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Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani (2015)

Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani poster
Genre
drama
Country
India

How it feels

This Indian television series follows the love story of a queen and her prince. After their deaths, the show shifts to their daughter and her husband, then to a lookalike, and eventually to reincarnated versions of the original couple. The story includes many time jumps and character deaths.

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What happens

Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani (English: Once There was a King and Queen) is an Indian television period drama that aired on Zee TV on 27 July 2015. The show initially focused on the love story of Rani Gayatri (Drashti Dhami) and Ranaji (Siddhant Karnick) (Season 1). However, due to the deaths of their characters, the show focused on Rani (Eisha Singh), their daughter, and their son-in law, Raja (Sartaj Gill). However, the character of Rani also died, and her lookalike was introduced as Naina (also led by Eisha Singh). But again the main characters were killed (Raja and Naina died). But the show retained its main lead as it was shown that Raja and Rani had re-taken births as Raj and Rani, respectively. The show went off air on 4 July 2017. The show previously took a seven-year leap, followed by a 12-year leap, followed by a four-month leap, followed by a ten-year leap, and ended by a several years leap, after which these characters died in a car accident, leaving behind their daughter. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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