Chandra Nandni is a Hindi fiction drama television series which started airing on Star Plus on 10

October 2016 at 8:30 PM.[1] It is produced by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor under the
banner Balaji Telefilms and is directed by Ranjan Kumar Singh. It stars Rajat
Tokas as Chandragupta Maurya and Shweta Basu Prasad as Nandni and is based on the life
of Chandragupta Maurya, one of the major Indian Emperors of ancient India. [1][2]
The first scene of the show starts with Bharatmata introducing the show Chandra Nandini as the tale
of Chandragupta Maurya and Nandini, his wife as well as the daughter of his greatest enemy.
Moora, the wife of Suryagupta, the king of the small province of Piplivana, is pregnant with
Chandragupta. Suryagupta along with his wife are invited by his friend, King Shishunaga of
Magadha. At the palace, pregnant Moora is wooed by a fellow 'napit' (barber), Nanda. For his
wrongdoing, he is whipped by Rani Avantika, wife of Shishunaga; but later it is revealed that
Avantika and Nanda are conspiring together to get the throne from Shishunaga and also
Shishunaga's 9 sons through Avantika are actually Nanda's. Suryagupta and Moora came to know
about this but could not aware Shishunaga about this miserable truth as he (Shishunaga) had
already been killed by Nanda and the blame is put on Suryagupta. Nanda kills Suryagupta as well
and Moora escapes into the jungle where she delivers Chandra and hides him in a goshala away
from the clutches of Nanda. Chandra is then adopted by a common lady named Kanika. On the
other hand, Moora is held captive by Nanda, who has now become the emperor of Magadha and
has assumed the title of Maharaja Maha Padmananda and has married Avantika. He proposes
Moora for marriage, but she rejects his proposal insulting him. She warns Nanda that her son will
take her revenge on him and if Nanda would have a daughter, his daughter will have to suffer for his
wrongdoings as well. Soon Avantika gives birth to Nanda's daughter, Nandni.

14 years later[edit]
Padmananda has become a very oppressive ruler, exploiting his praja (subjects) for more and more
taxes. His only weakness is his daughter Nandini whom he loves more than his life. It is also due to
Nandini that Nanda has spared the life of Avantika, whom he has now no interest in. Moora is still
held captive by Nanda. On the other hand, Chandragupta has grown up as a commoner but holds
great affection for his foster mother Kanika, even not hesitating to fight with his drunkard foster father
to protect her from his rage and increasing pressure for handing over money. To support his mother
financially, Chandra sets out for Pataliputra. He enters into Pataliputra with the special coin with (the
royal mark of Magadh embedded on) that Mahaamatya (Prime Minister) of Magadh Rakshas had
previously given him after being impressed with his noble values, his rich ideals and athletic skills.
He then is shocked to see how cruel Nanda is, torturing his citizens severely for taxes. He then also
finds Moora on the streets who was then being whipped by the soldiers of Nanda on his order. He
somehow manages to protect Moora temporarily and then also receives a glance of Rajkumari
Nandini. Meanwhile, Chanakya watches Chandragupta's activities and somewhere in his mind
considers that Chandra can one day become the heavenly and mighty ruler of India he is searching
for and can fulfill his dream of Akhanda Bharatvarsh . Chandra confronts Nanda about his
wrongdoings but Nanda pay no heed to his agitation and gets him thrown out of his site. On the
other hand, the Greek emperor, Alexander The Great with his soldiers intrudes into Hindustan aiming
to conquer the land. Chanakya visits Raja Padmananda at his court to alarm him of the possibility of
an invasion from the Greeks, but Nanda paying no attention to his alarming throws Chanakya out of
the sabha after insulting him to be nothing but a beggar. Chanakya, before leaving, warns Nanda
that his ambition will one day bring his downfall and Chanakya, whom Nanda insulted as a beggar,
will be the one responsible for his decline. Chanakya teaches child Chandra all the skills of a king.

After Some Years[edit]

Chanakya sends Chandra to Greek to know about their war skills. From there he went to Parvatak,
where he knows about the betrayal done by Malaykethu to Helena, daughter of Selecus Nicatus.
With the help of Helena, Chandra learns Greek war skills. Then he escapes from them. He fought
against Padmananda but failed. Then he attacked the Greeks left over in India after the death of
Alexander. As a result of this, He marries Helena. Then he tried to attack Padmanand but failed.
Then he tries again but fails again, then they gather a bigger army and Acharya Chanakya orders
him to marry Durdhara, his childhood friend as her father is a rich merchant and can provide money
for the well being of the army. After that he attacks again, this time in the end of the first day Chandra
was about to kill Padmananda but failed to, as the day got over, the end of the next day Malaykethu
who is supposed to be the fianc of Nandini by deceit comes and stabs Chandra on his back but he
survives the next day the army of Nanda becomes weak so he decides to run away from the field in
a secret house behind a mountain, soon Malaykethu gets trapped by Helena and Chandra and tells
them nanda's hiding place, Chandra then goes towards that place and Malaykethu puts sand in
helena's eyes and runs away, then he finds nand, he is just about to kill him that Nandini appears
there with her sword and tries to protect her father but fails to and then the soldiers get Nand's 8
sons (other than one who is mentally challenged) and Chandra kills them there in front of Nandini
and Nand, Acharya decides to leave nand and nandini and they move on to a secret place where
Nand has all of his wealth but then it is revealed that all this time Acharya was following them and
then there Chandra kills Nand, then Nandini goes to the palace and tells all the mothers and her
sister in-laws what happened. Moora is also freed and Chandra is now coronated as the king of
Magadha. He is forced to get married to Nandini as it is revealed that Nand and 1 of his sons - Dhan
are alive and if Chandra becomes Nandini's husband then he can't kill him as he cannot see his
daughter as a widow then they do the first ritual which is also called the haldi (turmeric) ritual. In this
ritual, the male side gives the female side their turmeric and vice versa then for revenge Nandini
mixes poison in his haldi but the haldis are changed by Helena's mother as she gets to know about
the turmeric then Durdhara who applies haldi on the face on Nandini, her hands burn as they have
the poison in them, she then visits Chandra to show her hands and then Acharya gives Chandra a
medicine which he goes picks up Nandini and puts her in the water and puts the medicine on her,
then they marry and to perform a ritual called kanyadan in which a male has to give a gift to the bride
and then it is revealed that they found Dhan moving near the palace and he does the
kanyadan.Helena blackmails Nandini as she knows about Nand being alive.Later,Chandra and
Nandini go to Peeplivana to meet chandra's grandmother.They also climb up a huge mountain for
grandmother.After returning,Chayya's husband Suryajit dies. So,Chandra decides to get Chayya
married again to Malayketu and he does. Malaykethu asks Nandini to support him in killing
Chandra.She denies and informs Chandra. Chandra doesn't believe Nandini and in return tells her
that Malayketu told him that Nandini is in love with him and doesn't wants to stay with Chandra.
Nandini denies the fact but Chandra doesn't believe. Chandra gets to know that Durdhara is
pregnant with his child. Unfortunately,Durdhara slips on oil and falls through the stairs.A lady
examines her and tells about her condition to Chandra.Chandra tells everyone that Durdhara has
had a misscarriage.He also tells that this is a planned act.He then runs a story to find the real
culprit.He first blames Nandini without any proof.But,Later on comes to know that Gautami is the
culprit.She is thrown out of the palace. He goes and apologizes to Nandini as he thought that she is
the culprit and behaved rudely with her.He also tells that if she was not Nandini and he was not
Chandra then their story would be different. He also tells her that he would respect her if she wasn't
the daughter of nand. Chandra helps Nandini in order to disguise herself as men to get admission in
the exam which was going to be held in Takshashila.Unfortunately a disciple finds out that Nandni is
a lady and decides to take revenge from her and gives her a drink with alcohol in it.Chandra finds
Nandni in drunken state and takes her to a secret cottage.It is now that she reveals that Padmanand
is waiting for them on the temple road and will kill Chandra.But,in the morning after Chanakya gets
to know about Nandni and reluctantly gives her the prize Nandni wantingly takes Chandra in a
different path where Malykethus men attack him with Kalkut poison.Nandni takes Chandra to the
palace and spends the whole night healing Chandra.After that Helena makes a plan to build a wall
between Chandra and Nandni.She behaves well with Nandni and keeps telling Chandra that Nandni
still likes Malaykethu.This makes Chandra jealous.Helena on the other hand shifts Nandnis room to
the end and hers near Chandra.This makes Nandni jealous.Chandra and Nandni both have
developed feeling for each other but are reluctant to admit. They both fight back their feelings for
each other as they both consider each other as their enemy But,this is where comes the twist in the
tale. Nandni's stepmother (Nandha's first wife) has a look alike of Nandni called Roopa. Helena's
mother is also supporting her in this.Then it is revealed that Roopa is Nandini's twin sister and she
has a character which is totally different from Nandini's. Her main aim is to seek revenge and to
break her relationship with Chandra, mother, father and all others. She tries to come closer to
Malaykethu in order to spread misunderstandings. Roopa is alcoholic and always she is seen
smoking. She also has long nails which Nandini does not. when Roopa, Sunanda and Helena's
mother tries to draw walls between Chandra and Nandini, Dadima tries to bring them closer.Now
both Chandra and Nandini has feelings for each other, they won't show it outside. On the day of
Moora's birthday Chandra gifts her his belongings which gives the complete memory of his childhood
on Nandini's insistence; she says that for a mother her children is of foremost importance. Moora is
deeply impressed by chandra's gift. Nandini decides to gift her a painting of Sooryagupt but Roopa
exchanges it with a suhagan's dress. Moora is red in anger. Chandra decides to punish Nandini,
meanwhile it is revealed by Kanika that her and Moora's gift from Nandini is exchanged. Moora
apologizes to Nandini and an Utasv is organised that evening. Roopa is in anger on the failure of her
plan decides to teach Nandini a lesson that evening. Meanwhile, Sunanda makes Nandini
unconscious and Roopa drags Malayketu and dances with him in everyone's presence. All are very
annoyed, especially Chhaya. Next day Nandini is not aware of what happened the previous day....