Krishna Chali London

Radhe Lal Shukla lives in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh and belongs to a rich yet illiterate family. Humiliated for his illiteracy, his dominating and arrogant non-biological father, Shukla, decides to have Radhe marry an educated girl and chooses "district-topper" Krishna from the neighboring town of Malihabad.

Intelligent and ambitious, Krishna assists her father, Dubey, at his medical clinic. Her mother had died of cervical cancer and Krishna dreams of studying medicine in London and becoming a doctor. Though devastated by the idea of marrying into a conservative family, Krishna goes ahead with the wedding to save her father's reputation.

Immediately after the wedding, Krishna is humiliated by her mother-in-law, Shuklain, and others in the Shukla family who resent her for her independent thinking and modern views. However, Radhe supports her. Gradually, Krishna returns his affections and is able to bring some positive changes into the Shukla household starting with getting rid of domestic violence in the house. In a twist, it is revealed that Radhe is Lambodar and his late wife Vrinda's son. Lambodar, Shukla's elder brother, had murdered Vrinda when she tried to save Shuklain from Lambodar's unwanted sexual advances. Lambodar is sent to prison and Radhe and Krishna leave for London.

In medical school, Krishna is punished by stern, arrogant NRI professor Dr. Veer Sahay, a famous clinical cardiologist, whose native city is Unnao. Dr. Veer is expelled from his job for racist behaviour. His car hits Radhe who dies in the accident. The Shuklas promptly blame Krishna for his death and mistreat her. An emotionally broken Krishna is forced to stay with the Shuklas who had recently opened a special hospital named the Radhe Krishna Hospital where Krishna must now work.

Meanwhile, Lambodar tries to escape from prison and gets admitted to a hospital. Dr. Veer returns to India where his past is revealed to be connected to the Shuklas. Dr. Veer's father worked for Shukla who refused to lend him money for an important surgery which eventually led to Veer's father's death. Veer harbours a deep grudge against the Shuklas. He and Krishna are forced to run the Radhe Krishna Hospital and slowly fall in love with one another and are married.

Veer buys the Radhe Krishna Hospital at an auction and gifts it to Krishna. Shukla manipulates everyone including Krishna to think that Veer killed Radhe and was faking his love for Krishna. Veer gets ten years imprisonment for Radhe's murder. A heartbroken Krishna returns the hospital to Shukla ji and leaves for London to complete medical school.

Both the leads not hailing from backdrop of the series Kanpur, went on training to learn the accent and slang used there. Speaking about training for his role, lead Gaurav Sareen said, "The part that required most effort for the role was the language. Since I was born and brought up in Amritsar, I have a Punjabi accent, which was unfit for Radhe, who is from Kanpur. I read a lot of books and watched movies in the languages spoken in and around eastern Uttar Pradesh."[7] Megha Chakraborty who attended diction classes for it said, "I am from Kolkata and I am not well-versed with the Hindi language. When I was approached for the show, my character required me to learn a local dialect of Uttar Pradesh, which is very close to the Hindi language. Because of my difficulty with the dialect, I took classes from the on-set tutor and improved on my language skills. It took me a few days initially but I got better in a few months."[8]

Based on the backdrop of Kanpur, the series was mainly filmed at sets in Mumbai. However, some initial sequences were shot at Lucknow.[9] From late December 2018 to early January 2019, the series was filmed at London.[10]

In July 2018, a fire broke out on the sets while some clothes caught fire which was soon extinguished.[11]

In early January 2019, to increase the ratings, Sareen was made to quit the series when his was killed in a car accident in London which he came to know the day before shooting the sequence.[12] Karan Vohra who was cast as Veer in December 2018 became the lead then.[10][13]

It was remade in Kannada as Nan Hendthi MBBS, which premiered on Star Suvarna on 11 February 2019 and ended on 18 May 2019 with 82 episodes due to low viewership.[14][15] The series was based on the backdrop of Melkote which starred Sagar and Divya Rao.[16]

The series opened with a low viewership of 2.7 million viewership in its launch week in urban occupying eighteen position.[17] However, then it improved to a satisfactory level. In third week of August 2018, it occupied tenth position garnering 5.08 million viewership.[18] In week 41 of 2018 it was in ninenth position with 4.6 million impressions.[19] In week 43 of 2018, it was in fourteenth position with 4.9 million impressions.[20] In week 51 of 2018 it garnered 5.1 million impressions occupying fourteenth position and the following week it got 4.08 million impressions.[21][22]

With its decent average ratings, it maintained its position in weekly top twenty Hindi GEC in urban since its premiere until December 2018. To increase the ratings, in January 2019, the makers killed the character Radhe played by Gaurav Sareen and Karan Vohra playing Veer became the main lead opposite Megha Chakraborty. This saw a decline in its ratings during which in week 2 2019 it did not even feature in top 20 Hindi GEC in urban.[23] In week 5 2019, it occupied eighteenth position with 4.1 million impressions.[24]

In UK, during the week ending 24 March 2019, it became the most watched Hindi television series with 107,700 viewership.[25]

With the not expected ratings delivered by the series, it was ended on 14 June 2019 with the decreasing ratings and it garnered a low TRP of 1.1 in its last week of airing.[4]

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