Krishna is an Indian television series created, written, and directed by Ramanand Sagar

Ramanand Sagar

Ramanand Sagar was an Indian film director. He is most famous for making the extremely popular Ramayan television series, a television adaptation of the ancient Indian epic of the same name, starring Arun Govil as Lord Ram and Deepika Chikhalia as Sita.Sagar was born at Asal Guru-Ke near Lahore...

. The series originally aired weekly on Doordarshan

DoorDarshan

Doordarshan is an Indian public service broadcaster, a division of Prasar Bharati. It is one of the largest broadcasting organizations in India in terms of the infrastructure of studios and transmitters. Recently, it has also started Digital Terrestrial Transmitters. On September 15, 2009,...

. It is an adaptation of the stories of the life of Krishna

Krishna

Krishna is a central figure of Hinduism and is traditionally attributed the authorship of the Bhagavad Gita. He is the supreme Being and considered in some monotheistic traditions as an Avatar of Vishnu...

.156 episodes of Shri Krishna were telecasted on National network (DD1) in the year 1993. The rest 52 episodes were telecasted on Zee TV in 1999 and once more on Sony TV in 2001.This serial was also telecasted in Mauritius – Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto- Channel 57, Nepal –Nepal TV, South Africa- M.Net, Indonesia- P.T. Cipta Television, Jakarta- Pendidikan, Italy- Fifth Remini Cinema International Film Festival, London- U.K.- T.V.Asia (Satellite).

Direction and casting

Shri Krishna was produced by Ramanand Sagar, Subhash Sagar and Prem Sagar under the banner of “Sagar Enterprises” and directed by Ramanand Sagar, Anand Sagar and Moti Sagar. The role of young Krishna was played by Swapnil Joshi

Swapnil Joshi

Swapnil Joshi is a Indian film and television actor, in Hindi and Marathi languages. He is mainly known for his comic roles. He has done lead roles in TV series, Krishna , Hare Kkaanch Ki Choodiyaan , Marathi film Checkmate and Marathi film Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai...

 and grown up Krishna was played by Sarvadaman D. Banerjee

Sarvadaman D. Banerjee

Sarvadaman D. Banerjee is an Indian actor. He has acted in various Hindi, Sanskrit and Telugu movies. He is best known for playing Krishna in Ramanand Sagar's hit Television series Krishna .-Personal life:...

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Cast

• Sarvadaman D. Banerjee
  Sarvadaman D. Banerjee
  Sarvadaman D. Banerjee is an Indian actor. He has acted in various Hindi, Sanskrit and Telugu movies. He is best known for playing Krishna in Ramanand Sagar's hit Television series Krishna .-Personal life:...
  
   as Krishna
  Krishna
  Krishna is a central figure of Hinduism and is traditionally attributed the authorship of the Bhagavad Gita. He is the supreme Being and considered in some monotheistic traditions as an Avatar of Vishnu...
  
   (in heaven)
• Swapnil Joshi
  Swapnil Joshi
  Swapnil Joshi is a Indian film and television actor, in Hindi and Marathi languages. He is mainly known for his comic roles. He has done lead roles in TV series, Krishna , Hare Kkaanch Ki Choodiyaan , Marathi film Checkmate and Marathi film Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai...
  
   as Krishna (young adult)
• Pinky Parikh
  Pinky Parikh
  .Pinky Parikh is an Indian actress from Gujarat, India. She is well known for her act in Ramanand Sagar’s Shri Krishna as Rukmini, along with Sarvadaman D. Banerjee as Krishna. She also acted in various Indian TV serials and films...
  
   as Rukmini
  Rukmini
  In Hinduism, Rukmini is the principal wife and queen of Krishna at his city of Dwarka. Krishna heroically kidnaps her from an un-wanted marriage at her request . Of Krishna's 16,108 queens, Rukmini is the first and most prominent...