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Also known as Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani Written by Nilanjana Purkayastha, Rajita Sharma (story), Aparajita Sharma, Divya Sharma (Dialogues), Faizal Akhtar, Sweksha Bhagat (Screenplay) Creative director(s) Siddhartha Vankar Saurabh and Nilanaja P Similar Yeh Vaada Raha (TV series), Jamai Raja (TV series), Ek Mutthi Aasmaan (TV series) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani (English: There Was Once A King, There Was Once A Queen) is an Indian television period drama that airs on Zee TV. It premiered on 27 July 2015 and airs on weekdays at 9:30 pm. Season 1 was with the Drashti Dhami as the female lead, opposite Siddhant Karnick. In season 1 Drashti Dhami portrayed a very simple Gayatri to Rani Gayatri and then Savitri (a village belle) and lastly a warrior.
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Plot
Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani is the story set in 40s. Gayatri is the daughter of a rich zameendar, who is considered manglik by the people. On the other hand, Rana Indravadhan Singh is the king of Amerkot, who is in trauma due to losing his first wife, Rani Sulakshana. Ranaji' mother, Rajmata Priyamvada has a debt to pay with Gayatri's father, so she gives an offer to marry Gayatri & Ranaji. Ranaji unwontedly marries Gayatri. After marriage, Ranaji and Gayatri slowly start to get together. But then, enters a number of villains like Badi Rani Maa, fake Sulakshana, Avdesh, Rageshowri and so on. Later in the story due to Badi Rani Maa & Rageshowri, Ranaji marries Rageshowri and he loses his memory and forgets Gayatri. To get back Ranaji's love, Gayatri disguises as Savitri. After struggling a lot, she succeeds, and Ranaji gets his memory back. But the vengeful Badi Rani Maa brings Kaal, a jungle man and he kills Ranaji. Gayatri vows revenge but still she is killed by Badi Rani Maa after giving birth to a baby girl. Rajmata runs away with the baby girl. Ranaji and Gayatri are united in heaven.
Gayatri's and Ranaji's daughter, Rani grows up and she is taken care by Rajmata and Lakhan. She goes to the royal palace to work as a servant and there she befriends Raja, Jeevan and Bindu. Raja and Jeevan are Kaal's sons and Bindu is Lakhan's daughter. Kaal has now become the King. But their friendship is broken by the misunderstandings created by Badi Rani Maa. Soon, Raja and Rani get separated during their childhood.
After 12 years, Raja and Rani meet again in college. This time, when Raja meets Rani, he starts to create trouble for her as he believes that Rani was responsible for sending him to a boarding school. Still, their hate doesn't last long and they fall in love. On the day of wedding, Raja finds out that Rani is Ranaji and Gayatri's daughter and they were murdered by Kaal and Badi Rani Maa. Both of them get married. After marriage, they continue their romance and the villains like Jeevan, Bindu and Badi Rani Maa makes their life difficult. Raja imprisons Kaal and also Badi Rani Maa dies, while trying to kill Rani. Bindu is also arrested. Rani punishes her parent's criminals. Now, Nawaq Iqbal Khan has entered their life bringing a new challenge for Raja and Rani. Iqbal falls for Rani and troubles Raja to separate Rani. He shoots Raja and he falls down a cliff. After 4 months, Raja returns back. He was saved by Bindu. But when Raja returns back, he sees Rani and Iqbal together. So he plans revenge and disguises himself as Angad. But Rani soon recognizes him. Iqbal continues to plot against them and finally Raja starts to hate Rani. Raja falls in the bad company of dons. Rani and Iqbal die in a car accident.
After 10 years, Raja is now a don in Mumbai. A new girl, Naina, who is look-a-like of Rani enters. Raja starts to live with Laila, who is the daughter of a don and Raja has promised that he will take care of Laila. Naina is a junior artist in films and lives with her mother and sister. Raja thinks that Naina is Rani and starts to hate her. Rani, on the other hand, is liked by Vijay, a police. The show continues with the friendship and love triangle of Naina, Raja and Laila. When, Raja and Laila are about to get married, Raja says he don't want to marry Laila. This makes Laila think that Naina has brainwashed Raja. So she turns negative towards Naina. Naina also encounters Rani's spirit, who wants to unite Naina and Raja. Also, Vijay tries to rape Naina and he breaks her legs. Raja and Vijay have a fight, where Vijay is stabbed by Trishula of Goddess Durga. But Laila makes a fake news that Naina is characterless. To protect Naina, Raja marries her. This makes Laila to hate Naina
Cast of Season 2
Cast of Season 1
Reception
The show began with good ratings and became one of the most watched shows across all GEC's and was one of the top ten serials of 2015. Later due to poor repetitive tracks the TRPs dropped and it was scheduled to go off air. These were the rumours by people that the show will be go to off air. The track of both leading pair Drashti Dhami and Siddhant Karnick will be ending in serial and both decided to quit the show because of the leap is taken. Drashtis' acting received quite a few accolades especially when she donned the role of Savitri.
International Broadcast
In Pakistan, it airs on Geo Kahani.