Aahat
Aahat (English: An approaching sound) is an Indian thriller/horror television anthology series created by B. P. Singh for Sony Entertainment Television.[1] The series premiered on 5 October 1995. One of the episodes of the first season, Abhinetri, telecast in 1998, generated a very high TRP for the show. The episodes of first, second and fifth seasons were half-hourly, while episodes of third, fourth and sixth seasons were one-hourly. Om Puri, Mandira Bedi, Tom Alter, Ashutosh Rana, Shivaji Satam, Virendra Saxena and noted theater personality Satyadev Dubey have starred in the show. Canadian actor, Remi Kaler also worked in the series in 1999 and 2000. The sixth season premiered on 18 February 2015, starring Shakti Anand[2] and ended on 4 August 2015.[3]
| Aahat | |
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| Genre | Horror Supernatural |
| Created by | B. P. Singh |
| Written by | Yash and Sima Shridhar Raghavan Sriram Raghavan |
| Directed by |
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| Creative director(s) | Christabelle D'Souza |
| Starring | See below |
| Composer(s) | Raju singh |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language(s) | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 556 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
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| Producer(s) | B. P. Singh Pradeep Uppoor |
| Production location(s) | Mumbai, India |
| Cinematography |
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| Editor(s) | Gaurav Meshram |
| Running time | 42 minutes approximately |
| Production company(s) | Fireworks Productions |
| Distributor | Sony Pictures Networks |
| Release | |
| Original network | Sony Entertainment Television |
| Picture format | |
| Original release | 5 October 1995 – 4 August 2015 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Plot
The first season was mostly a crime thriller-whodunit with only occasional episodes on the supernatural. After the first season, each story focused on a different aspect of paranormal activity, such as ghosts, zombies, phantoms, undead persons, possessed objects and witches and wizards.[2]
Cast
Each story had a different star cast. Sometimes the actors/actresses who had appeared in some episodes of the series reappeared in other episodes of the series.
Series overview
| Series | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
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| First aired | Last aired | ||||
| 1 | 287 | 5 October 1995 | 6 April 2001 | ||
| 2 | 28 | 19 November 2004[4] | 10 June 2005 | ||
| 3 | 21 | 13 January 2007[5] | 16 June 2007 | ||
| 4 | 66 | 13 November 2009 | 26 June 2010 | ||
| 5 | 78 | 28 June 2010 | 25 November 2010 | ||
| 6 | 76 | 18 February 2015[2] | 4 August 2015[3] | ||
Season 1 (1995–2001)
Aahat was first shot in 1994 as a suspense thriller, and began broadcast on 5 October 1995, each story being split across two episodes. The season aired on Thursday nights, later shifting to every Friday nights. After about 40 episodes with the same theme, one episode with a supernatural theme was made and when audiences for the series rose sharply, it made the switch.[6]
Episodes and Cast
- Episode 1 : The Closed Room
Cast: Rajesh Khattar, Ashutosh Rana, Utkarsha Naik, Pinky Singh
- Episode 2 : Snake
Cast: Shri Vallabh Vyas, Shashi Kiran, Prateeksha Lonkar, R.S Chopra, Meghna Roy
- Episodes 3 & 4 : Poison
Cast: Roshni Achreja, Bobby Khanna, Mamta Luthra, Dhananjay Mandrekar
- Episode 5 The Last Show
Cast: Ananya Khare, Channa Ruparel
- Episode 6 : Julia
Cast: Govind Namdev, Lalit Tiwari, Ramesh Rai
- Episode 7 : Death Sentence
Cast: Anang Desai, Yogesh Khokher, Sushil Parashar, Rekha Rao
- Episodes 8 & 9 : Terror
Cast: Madan Jain, Dinesh Kaushik, Raj Lakshmi, Naresh Suri, Surekha Sikri
- Episode 10 & 11 : First Love
Cast: Harsh Chhaya, Sunita Kishan, Ajit Mehra, Sushil Parashar
- Episodes 12 to 15 Explosion
Cast: Achyut Potdar, Ashutosh Rana, Sayaji Shinde, Dilip Kulkarni
- Episodes 16 & 17 : The Bet
Cast: Prashant Narayanan, Ravi Gossain, Nissar Khan, Mamta Zaveri, R.S. Chopra, Dhananjay Mandrekar, Priti Chaddha
- Episodes 18 & 19 : Unfaithful
Cast: Raja Bundela, Prateeksha Lonkar, Mona Ambegaonkar, Ajit Mehra
- Episodes 20 & 21 : Gambler
Cast: Govind Namdev, Ketki Dave, Deepak Shirke, Bhupendra Avasthi
- Episodes 22 & 23 : Ruthless
Cast: Virendra Saxena, Samta Sagar, Sunil Barve, Lata Haya
- Episodes 24 & 25 : Eye Witness
Cast: Navni Parihar, Dilip Kulkarni
- Episodes 26 & 27 : The Doom
Cast: Ravi Khanvilkar, Uttara Baokar, Ravi Jhankal, Satyadev Dubey
- Episodes 28 & 29 : Killer Hands
Cast: Vijay Kashyap, Jharna Dave, Achyut Potdar
- Episode 30 : Where Is Yashwant?
Cast: Yusuf Khurram, Naresh Suri, Kavita Vaid, Vijayan Nair, Hemant Thapliyal, Bapi Bose
- Episodes 31 & 32 : Stiffness
Cast: Sushil Parashar, Shri Vallabh Vyas, Vineet Kumar, Prathamesh Mehta, Roshan Khan, Anil Nagrath,
- Episodes 33 & 34 : Red Rose
Cast: Reshma Polekar, Virendra Singh, Abhimanyu Singh, Neena Cheema, Raj Tilak, Sandeep Kulkarni
- Episodes 35 : After His Death
Cast: Anoop Soni, Damini Kanwal Shetty, Anil Yadav, Vijay Raj
- Episode 36 & 37 : The Wish
Cast: Ragesh Asthana, Anuradha Sawant, Arun Bali, Dhananjay Mandrekar, Satyadev Dubey, Meghna Kothari, Ravi Patwardhan, Dhananjay Manjrekar
- Episode 38 : The Night
Cast: Chandra Mohan, Prashant Bhatt, Neeta Desai, Saanvri
- Episodes 39 & 40 : The Hijack
Cast: Tushar Dalvi, Shreechand Makhija, Pinky Singh, Sanjay Mishra
- Episode 41 : The Haunted
Cast: Bobby Khanna, Anil Yadav, Joan David
- Episodes 42 & 43 : Reflection
Cast: Madan Jain, Vineet Kumar, Sushil Parashar, R.S Chopra, Manoj Pahwa, Dinesh Phadnis
- Episode 44 : Nectar
Cast: Virendra Saxena, Anil Kochar, Ramesh Rai
- Episodes 45 & 46 : The Eye
Cast: Samta Sagar, Saurabh Dubey, Kanchan Rawal, Pabitra Goregaonkar, Chand Dhar, Vijay Raj, Dhananjay Manjrekar
- Episode 47 : The Time Machine
Cast: Achyut Potdar, Rinku Karmarkar, Tarun Shukla
- Episodes 48 & 49 : The Bridegroom
Cast: Karan Oberoi, R.S. Chopra, Prithvi Zutshi, Mukhesh Jadav, Sunil Matoo, Pankaj Kalra, Falguni Parekh, Ved Thapar
- Episodes 50 & 51 : The Gamble
Cast: Jaya Mathur, Mohan Gokhale, Satyadev Dubey, Ahmed Khan
- Episode 52 : The Husband
Cast: Priya Tendulkar, Roma Navni, Dinesh Kaushik, Deepak Shirke
- Episodes 53 & 54 : The Voice
Cast: Kanwaljit Singh, Jharna Dave, Kamal Malik, Madhupriya
- Episode 55 : Jaal
Cast: Anoop Soni, Amit Behl, Navni Parihar, Reshma Polekar
- Episode 56 & 57 : Diamonds
Cast: Raza Murad, Anil Nagrath, Chand Dhar
- Episodes 58 & 59 : Inheritance
Cast: R.Madhavan, Sanjay Mishra, Aman Khanna, Achyut Poddar, Priti Chaddha
- Episodes 60 & 61 : Woh Kaun Thi?
Cast: Karan Shah, Bakul Thakkar, Deepak Deulkar, Reena Kapoor, Anand Goradia, Nikhil Dewan
- Episodes 62 & 63 : The Noose
Cast: Navin Nischol, Abhay Bhargav, Jahangir Khan, Hari Om Parashar, Ahmed Khan
- Episodes 64 & 65 : The Rain
Cast: Joan David, Kavita Vaid, Gufi Paintal, Rajdev Jamdade, Bhupendra Avasthi
- Episodes 66 & 67 : Anamika
Cast: Jitendra Trehan, Dhananjay Manjrekar, Rasik Dave, Shalini Kapoor, Loveleen Mishra, Raj Tilak, Shrichand Makhija, Vicky Ahuja
- Episodes 68 & 69 : Lapata
Cast: Tej Sapru, Usha Bachani, Narendra Gupta, G.P. Singh, Anil Yadav
- Episode 70 & 71 : The Hunter
Cast: Vaquar Sheikh, Ashok Banthia, Ravi Jhankal, Shivaji Satam
- Episodes 72 & 73 : The Lake
Cast: Puja Madan, Ashok Shinde, Mahesh Thakur, Prithvi Zutshi
- Episodes 74 & 75 : The 12th Man
Cast: Ramesh Rai, Anil Nagrath, Bobby Vats, Shahrukh Sadri
- Episodes 76 & 77 : MMM 1857
Cast: Lalit Parimoo, Rakesh Bidua, Deepraj Rana
There were no Episodes 78 and 79.
- Episodes 80 & 81 : The Mirror
Cast: Anoop Soni, Reena Kapoor, Dinesh Phadnis, Reshma Polekar, Rajita Kochar, Raj Kiran, Abhay Bhargav,
- Episodes 82 & 83 : The Return
Cast: Javed Khan, Shivani Gossain, Bharat Kapoor, Anil Nagrath, Madhupriya, Bhupendra Awasthi
- Episodes 84 & 85 : The Morgue
Cast: Pawan Malhotra, Rakhee Malhotra, Vishwajit, Supriya Vinod, Saurabh Dubey, Santosh Kaushik
- Episodes 86 & 87 : Asli Ya Naqli
Cast: Ashwini Kalsekar, Laxmikant Berde, Sunil Rege, G.P Singh, Ashiesh Roy Basu, Raman Kapoor
- Episodes 88 & 89 : Yaad
Cast:Anang Desai, Kartika Rane, Vaquar Sheikh, Ali Asgar, Nikhil Dewan
- Episode 90 & 91 : Vaada
Cast: Deepak Deulkar, Ramesh Rai, Prithvi Zutshi, Firdaus Dadi, Roshni Achreja, Sheetal Thakkar, Shweta Gautam, Alefia Kapadia, Madhu Malhotra, Jitendra Trehan
- Episodes 92 & 93 : The Call
Cast: Utkarsha Naik Chandra Mohan, Achyut Potdar, Haider Ali, Kavita Vaid, Tarakesh Chauhan
- Episode 94 & 95 : The Lemon
Cast: Ravi Jhankal, Honey Chhaya, Shubhangi Gokhale, Dilip Kulkarni, Shubhangi Latkar
- Episodes 96 & 97 : The Trespasser
Cast: Sudesh Berry, Ramon Singh, Achint Kaur, Sushil Parashar, Ragesh Asthana
- Episodes 98 & 99 : Hide & Seek
Cast: Shalini Kapoor, Raj Kiran, Samta Sagar, Deepak Shirke
- Episodes 100 & 101 : Jaage Raho
Cast: Neha Sharad, Kanwaljit Singh, Om Puri, Chaitanya Adib, Tarakesh Chauhan, Bhupendra Awasthi
- Episodes 102 & 103 : Khilona
Cast: Reshma Polekar, Abhay Bhargav, Tushar Dalvi, Virendra Singh, Purvi Sanghvi, Kuldeep, Gazala Selmin
- Episodes 104 & 105 : The Deep
Cast: Sushma, Deepak Deulkar, Raju Kher, Mohan Gokhale, Ahmed Khan
- Episodes 106 & 107 : Shakti
Cast: Shivaji Satam, Madhu Malhotra, Narendra Gupta, Vaquar Sheikh, Ramesh Rai, Bhupendra Awasthi
- Episodes 108 & 109 : Ward No. 33
Cast: Mona Ambegaonkar, Sushil Parashar, Ashutosh Gowariker, Shishir Sharma, Anil Yadav, Ashok Banthia, Vicky Ahuja
- Episodes 110 & 111 : The Jungle
Cast: Karan Oberoi, Kartika Rane, Anand Goradia, Bakul Thakkar, Achint Kaur, Ritvika Dey, Ramesh Goyal, Jahangir Khan, Raj Tilak, Sanvri
- Episodes 112 & 113 : Badla
Cast: Sajni Hanspal, Gautam Chaturvedi, Vijay Kashyap, Pawan Malhotra, Swati Anand, Dilip Kulkarni
- Episodes 114 & 115 : Raaz
Cast: Reena Kapoor, Shri Vallabh Vyas, Sanjeev Seth, Shubhangi Latkar, Vijayan Nair
- Episodes 116 & 117 : Tasveer
Cast: Supriya Vinod, Shweta Gautam, Sulabha Deshpande, Naresh Suri, Rajendra Chawla, Haider Ali
- Episodes 118 & 119 : The Curse
Cast: Reshma Polekar, Vivek Shauq, Rasik Dave
- Episodes 120 & 121 : Jeevan Mrityu
Cast: A.K Hangal, Vandana Sajmani, Anil Nagrath, Jayant Kriplani, Milind Gawali
- Episodes 122 & 123 : Imagination
Cast: Meenakshi Gupta, Tarakesh Chauhan, Abha Parmar, Dhananjay Mandrekar, Bhupendra Awasthi
- Episodes 124 & 125 : Waqt
Cast: Madan Joshi, Kabir Sadanand, Md.Bashir, Kavita Vaid, Ramon Singh
- Episodes 126 & 127 : Talaash
Cast: Sushil Parashar, Rajesh Khera
- Episodes 128 & 129 : The Lifeguard
Cast: Resham Tipnis, Kabir Sadanand
- Episodes 130 & 131 : Kirdaar
Cast: Sangeeta Ghosh, Shashi Puri, Ragesh Asthana, Sonalia Kapadia
- Episodes 132 & 133 : The Incident
Cast: Reshma Polekar, Mona Ambegaonkar, Lalit Parimoo, Dewen Verma, Bhupendra Awasthi, Deepraj Rana
- Episodes 134 & 135 : Third Eye
Cast: Shivaji Satam, Reena Kapoor, Sushil Parashar, Shweta Gautam, Anil Kochar
- Episodes 136 & 137 : Chetavani
Cast: Kavita Rathod, Sanjeev Seth, Jyotsna Karyekar, Kiran Karmarkar, Urvashi Dholakia
- Episodes 138 & 139 : Samay
Cast: Akhilendra Mishra, Zubeda Khan, Asha Bachani, Shubhangi Latkar
- Episodes 140 & 141 : Humshakal
Cast:Puja Madan
- Episodes 142 & 143 : Nasha
Cast: Makarand Deshpande, Supriya Karnik, Ramesh Rai
- Episodes 144 & 145 : The Telephone
Cast: Reshma Polekar, Shashi Puri
- Episodes 146 & 147 : Saakshi
Cast: Firdaus Dadi, Meena, Rajesh Khera
- Episodes 148 & 149 : The Scarecrow
Cast: Naresh Suri, Sangeeta Ghosh, Achint Kaur, Sai Ballal
- Episodes 150 & 151 : Barrack No. 18
Cast: Anirudh Agarwal, Anant Jog, Aditya Srivastava, Shailendra Mishra
- Episodes 152 & 153 : Bhavishya
Cast: Akhilendra Mishra, Shri Vallabh Vyas
- Episodes 154 & 155 : Subah
Cast: Md.Bashir, Reshma Polekar, Achyut Poddar, Jahangir Khan, Ashok Banthia, Kumar Hegde
- Episodes 156 & 157 : The Locked Door
Cast: Neena Kulkarni, Asha Bachani, Jyotsna Karyekar, Saanvri
- Episodes 158 & 159 : Avinash
Cast: Sangeeta Ghosh, Urvashi Dholakia, Dinesh Kaushik, Neelam Sagar
- Episodes 160 & 161 : Mehmaan
Cast:Adiya Srivastava, Nagesh Bhonsle
- Episodes 162 & 163 : The Camera
Cast: Puja Madan, Aparna Chaudhary, Deepan Vartak, Chandra Mohan, Vikram Sahu, Balwinder, Ashok Shinde
- Episodes 164 & 165 : The Accident
Cast: Dheeraj Sarna, Ashish Kapoor, Tushar Dalvi, Resham Tipnis, Ashwin Kaushal, Manish Garg, Haidar Ali, Anant Jog, Meghna Kothari
- Episodes 166 & 167 : Amanush
Cast: Rajendra Gupta, Jyoti Joshi, Ramesh Rai, Vivek Shauq, Nareh Suri, Chetan Bhagat, Priti Chadha, Shivani Gossain
- Episodes 168 & 169 : The Magic
Cast: Reshma Polekar, Madan Joshi, Shailendra Mishra, Milind Gawali, Shahrukh Sadri
- Episodes 170 & 171 : The Face
Cast: Shweta Gautam, Sanjeev Seth, Prateeksha Lonkar, Dewen Verma, Abhay Barghava
- Episodes 172 & 173 : Aag
Cast: Sajni Hanspal, Anant Jog, Gautam Chaturvedi, Shubhangi Latkar
- Episodes 174 & 175 : The Room Mate
Cast: Mansi Salvi, Firdaus Dadi, Amar Upadhyay, Pamela Mukherjee, Shraddha
- Episodes 176 & 177 : Room No. 402
Cast: Mona Ambegaonkar, Roshni Achreja, Milind Gawali, Shishir Sharma, Jahangir Khan
- Episodes 178 & 179 : Yesterday
Cast: Akshay Anand, Akhilendra Mishra, Shubhangi Gokhle, Bhupendra Awasthi
- Episodes 180 & 181 : The Woman
Cast: Mita Bisht, Kabir Sadanand, Abha Dhulia, Saanvri
- Episodes 182 & 183 : Gumraah
Cast: Seema Shetty, Bakul Thakkar, Purbi Joshi, Radha Krishna Dutt, Ahmed Khan
- Episodes 184 & 185 : Anjaam
Cast: Deepak Shirke, Ramesh Rai, Abhiram, Surekha Sikri
- Episodes 186 & 187 : Kabza
Cast: Reshma Polekar, Vaquar Sheikh, Shri Vallabh Vyas, Vani Tripathi, Kajal
- Episodes 190 & 191 : The Talking Skull
- Episodes 194 & 195 : Route No. 61
Cast: Anant Jog, Chaitanya, Sajni Hanspal, Amit Behl, Deven Verma
- Episodes 196 & 197 : The Last Reel
Cast: Mandira Bedi, Lalit Parimoo, Smita Bansal, Sanjay Swaraj, Ashok Bhatia, Dinesh Kaushik
- Episodes 198 & 199 : Encounter
Cast: Firdaus Dadi, Rajesh Khera, Seema Shetty, Ravi Gossain, Madan Joshi, Kiran Chandra, Deepak Qasir
- Episodes 202 & 203 : Faces
Cast: Mansi Salvi, Rushali, Naresh Suri, Shubhangi Latkar
- Episodes 204 & 205 : Tina
Cast: Salim Shah, Bakul Thakkar, Smita Bansal, Anant Jog, Pabitra Goregaonkar
- Episodes 206 & 207 : Saza-E-Maut
- Episodes 208 & 209 : Mulaqat
Cast: Purbi Joshi, Jayant Kripalani
- Episodes 210 & 211 : Kaayar
Cast: Karan Singh Vohra, M.Merchant, Shweta Gautam
- Episodes 212 & 213 : Tohfa
Cast: Tushar Dalvi, Mandira Bedi, Ragesh Asthana, Supriya Vinod, Nivedita Bhattacharya, Remi Kishan, Meenakshi Verma, Tom Alter
- Episodes 214 & 215 : The Last Wish
Cast: Ragesh Asthana, Arun Bali, Sunita
- Episodes 216 & 217 : Jaadugar
Cast: Rushali, Paintal
- Episodes 218 & 219 : The Mourner
Cast: Anil Nagrath, Manoj Verma, Reshma Polekar, Akhilendra Mishra
- Episodes 226 & 227 : Teen Qaidi
Cast: Madan Joshi, Grusha Kapoor, Remi Kishan, Ravi Khanvilkar
- Episodes 258 & 259 : Night College
Cast: Kuljeet Randhawa, Shri Vallabh Vyas, Sanjay, Sunita Rajwar
- Episode 264 : Unnamed
Cast: Anant Jog, Shailendra Mishra, Surekha Sikri, Hetal Yadav, J.P
- Episode 268 & 269 : The Apartment
Cast: Mona Ambegaonkar, Ravindra Mankani
- Episodes 270 & 271 : The Lodge
Cast: Nitesh Pandey, Manoj Joshi, Divya Jagdale, Nagesh Bhonsle
- Episodes 282 & 283 : Final Year
Cast:Abir Goswami
- Episodes 284 & 285 : Nightmare Disco
Cast: Sanghvi Puri, Gauri Dixit, Rushali, Ekta Sharma, Rakesh Paul, Manav Kaul, Akshay Singh, Pradeep Shukla
- Episode 286 : Mud
Cast: Varsha Usgaonkar, Nawab Shah, Md.Bashir, Reshma Polekar, Aparna Chaudhary
- Episode 287 : 13th Floor
Cast: Tanaaz Kurrim, Rajita Kochar, Jayant Kripalani, Bijay Anand
- Episode 288 : Ghulami
Cast: Akshay Anand, Prashant Bhatt, Akshay Singh, Seema Shetty
- Episode 289 : Wajood
Cast: Nivedita Bhattacharya, Roshni Achreja, Rekha Rao, Deepan Vartak
- Episode 290 : Glass Case
Cast: Nagesh Bhonsle, Falguni Parikh, Reshma Polekar, Milind Gawali
- Episode 291 : Faceless
Cast: Annanya Khare, Karan Shah, Rajesh Khera, Remi Kishan
- Episode 292 : Kal, Aaj Aur Kal
Cast: Nagesh Bhonsle, Tom Alter, Chitra Kopikar
Season 2 (2004–2005)
Due to the popularity of the first season, Sony TV decided to bring back the series in its second season. The second season aired on Friday nights. The episode format was same as of the first season. This time the season failed to gain TRP ratings.[7]
Cast
- Sumukhi Pendse as Chetna (Episode 1)
- Bobby Parvez as Rishi (Episode 1)
- Deepshikha Nagpal as Reena (Episode 1 & Episode 2)
- Abhay Shankar Jha as Doctor (Episode 2)
- Kabir Sadanand as Pratap (Episode 3 & Episode 4)
- Chetanya Adib as Manohar (Episode 3 & Episode 4)
- Ravee Gupta as Sonalika (Episode 3 & Episode 4)
- Rajendra Chawla as Advocate (Episode 3 & Episode 4)
- Bhairavi Raichura as Ragini (Episode 7 & Episode 8)
- Shahab Khan as Doctor (Episode 7 & Episode 8)
- Tushar Dalvi as Ragini's Father (Episode 7 & Episode 8)
- Sheela Sharma as Ragini's Mother (Episode 7 & Episode 8) / Deepa (Episode 21 & Episode 22)
- Disha Vakani as Bina (Episode 8)
- Rajiv Kumar as Rajiv (Episode 9 & Episode 10)
- Sudhanshu Pandey as Shekhar (Episode 9 & Episode 10)
- Nazneen Patel as Mohini (Episode 9 & Episode 10)
- Prithvi Zutshi as Shekhar's Father (Episode 9 & Episode 10)
- Ahmed Khan as Prakash (Episode 10)
- Vijay Bhatia as Amit's Friend (Episode 10)
- Malini Kapoor as Payal (Episode 12)
- Keerti Gaekwad Kelkar as Deepti (Episode 12)
- Manav Kaul as Manoj (Episode 12)
- Arjun Punj as Sunil (Episode 12)
- Bakul Thakkar as Inspector (Episode 12)
- Gopal Singh as Evil Spirit (Episode 12)
- Syed Zafar Ali as Garima's Husband (Episode 13)
- Jaydutt Vyas as Shopkeeper (Episode 13)
- Manish Raisinghan as Suraj (Episode 13 & Episode 14)
- Anant Jog as Alka's Father (Episode 13 & Episode 14) / Jagmohan (Episode 20)
- Rekha Rao as Alka's Mother (Episode 13 & Episode 14)
- Milind Gunaji as Shekhar (Episode 17 & Episode 18)
- Resham Tipnis as Avantika (Episode 17 & Episode 18)
- Aayam Mehta as Vinay (Episode 17)
- Manish Khanna as Guruji (Episode 18)
- Moon Banerrjee as Neha (Episode 19 & Episode 20)
- Deepak Dutta as Kunal (Episode 19 & Episode 20)
- Mihir Mishra as Vishesh (Episode 19 & Episode 20)
- Ajay Trehan as Girdhari (Episode 20)
- Sanjeet Bedi as Abhi (Episode 21 & Episode 22)
- Narendra Gupta as K.D. (Episode 21 & Episode 22)
- Kiran Karmarkar as Prashant (Episode 24)
- Simple Kaul as Pinky (Episode 24)
- Harsh Vashisht as Sanjay (Episode 24)
- Vicky Ahuja as Naresh (Episode 24)
- Avantika Nehru Madan as a traveler Avantika Nehru Madan (Episode 7)
Season 3 (2007)
The third season was titled as Aahat: Dahshat Ki Teesri Dastak (English: An approaching sound: The Third Coming of Horror). The season aired on Saturday nights, each story being shown in a single episode. This time too the season didn't manage to gain TRP ratings and the season was shut down soon.[5]
Cast
- Anushka Singh as Saloni's Colleague (Episode 1) / Amrita (Episode 11) / Riya (Episode 16)
- Simple Kaul as Princess Mrinmayee (Episode 1)
- Parineeta Borthakur as Kamya (Episode 1)
- Karan Oberoi as Uday (Episode 1)
- Mansi Parekh as Miilee (Episode 2)
- Jasveer Kaur as Sonia (Episode 2)
- Vikram Acharya as Varun (Episode 2)
- Tarun Khanna as Deepesh (Episode 4)
- Aarzoo Govitrikar as Deepesh's Wife (Episode 4)
- Nikhhil R Khera as Rony (Episode 4)
Pradeep Kabra as Vinod (Episode 6)
- Pratap Sachdev as Ashutosh (Episode 6)
- Chhavi Mittal as Natasha (Episode 6)
- Neha Marda as Komal (Episode 6)
- Pankaj Berry as Rajeshwar (Episode 6)
- Shahab Khan as Dr. Pranay (Episode 6)
- Murli Sharma as Arihan (Episode 10) / Mihir (Episode 19)
- Vijay Bhatia as Mukul (Episode 10)
- Karishma Randhawa as Sameera (Episode 11)
- Kuldeep Dubey as Rahul (Episode 11)
- Faisal Raza Khan as Neeraj (Episode 11)
- Benika Deepak as Sonal (Episode 11)
- Sanjay Mitra as Ryan (Episode 12)
- Manini Mishra as Vikina (Episode 12)
- Snehal Sahay as Sanya (Episode 12)
- Nimisha Vakharia as Meju (Episode 12)
- Shaleen Bhanot as Mayank (Episode 13)
- Nisha Sareen as Rekha (Episode 13)
- Shashi Sharma as Caretaker (Episode 13)
- Parikshit Sahni as Avinash (Episode 13)
- Neelu Kohli as Durga (Episode 13)
- Manasi Varma as Sakshi (Episode 16)
- Siddharth Vasudev as Rudra (Episode 16)
- Prithvi Zutshi as Professor Baashik (Episode 16)
- Karishma Tanna as Laseeka (Episode 17)
- Amit Behl as Rana, the owner of haveli (Episode 17)
- Deepshikha as Maya (Episode 18)
- Adita Wahi as Kamya (Episode 18)
- Jayant Rawal as Kamya's Father (Episode 18)
- Nimai Bali as Tilips (Episode 18)
- Ram Bahadur Renu as Brijmohan (Episode 18)
- Vaishnavi Mahant as Sukanya (Episode 19)
- Mithilesh Chaturvedi as Caretaker (Episode 19)
- Raymon Singh as Vishal's Mother (Episode 20)
- Mona Vasu as Anjali (Episode 20)
- Armaan Tahil as Guest Actor (In Many Episodes)
Season 4 (2009–2010)
The fourth season was titled Aahat: The All New Series, which aired on every Friday and Saturday nights. In the season, Durjan, head of Paranormal And Supernatural Activities Research who used to collect powers from the spirits for his boss sends Harsh (Chaitanya Choudhury), Raghav (Vishal Gandhi) and Yamini (Krystle D'Souza) to deal with a new supernatural power every week with the story being split into two episodes. The season had three crossover episodes with the series CID. Once in November 2009, second time in February 2010 and third time in June 2010. This time the season managed to gain high TRP ratings and was declared a hit. It is one of the most popular seasons of Aahat.
Season 5 (2010)
Due to the huge popularity of the fourth season, Sony TV decided to telecast the series four days a week. The fifth season aired on every Monday to Thursday nights. Every week, two stories were telecast, each story being split across two episodes. But this idea didn't take off; the TRP ratings dropped once again and the channel had to shut down the series on 25 November 2010.
To celebrate 15 years of the series, this season featured a 16 - episode arc titled "Maut Ka Khel" (English: "The Game of Death") which aired starting 20 September 2010. This was heavily inspired by the 1999 Hollywood horror film House On Haunted Hill. The storyline follows celebrities (Sidharth Shukla, Roshni Chopra, Aashka Goradia, Vivan Bhatena, Gautam Rode, Ketki Dave, Tanaaz Irani, Bakhtiyaar Irani, Aryan Vaid, Bobby Darling, Karishma Tanna, Sanjeet Bedi and Shahbaz Khan) who lived in a 200-year-old haunted house. [8]
- Iqbal Azaad as Aakash (Episode 28)
Season 6 (2015)
The first episode of the sixth installation of the series premiered on 18 February 2015.[2] Initially, the series was aired bi-weekly on every Wednesday and Thursday nights. The first episode of the series had gained a TRP rating of 2.9. Due to high ratings, the channel decided to telecast the season four days on every Monday to Thursday nights. But after a couple of weeks, the TRP ratings dropped, and the channel had to shut down the season on 4 August 2015.[3][9]
Cast
- Shakti Anand as Shekhar (episode 1)
- Vipul Roy as Jayveer (episode 25)
- Harsh Rajput
- Abhishek Tewari
- Neel Motwani as Aman (episode 56)
- Navi Bhangu as Siddharth (episode 57)
- Jasmine Avasia as Alisha (episode 68)
- Sanjay Gagnani as Akash (episode 64)
- Surbhi Chandna
- Neha Pawar as Pooja (episode 57)
- Aanchal Khurana as Neha (episode 69)
- Sunayana Fozdar
- Nikita Sharma
- Karishma Sharma as Sonia (episode 29)
- Anupriya Goenka
- Barkha Singh as Simran (episode 9)
- Sheena Bajaj as Nisha (episode 4)
- Jyotsna Chandola
- Swati Semwal as Sanjana (episode 57)
- Neetha Shetty as Malvika (episode 13)
- Kreetika Sharma as Radhika (episode 55)
- Tanvi Thakkar as Sonia (episode 64)
List of episodes
Season 1
- 1 The Closed Room
- 2 Snake
- 3 Poison(Part 1)
Reception
Critical response
The first five seasons of the series received general acclaim but response for the sixth season was quite mixed. Vineeta Kumar of India TV stated, "As against everybody's expectations, Aahat (season 6) doesn't seem that impressive."[10]
Sweta Kaushal of Hindustan Times stated, "The new episode of Aahat (season 6) does not scare at all and lives up to all the comic cliches that Indian horror shows have been following till date. At best, it is hilarious."[11]
Ratings
Vineeta Kumar of India TV gave the sixth season 2/5 stars, and further stated, "For all those who would be expecting grand with the elements of horror and spook in it, Aahat has come with a slight disappointment."[10]
Sweta Kaushal of Hindustan Times giving the same ratings to the sixth season, further stated, "The new episode shows women with bad make-up as the ghosts."[11]
Awards
Fireworks Productions was nominated for Best Continuing TV Programme and for Best Thriller/Horror Show Of The Year of Indian Telly Awards in 2002. Sujit Pattnaik and Tanmoy Ghosh won Indian Television Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects in 2010,[12] while Himanshu, Yogen and Kamal were nominated for the same category of the same award in 2005 and 2012, however, winning in 2011.[13]
International broadcasting
In Pakistan, it was aired on A-Plus Entertainment.
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- Vineeta Kumar (19 February 2015). "Aahat season 6: No worries, watch it with your 4 year old kid". India TV. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
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- "The Indian Television Academy Awards for 2011". Indian Television Academy. Archived from the original on 26 May 2012.