Encounter (Indian TV series)
| ENCOUNTER | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Reality; Documentary |
| Directed by | Tabrez Khan, Maqbool Khan |
| Creative director(s) | Lalit Marathe |
| Presented by | Manoj Bajpayee |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language(s) | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 28 (as of 27 June 2014) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 43 minutes approximately |
| Production company(s) | Endemol India |
| Release | |
| Original network | Sony Entertainment Television India and Sony Entertainment Television Asia |
| Picture format |
576i (SDTV), 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | 11 April – 27 June 2014 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Encounter was an Indian crime television series, produced by Endemol India for Sony Entertainment Television and Sony Entertainment Television Asia.[1] Its central plot was based on 35 encounters in Mumbai over 36 one-hour episodes.[2] Premiered on 11 April 2014, the show aired tri-weekly on every Friday-Sunday at 9 PM IST, and was presented by Manoj Bajpayee.[3] The series was to air its last episode on 4 July 2014, but Sony TV wrapped up the series quite haphazardly on 27 June 2014, and thus to fill up the prime time slot, the channel’s tried and tested show, Crime Patrol has been brought in its place.[4]
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.[5]
Cast
- Manoj Bajpayee as Anchor
Episodic appearances
- Aditya Redij as Inspector Bhagat Dave
- Parag Tyagi as Inspector Ajay Vishwas
- Rajesh Shringarpure as Shankya
- Adaa Khan as Shankya' love interest
- Rohit Khurana as Shankya's henchman
- 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
- Prashant Narayanan as Shamsher Bhopali
- Eijaz Khan as Inspector Ali Rizvi
- Chetan Hansraj as Mangesh (Mangya) Waghmare
- Kinshuk Mahajan as Inspector Vinod More
- Kunal Bakshi as Sub Inspector Avinash Salunkhe
- Mahesh Shetty as Mahesh Murthy
- Vishal Nayak as Anand Murthy
- Manish Khanna as Babu Rhode
- Rohit Roy as Senior Inspector Milind Mandlik [6]
- Yuvraj Malhotra as Inspector Rizwan Mirza
- Murli Sharma as Katta Sridhar
- Alan Kapoor as Krishna
- Shresth Kumar as Ameya
- Bhanu Uday as Inspector Pravin Waghle
- Manish Wadhwa as Hedge
- Aarti Singh as Mandakini
- Nandish Sandhu as Inspector Sartaj Qureishi
- Saurabh Dubey as Mr.Qureishi
- Sara Khan (TV actress) as Ayesha
- Ravi Gossain as Kallan
- Vishal Karwal as Inspector Vikas Sawant
- Akshay Dogra as Ramya
- Raj Singh as Arun
- Vishal Thakker as Babu Sawant
- Prithvi Zutshi as Police Commissioner
- 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
- 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 Pravin Joshi
- Raj Arjun as Dr. Roshan Lal
- Govind Khatri as Bhau
- Manini Mishra as Inspector Meeta Gaikwad
- Mahii Vij as Aashna
- Vinay Jain as Commissioner Surya Paneshar
- Ali Hassan as Bijoy
- Ganesh Hedge as Pasha
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.[4]
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.
- ↑ "Sony TV's Encounter to launch on 11 April; Rajesh, Promod, Aditya, Parag and Adaa to feature in the first episode". Tellychakkar. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
- 1 2 "Sony TV's Encounter to air its last episode on 4 July". Tellychakkar. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
- ↑ "Encounter, The New Crime Show on Sony Tv". BollyMirror.
- ↑ "Rohit Roy, Murli Sharma back on television". The Indian Express. Retrieved 29 May 2014.