1857 Kranti

• Lalit Tiwari as Bajirao II • Ashok Banthia as Moropant, advisor to Bajirao II • Sunil Singh as Tatya Tope • Bhupinder Singh as Nana Sahib • Barkha Madan as Lakshmibai • S. M. Zaheer as Bahadur Shah Zafar • Jitendra Trehan as Gangadhar Rao Newalkar / Ghulam Abbas • Ajay Trehan as Kunwar Singh • Maya Alagh as Zeenat Mahal • Shashank Trivedi as Young Nana Sahib • Siraj Mustafa Khan as Siraj ud-Daulah • Nawab Shah as Robert Clive • Gireesh Sahdev as William Bentinck • Anwar Fatehan as Mir Jafar • Anupam Shyam as Pandit Vadarayan • Rishabh Shukla as Mirza Ghalib • Saurabh Dubey as Trimbakrao Pandit, Raj Purohit in Jhansi Kingdom • Vinod Kapoor as William Stephen Raikes Hodson • Ahmed Khan as Lord Dalhousie • Hariom Parashar as Narayan Bhat aka Madhav Narayan • Surbhi Tiwari as Vaishali, Nana Sahib's wife • Manish Khanna as Azimullah Khan • Syed Badr-ul Hasan Khan Bahadur as Manekchand Cameo • Raza Murad as Jahangir • Tej Sapru as Thomas Roe ==Background and production==

Speaking at the launch of the drama, Sanjay Khan, Chairman and Managing Director of the Numero Uno said, "The revolt of 1857 referred to as the Second Mutiny by the British is a very important facet of India’s freedom struggle. Therefore, in the age of low-cost family dramas, I have attempted to bring serials which have qualities of an epic and good cinematic values. India's first war of independence of 1857 is not more than three pages in any school textbook. What we are presenting is the drama and the sacrifices that people made for the nation so that nationalistic fervour is never lessened, but enhanced." There are quite a few songs in the drama that don't stop the progression of the story. We have recorded three songs out of the 20 planned. The first 12 episodes of the drama was shot in Rajasthan, Chambal, Trichur, Red Fort, Umargaon and Cochin at a cost of Rs 2.5 crore. == References ==