Chandragupta maurya serial casting series#

Chandragupta maurya serial casting series#

Chandragupta and the Nanda armies face each other in a series of encounters, wherein Dhana Nanda's 7 brothers, as well as some from the Chandra's side are also killed, including the Piplivan generals, Mura, Sthoolbhadra and Malayketu - who passed on his kingdom to Chandragupta. Dhana Nanda's Durdhara and Chandragupta also fall in love with each other and marry. They also find Malayketu, the lost son of Porus, and he is declared as the king of the Pauravas, hence Chandra gains help of the Paurava army, as well as the Takshashila which has no king. Ambhiraj and Ambhikumar both, are killed amidst this. Mura and Sthoolbhadra fail to save them, hence they are presumed dead by them too.Д¬handragupta comes out of the pit, along with Chanakya and other people who had been trapped in the pit earlier. The duo of Chanakya and Chandragupta are later thrown into a pit by Seleucus and Ambhikumar (now Ambhiraj) when they tried to seek their help. They later capture a fort, but they (Chanakya, Chandragupta, Mura and Sthoolbhadra - a friend of Chandragupta) are presumed dead in the siege, but actually the 4 escape. Together, Chanakya forms a small army, and they face Dhana Nanda, but lose. His father Chandravardhan was the king of the Piplivan Kingdom, but the kingdom was destroyed and Chandravardhan was killed by Dhana Nanda, and Chandragupta, a young prince, was sent away safely and sold as a slave, and his mother Mura was held captive. Chanakya trains Chandragupta, and the latter comes to know of his lineage.

Chanakya soon finds Chandragupta, and recognises him as someone who would be an able ruler of Magadha, and be responsible for a change in India. Chanakya arrives in Magadha, ruled by the unjust and cruel Nanda king Dhana Nanda to seek his help in overthrowing the Greeks out of India, but Dhana Nanda openly humiliates Chanakya in the court, which prompts the latter to take a vow of uprooting him from the throne and putting a capable ruler on the throne of Magadha. Chandragupta is a slave, and is supported in his antics by his friends. Alexander's general Seleucus Nikator is still in India, having allied himself with Ambhikumar (ruler of Takshashila). The show starts in 323 BCE, exactly after the deaths of Porus and Alexander The Great.