Aahat


Aahat is an Indian thriller/horror television anthology series created by B. P. Singh for Sony Entertainment Television. 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 and ended on 4 August 2015.

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.

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

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.
Episodes and Cast
Cast: Rajesh Khattar, Ashutosh Rana, Utkarsha Naik, Pinky Singh
Cast: Shri Vallabh Vyas, Shashi Kiran, Prateeksha Lonkar, R.S Chopra, Meghna Roy
Cast: Roshni Achreja, Bobby Khanna, Mamta Luthra, Dhananjay Mandrekar
Cast: Ananya Khare, Channa Ruparel
Cast: Govind Namdev, Lalit Tiwari, Ramesh Rai
Cast: Anang Desai, Yogesh Khokher, Sushil Parashar, Rekha Rao
Cast: Madan Jain, Dinesh Kaushik, Raj Lakshmi, Naresh Suri, Surekha Sikri
Cast: Harsh Chhaya, Sunita Kishan, Ajit Mehra, Sushil Parashar
Cast: Achyut Potdar, Ashutosh Rana, Sayaji Shinde, Dilip Kulkarni
Cast: Prashant Narayanan, Ravi Gossain, Nissar Khan, Mamta Zaveri, R.S. Chopra, Dhananjay Mandrekar, Priti Chaddha
Cast: Raja Bundela, Prateeksha Lonkar, Mona Ambegaonkar, Ajit Mehra
Cast: Govind Namdev, Ketki Dave, Deepak Shirke, Bhupendra Avasthi
Cast: Virendra Saxena, Samta Sagar, Sunil Barve, Lata Haya
Cast: Navni Parihar, Dilip Kulkarni
Cast: Ravi Khanvilkar, Uttara Baokar, Ravi Jhankal, Satyadev Dubey
Cast: Vijay Kashyap, Jharna Dave, Achyut Potdar
Cast: Yusuf Khurram, Naresh Suri, Kavita Vaid, Vijayan Nair, Hemant Thapliyal, Bapi Bose
Cast: Sushil Parashar, Shri Vallabh Vyas, Vineet Kumar, Prathamesh Mehta, Roshan Khan, Anil Nagrath,
Cast: Reshma Polekar, Virendra Singh, Abhimanyu Singh, Neena Cheema, Raj Tilak, Sandeep Kulkarni
Cast: Anoop Soni, Damini Kanwal Shetty, Anil Yadav, Vijay Raj
Cast: Ragesh Asthana, Anuradha Sawant, Arun Bali, Dhananjay Mandrekar, Satyadev Dubey, Meghna Kothari, Ravi Patwardhan, Dhananjay Manjrekar
Cast: Chandra Mohan, Prashant Bhatt, Neeta Desai, Saanvri
Cast: Tushar Dalvi, Shrichand Makhija, Pinky Singh, Sanjay Mishra
Cast: Bobby Khanna, Anil Yadav, Joan David
Cast: Madan Jain, Vineet Kumar, Sushil Parashar, R.S Chopra, Manoj Pahwa, Dinesh Phadnis
Cast: Virendra Saxena, Anil Kochar, Ramesh Rai
Cast: Samta Sagar, Saurabh Dubey, Kanchan Rawal, Pabitra Goregaonkar, Chand Dhar, Vijay Raj, Dhananjay Manjrekar
Cast: Achyut Potdar, Rinku Karmarkar, Tarun Shukla
Cast: Karan Oberoi, R.S. Chopra, Prithvi Zutshi, Mukhesh Jadav, Sunil Matoo, Pankaj Kalra, Falguni Parekh, Ved Thapar
Cast: Jaya Mathur, Mohan Gokhale, Satyadev Dubey, Ahmed Khan
Cast: Priya Tendulkar, Roma Navni, Dinesh Kaushik, Deepak Shirke
Cast: Kanwaljit Singh, Jharna Dave, Kamal Malik, Madhupriya
Cast: Anoop Soni, Amit Behl, Navni Parihar, Reshma Polekar
Cast: Raza Murad, Anil Nagrath, Chand Dhar
Cast: R.Madhavan, Sanjay Mishra, Aman Khanna, Achyut Poddar, Priti Chaddha
Cast: Karan Shah, Bakul Thakkar, Deepak Deulkar, Reena Kapoor, Anand Goradia, Nikhil Dewan
Cast: Navin Nischol, Abhay Bhargav, Jahangir Khan, Hari Om Parashar, Ahmed Khan
Cast: Joan David, Kavita Vaid, Gufi Paintal, Rajdev Jamdade, Bhupendra Avasthi
Cast: Jitendra Trehan, Dhananjay Manjrekar, Rasik Dave, Shalini Kapoor, Loveleen Mishra, Raj Tilak, Shrichand Makhija, Vicky Ahuja
Cast: Tej Sapru, Usha Bachani, Narendra Gupta, G.P. Singh, Anil Yadav
Cast: Vaquar Sheikh, Ashok Banthia, Ravi Jhankal,
Shivaji Satam
Cast: Puja Madan, Ashok Shinde, Mahesh Thakur, Prithvi Zutshi
Cast: Ramesh Rai, Anil Nagrath, Bobby Vats, Shahrukh Sadri
Cast: Lalit Parimoo, Rakesh Bidua, Deepraj Rana
There were no Episodes 78 and 79.
Cast: Anoop Soni, Reena Kapoor, Dinesh Phadnis, Reshma Polekar, Rajita Kochar, Raj Kiran, Abhay Bhargav,
Cast: Javed Khan, Shivani Gossain, Bharat Kapoor, Anil Nagrath, Madhupriya, Bhupendra Awasthi
Cast: Pawan Malhotra, Rakhee Malhotra, Vishwajit, Supriya Vinod, Saurabh Dubey, Santosh Kaushik
Cast: Ashwini Kalsekar, Laxmikant Berde, Sunil Rege, G.P Singh, Ashiesh Roy Basu, Raman Kapoor
Cast:Anang Desai, Kartika Rane, Vaquar Sheikh, Ali Asgar, Nikhil Dewan
Cast: Deepak Deulkar, Ramesh Rai, Prithvi Zutshi, Firdaus Dadi, Roshni Achreja, Sheetal Thakkar, Shweta Gautam, Alefia Kapadia, Madhu Malhotra, Jitendra Trehan
Cast: Utkarsha Naik Chandra Mohan, Achyut Potdar, Haider Ali, Kavita Vaid, Tarakesh Chauhan
Cast: Ravi Jhankal, Honey Chhaya, Shubhangi Gokhale, Dilip Kulkarni, Shubhangi Latkar
Cast: Sudesh Berry, Ramon Singh, Achint Kaur, Sushil Parashar, Ragesh Asthana
Cast: Shalini Kapoor, Raj Kiran, Samta Sagar, Deepak Shirke
Cast: Neha Sharad, Kanwaljit Singh, Om Puri, Chaitanya Adib, Tarakesh Chauhan, Bhupendra Awasthi
Cast: Reshma Polekar, Abhay Bhargav, Tushar Dalvi, Virendra Singh, Purvi Sanghvi, Kuldeep, Gazala Selmin
Cast: Sushma, Deepak Deulkar, Raju Kher, Mohan Gokhale, Ahmed Khan
Cast: Shivaji Satam, Madhu Malhotra, Narendra Gupta, Vaquar Sheikh, Ramesh Rai, Bhupendra Awasthi
Cast: Mona Ambegaonkar, Sushil Parashar, Ashutosh Gowariker, Shishir Sharma, Anil Yadav, Ashok Banthia, Vicky Ahuja
Cast: Karan Oberoi, Kartika Rane, Anand Goradia, Bakul Thakkar, Achint Kaur, Ritvika Dey, Ramesh Goyal, Jahangir Khan, Raj Tilak, Sanvri
Cast: Sajni Hanspal, Gautam Chaturvedi, Vijay Kashyap, Pawan Malhotra, Swati Anand, Dilip Kulkarni
Cast: Reena Kapoor, Shri Vallabh Vyas, Sanjeev Seth, Shubhangi Latkar, Vijayan Nair
Cast: Supriya Vinod, Shweta Gautam, Sulabha Deshpande, Naresh Suri, Rajendra Chawla, Haider Ali
Cast: Reshma Polekar, Vivek Shauq, Rasik Dave
Cast: A.K Hangal, Vandana Sajmani, Anil Nagrath, Jayant Kriplani, Milind Gawali
Cast: Meenakshi Gupta, Tarakesh Chauhan, Abha Parmar, Dhananjay Mandrekar, Bhupendra Awasthi
Cast: Madan Joshi, Kabir Sadanand, Md.Bashir, Kavita Vaid, Ramon Singh
Cast: Sushil Parashar, Rajesh Khera
Cast: Resham Tipnis, Kabir Sadanand
Cast: Sangeeta Ghosh, Shashi Puri, Ragesh Asthana, Sonalia Kapadia
Cast: Reshma Polekar, Mona Ambegaonkar, Lalit Parimoo, Dewen Verma, Bhupendra Awasthi, Deepraj Rana
Cast: Shivaji Satam, Reena Kapoor, Sushil Parashar, Shweta Gautam, Anil Kochar
Cast: Kavita Rathod, Sanjeev Seth, Jyotsna Karyekar, Kiran Karmarkar, Urvashi Dholakia
Cast: Akhilendra Mishra, Zubeda Khan, Asha Bachani, Shubhangi Latkar
Cast:Puja Madan
Cast: Makarand Deshpande, Supriya Karnik, Ramesh Rai
Cast: Reshma Polekar, Shashi Puri
Cast: Firdaus Dadi, Meena, Rajesh Khera
Cast: Naresh Suri, Sangeeta Ghosh, Achint Kaur, Sai Ballal
Cast: Anirudh Agarwal, Anant Jog, Aditya Srivastava, Shailendra Mishra
Cast: Akhilendra Mishra, Shri Vallabh Vyas
Cast: Md.Bashir, Reshma Polekar, Achyut Poddar, Jahangir Khan, Ashok Banthia, Kumar Hegde
Cast: Neena Kulkarni, Asha Bachani, Jyotsna Karyekar, Saanvri
Cast: Sangeeta Ghosh, Urvashi Dholakia, Dinesh Kaushik, Neelam Sagar
Cast:Adiya Srivastava, Nagesh Bhonsle
Cast: Puja Madan, Aparna Chaudhary, Deepan Vartak, Chandra Mohan, Vikram Sahu, Balwinder, Ashok Shinde
Cast: Dheeraj Sarna, Ashish Kapoor, Tushar Dalvi, Resham Tipnis, Ashwin Kaushal, Manish Garg, Haidar Ali, Anant Jog, Meghna Kothari
Cast: Rajendra Gupta, Jyoti Joshi, Ramesh Rai, Vivek Shauq, Nareh Suri, Chetan Bhagat, Priti Chadha, Shivani Gossain
Cast: Reshma Polekar, Madan Joshi, Shailendra Mishra, Milind Gawali, Shahrukh Sadri
Cast: Shweta Gautam, Sanjeev Seth, Prateeksha Lonkar, Dewen Verma, Abhay Barghava
Cast: Sajni Hanspal, Anant Jog, Gautam Chaturvedi, Shubhangi Latkar
Cast: Mansi Salvi, Firdaus Dadi, Amar Upadhyay, Pamela Mukherjee, Shraddha
Cast: Mona Ambegaonkar, Roshni Achreja, Milind Gawali, Shishir Sharma, Jahangir Khan
Cast: Akshay Anand, Akhilendra Mishra, Shubhangi Gokhle, Bhupendra Awasthi
Cast: Mita Bisht, Kabir Sadanand, Abha Dhulia, Saanvri
Cast: Seema Shetty, Bakul Thakkar, Purbi Joshi, Radha Krishna Dutt, Ahmed Khan
Cast: Deepak Shirke, Ramesh Rai, Abhiram, Surekha Sikri
Cast: Reshma Polekar, Vaquar Sheikh, Shri Vallabh Vyas, Vani Tripathi, Kajal
Cast: Anant Jog, Chaitanya, Sajni Hanspal, Amit Behl, Deven Verma
Cast: Mandira Bedi, Lalit Parimoo, Smita Bansal, Sanjay Swaraj, Ashok Bhatia, Dinesh Kaushik
Cast: Firdaus Dadi, Rajesh Khera, Seema Shetty, Ravi Gossain, Madan Joshi, Kiran Chandra, Deepak Qasir
Cast: Mansi Salvi, Rushali, Naresh Suri, Shubhangi Latkar
Cast: Salim Shah, Bakul Thakkar, Smita Bansal, Anant Jog, Pabitra Goregaonkar
Cast: Purbi Joshi, Jayant Kripalani
Cast: Karan Singh Vohra, M.Merchant, Shweta Gautam
Cast: Tushar Dalvi, Mandira Bedi, Ragesh Asthana, Supriya Vinod, Nivedita Bhattacharya, Remi Kishan, Meenakshi Verma, Tom Alter
Cast: Ragesh Asthana, Arun Bali, Sunita
Cast: Rushali, Paintal
Cast: Anil Nagrath, Manoj Verma, Reshma Polekar, Akhilendra Mishra
Cast: Madan Joshi, Grusha Kapoor, Remi Kishan, Ravi Khanvilkar
Cast: Kuljeet Randhawa, Shri Vallabh Vyas, Sanjay, Sunita Rajwar
Cast: Anant Jog, Shailendra Mishra, Surekha Sikri, Hetal Yadav, J.P
Cast: Mona Ambegaonkar, Ravindra Mankani
Cast: Nitesh Pandey, Manoj Joshi, Divya Jagdale, Nagesh Bhonsle
Cast:Abir Goswami
Cast: Sanghvi Puri, Gauri Dixit, Rushali, Ekta Sharma, Rakesh Paul, Manav Kaul, Akshay Singh, Pradeep Shukla
Cast: Varsha Usgaonkar, Nawab Shah, Md.Bashir, Reshma Polekar, Aparna Chaudhary
Cast: Tanaaz Kurrim, Rajita Kochar, Jayant Kripalani, Bijay Anand
Cast: Akshay Anand, Prashant Bhatt, Akshay Singh, Seema Shetty
Cast: Nivedita Bhattacharya, Roshni Achreja, Rekha Rao, Deepan Vartak
Cast: Nagesh Bhonsle, Falguni Parikh, Reshma Polekar, Milind Gawali
Cast: Annanya Khare, Karan Shah, Rajesh Khera, Remi Kishan
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.

Cast

The third season was titled as Aahat: Dahshat Ki Teesri Dastak. 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.

Cast

Pradeep Kabra as Vinod
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, Raghav and Yamini 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" which aired starting 20 September 2010. This was heavily inspired by the 1999 Hollywood horror film House On Haunted Hill. The storyline follows celebrities who lived in a 200-year-old haunted house.
The first episode of the sixth installation of the series premiered on 18 February 2015. 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.

Cast

Season 1

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 doesn't seem that impressive."
Sweta Kaushal of Hindustan Times stated, "The new episode of Aahat 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."

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."
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."

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, while Himanshu, Yogen and Kamal were nominated for the same category of the same award in 2005 and 2012, however, winning in 2011.

International broadcasting

In Pakistan, it was aired on A-Plus Entertainment.