indian television shows: Post leap, Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai rises up the BARC list". The Indian Express.
  18. "Rating war: Aladdin makes a smashing debut; Naagin 3 and Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai still going strong". India Today.
  19. "Latest TRP Ratings: Colors TV Drops Down; Dance Plus Gets Good Opening; Ishqbaaz Out Of TRP Race!". Yahoo News.
  20. "Most watched Indian TV shows: Bigg Boss 12 makes an exit from TRP chart". The Indian Express.
  21. "Most watched Indian TV shows: Kasautii Zindagii Kay climbs up the TRP chart". The Indian Express.
  22. "Most watched Indian television shows: Indian Idol 10 ends on a high note on TRP chart". The Indian Express.
  23. "After 'Ishqbaaaz', 'Krishna Chali London' to go off air on Star Plus?". ABP News.
  24. "Most watched Indian TV shows: Khatron Ke Khiladi 9 continues to top TRP chart". The Indian Express.
  25. "UK Ratings: 'Krishna Chali London' on Star Plus No.1 show of week". Biz Asia.
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