Encounter (Indian TV series)
| ENCOUNTER | |
|---|---|
| Creative director | Lalit Marathe |
| Presented by | Manoj Bajpayee |
| Starring | Aditya Redij Parag Tyagi Rajesh Shringarpure Adaa Khan Rohit Khurana Mishal Raheja Mazher Sayed Eijaz Khan Kinshuk Mahajan Samiksha Bhatt Alan Kapoor Piyush Sahdev Manish Wadhwa Vishal Karwal Shaleen Malhotra Mahhi Vij Sara Khan Sanjay Gagnani |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 28 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 43 minutes approximately |
| Production company | Endemol India |
| Original release | |
| Network | Sony Entertainment Television |
| Release | 11 April – 27 June 2014 |
Encounter is an Indian crime television series, produced by Endemol India for Sony Entertainment Television.[1] Its central plot was based on 35 encounters in Mumbai over 36 one-hour episodes.[2]
Plot
The series was based on reality based crimes, which was made to trace the encounters that took place in different places of India and those which were in media headlines for months and later everyone forgot.[3]
Cast
- Manoj Bajpayee as Anchor
Episodic appearances
- Aditya Redij as Inspector Bhagat Dave
- Shalmalee Desai as Mrs. Bhagat Dave
- Parag Tyagi as Inspector Ajay Vishwas
- Shibani Manchanda as Ragini Ajay Vishwas
- Rajesh Shringarpure as Shankya
- Shahbaaz Abdullah Badi as Ujjwal
- Adaa Khan as Sonali
- Rohit Khurana as Shaikh Ali
- Pramod Moutho as Commissioner Lawrence Perreira
- Mishal Raheja as Inspector Nitin Kamte
- Megha Gupta as Dr. Preeti
- Mazher Sayed as Sub Inspector Manish Kadam
- Bikramjeet Kanwarpal as Assistant Police Commissioner Vikramjeet Shinde
- Prashant Narayanan as Shamsher Bhopali
- Avantika Hundal
- Gopal Singh as Sikander Bagdadi
- Eijaz Khan as Inspector Ali Rizvi
- Chetan Hansraj as Mangesh (Mangya) Waghmare
- Sushmita Daan as Razia Ali Rizvi
- Prakash Ramchandani as MLA Janak Shetty
- Kinshuk Mahajan as Inspector Vinod More
- Samiksha Bhatt as Malini Vinod More
- Kunal Bakshi as Sub Inspector Avinash Salunkhe
- Mahesh Shetty as Mahesh Murthy
- Vishal Nayak as Anand Murthy
- Manish Khanna as Babu Rode
- Rohit Roy as Senior Inspector Milind Mandlik [4]
- Yuvraj Malhotra as Inspector Rizwan Mirza
- Murli Sharma as Katta Shridhar
- Alan Kapoor as Krishna
- Shresth Kumar as Amay
- Nandish Sandhu as Inspector Sartaj Qureshi
- Saurabh Dubey as Mr.Qureshi
- Sara Khan as Ayesha Raza
- Ravi Gossain as Kallan
- Vishal Karwal as Inspector Vikas Sawant
- Akshay Dogra as Ramya Narvekar
- Raj Singh as Varun Surve
- Vishal Thakkar as Baburam Sawant
- Prithvi Zutshi as Police Commissioner Vijay Mohanty
- Raman Khatri as Ramesh Solanki
- Piyush Sahdev as Inspector Anil Barve
- Mita Vashisht as Maya Sinha
- Rohit Purohit as Girish Sinha
- Nidhi Jha as Geeta Sinha
- Neetha Shetty as Ritu Joshi
- Arup Pal as Police Commissioner Kapil Mhatre
- Himmanshoo A. Malhotra as Inspector Tilak Nambiyar
- Barkha Bisht Sengupta as Urmila
- Parakh Madan as Sub Inspector Sapna
- Behzaad Khan as Ulhas
- Ruslaan Mumtaz as Inspector Praveen Joshi
- Raj Arjun as Dr. Roshan Lal
- Govind Khatri as Bhau
- Manini Mishra as Inspector Mita Gaekwad
- Mahhi Vij as Aashna
- Vinay Jain as Police Commissioner Surya Paneskar
- Ali Hassan as Bijoy
- Siraj Mustafa Khan as Fazlu
- Ganesh Hedge as Pasha
- Bhanu Uday as Inspector Praveen Waghle
- Manish Wadhwa as Hegde
- Arti Singh as Naina
- Sanjay Gagnani as Inspector Farid Khan
- Siddharth Vasudev as Suhas Kariyappa Kunchenaad
- Puneet Vashisht as Vikas Kariyappa Kunchenaad
- Nikhil Arya as Inspector Ajay Karmakar
- Jignesh Mehta as Inspector Sudeep Sharma
- Pankaj Vishnu as Prasadrao Godse
- Rio Kapadia as Police Commissioner
- Shaleen Malhotra as Inspector Achal Kutty
- Hanif Hilal as Sharib Dabba
- Tushar Jha as Child Achal Kutty
Reception
Throughout the globe, Encounter received mostly mixed to positive critical reception. The show has managed to make a mark with its storyline and presentation along with some brilliant casting.[5]
See also
References
- ^ "Manoj Bajpayee returns to TV with 'Encounter'". Business Standard. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
- ^ "Manoj Bajpayee to anchor TV series based on Mumbai's 35 encounters". The Times of India. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
- ^ "Encounter, The New Crime Show on Sony Tv". BollyMirror.
- ^ "Rohit Roy, Murli Sharma back on television". The Indian Express. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
- ^ "Sony TV's Encounter to air its last episode on 4 July". Tellychakkar. Retrieved 28 June 2014.