With Satyadev Dubey as Chanakya, Ravi Jhankal as Chandragupta, Anjan Shrivastava as Dhanananda, Meeta Vashisht as Suvasini, Lalit Tiwari as Rakshasa, Vijay Kashyap as Shakatara, Devendra Malhotra as Ashvalayan, Zarvan Patel as Alexander, Irfan as Malayaketu, and Padmanabhan as Seleucus.Īfter the gradual spread of Buddhism in India, Nehru notes that there were processes to bring about racial fusion and amalgamation of the petty states and republics to build up a united, centralised state into a powerful and highly developed empire.
A Production of Doordarshan, the Government of India’s Public Service BroadcasterĮpisode 11: Chanakya and Chandragupta, Part I