Saturday Suspense
Saturday Suspense is an Indian television suspense thriller series aired on Zee TV, which premiered on 5 April 1997. The series ended on 1 May 1999.[1] Each episode of the series was 1 hour long, and produced by a different production company. Some of the noted producers and directors that have produced/directed Saturday Suspense stories are Shyam Ramsay, Manish Tiwari, Saket Bahl, Homi Wadia, Anant Mahadevan, Vivek Agnihotri, Mahesh Aney, Anurag Basu, Deepak Tijori, Ashutosh Gowariker, Raj Tilak, Vikram Bhatt & Ashok Shekhar.[2][3]
| Saturday Suspense | |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 109 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 52 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | Zee TV |
| Picture format | 576i |
| Original release | 5 April 1997 – 1 May 1999 |
Shinakht was directed by Vikram Bhatt which was about an amnesiac's search for his own identity.[4] It used to air on Saturdays at 9 P.M. It was replaced by another thriller show, Suspense Hour which started on 8 May 1999 and ended on 18 September 1999. It also aired at the same time i.e. on Saturdays at 9 P.M.
List of Episodes
| No. | Name | Cast |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | My Last Birthday | Akshay Anand as Arvind Khanna, Kartika Rane as Shreya, Ashwini Kalsekar as Meethi Sen, Shakti Singh as Ranjeet Khanna |
| 2 | Khamoshi | Anup Soni, Rajendra Gupta |
| 3 | Tanhaai | Deepak Tijori, Yatin Karyekar, Iravati Harshe, Shishir Sharma |
| 4 | Grusha Kapoor, Benjamin Gilani, Yatin Karyekar, Avtar Gill | |
| 5 | Natasha Sinha, Saurabh Shukla, Mahesh Thakur | |
| 6 | Sheeba Akashdeep, Ashwin Kaushal, Dipen C Vartak, Surendra Pal, Pankaj Dheer
Director: Ramsay | |
| 7 | Junoon | Abhimanyu Singh, Vicky Ahuja, Shweta Gautam |
| 8 | Ashutosh Rana, Paintal, Imran Khan, Sanjay Swaraj, | |
| 9 | Ransom | Akshay Anand, Suresh Oberoi, Vani Tripathi, Jaya Bhattacharya |
| 10 | City Never Sleeps | Aamir Bashir, Mukul Nag, Krishamkant Sinha |
| 11 | Duplicate | Sadiya Siddiqui, Sangeeta Ghosh, Sanjeev Seth, Rana Jung Bahadur, Shiva Rindani, Rohitash Gaud |
| 12 | Woh Kaun Thi? | Kay Kay Menon, Ali Asgar, Shradha Singh, Jahangir Khan, Mukesh Rawal, Rekha Rao.
Director: Anant Mahadevan |
| 13 | The Final Verdict | Rajit Kapoor, Yatin Karyekar, Abhimanyu Singh, Satyadev Dubey, Pinky Singh, Dolly Bindra, Yash Tonk, Shonali Malhotra, Ashutosh Gowariker |
| 14 | Benjamin Gilani, Shakti Singh, Rajesh Jais, Mona Ambegaonkar | |
| 15 | Lalach | Amit Behl, Neelam Sagar, Aliraza Namdar |
| 16 | The Assassin | Kay Kay Menon, Reena Kapoor, Supriya Karnik, Atul Parchure, Amrit Patel, Jahangir Khan |
| 17 | Nau Se Barah | Rushali Arora, Firdaus Dadi, Nawab Shah, Ragesh Asthana, Harsh Khurana |
| 18 | On The Run | Kay Kay Menon, Sanjay Batra |
| 19 | The Picture | Pallavi Joshi, Rakesh Thareja, Afshan Khan, Vijay Aidasani, Madan Jain |
| 20 | Zakham | Deepak Tijori, Usha Bachani, Mamik Singh, Shruti Ulfat |
| 21 | Khoj | Surendra Pal, Neelima Azeem, Sahil Chadha,
Sandhya Mridul, Anant Mahadevan. Director: Anant Mahadevan |
| 22 | 48 Ghante | Deepak Parashar, Nishigandha Wad, Poonam Narula, Vaquar Shaikh, Shishir Sharma |
| 23 | Insaaf | Madan Jain, Reena Kapoor, Bakul Thakkar, Vaidehi, Brij Gopal |
| 24 | Adhoora Abhinay | Sooraj Thapar, Vani Tripathi, Ritika Matta, Humayun.
Director: Vijay Bhope |
| 25 | Irrfan Khan, Mausmi Makhija, Shilpa Tulaskar, Anupam Shyam
Prasad, Bimal, Anupam Sinha, Anupam Shyam | |
| 26 | Double Cross | Irrfan Khan, Surbhi Zaveri Vyas, Kali Prasad Mukherjee, Ragesh Asthana.
Producer: Nikita Shah Director: Anurag Basu |
| 27 | Gumraah | Javed Khan, Neelam Sagar, Arun Bali, Tarakesh Chauhan, Lalit Tiwari
Producers: Ramsays |
| 28 | Dark Memories | Ravi Kale, Rajeev Verma, Vaidehi, Vishal Singh |
| 29 | Wajood | Mohan Kapoor, Mita Vashisht, Rajendra Gupta, Anant Jog, Usha Bachani
Producer: Achyut Vaze Director: Mahesh Aney |
| 30 | Kundali | Ashish Vidhyarthi, Priyanka, Virendra Jha, Nandita Thakhur, Seema Burman, Rajesh Pal, Mohankant, Ramakant Bhagat, Ashish Duggal, Devoo Parekh, Jyoti Venkatesh.
Producer: Nikita Shah Director: Deepak Bawaskar |
| 31 | The Tenant | Gracy Singh, Anupam Bhattacharya, Salil Ankola, Muni Jha, Chang Chaang Ho.
Director: Vivek Agnihotri |
| 32 | Shinakht | Deepak Tijori, Shruti Ulfat, Yatin Karyekar, Meenakshi Gupta, Anang Desai, Amin Haji.
Director: Vikram Bhatt |
| 33 | Nightmare | Mohan Bhandari, Krutika Desai, Sandhya Mridul, Shashi Puri |
| 34 | ||
| 35 | Harsha Mehra, Prithvi, Arun Govil, Dharmesh Vyas | |
| 36 | To Catch A Killer | Akshay Anand, Suresh Oberoi, Usha Bachani |
| 37 | Music Killer | Nivedita Bhattacharya, Rakesh Thareja, Amit Behl, Neelanjana Sharma |
| 38 | Serial Killer | Suchitra Pillai, Joy Sengupta, Atul Kumar, Navin Bawa, Sunil Jetly |
| 39 | Khauf | Manasi Joshi, Amit Behl, Mehul Buch, Abhay Bhargav, Gautam Joglekar |
| 40 | The Letter | Pavan Malhotra, Sangeeta Ghosh, Manish Choudhary |
| 41 | Chakravyuh | Eva Grover, Rio Kapadia, Atul Kumar, Bijay Anand |
| 42 | Breaking News | Kay Kay Menon, Achint Kaur, Sunil Sinha |
| 43 | Khamosh | Ali Asgar, Imran Khan, Sonia Kapoor, Sanjay Batra, Jiten Lalwani, Pankaj Kalra |
| 44 | Once more | Rajeshwari, Shakti Singh, Rajesh Khera, Anupam Bhattacharya, Rakesh Thareja,Neelam Sagar,Kinshuk Vaidya,
Director: Vivek Agnihotri |
| 45 | The only witness | Pallavi Joshi, Shekhar Suman, Prithvi Zutshi |
| 46 | Kya Main Paagal Hoon ? | Aditya Srivastava as Inspector Suraj Madhavan, Rajit Kapoor as Inspector Navroz Piloo, Sheeba Chaddha as Dr. Rati Kothari, Kitu Gidwani as Dr. Rohini Sharma |
| 47 | Murder at Apollo | Pankaj Dheer, Amit Behl,Naresh Suri, Yatin Karyekar |
| 48 | Paheli | Aditya Srivastava as Varun, Irrfan Khan as Samar, Pratima Kazmi as Saira's Landlady, Jaya Seal |
| 49 | Nishigandha Wad, Yatin Karyekar, Sumukhi Pendse | |
| 50 | Abhimanyu Singh, Amit Mistry, Aditya Lakhia, Gautam Joglekar, Divya Jagdale | |
| 51 | Raju Kher, Vijay Aidasani, Aliraza Namdar, Girish Malik, Vaidehi Amrute, Reena Wadhwa | |
| 52 | Rank 1st | Rameshwari , Neena Kulkarni, Benjamin Gilani, Joy Sengupta, Nasir Khan, Rana Jung Bahadur |
| 53 | Beqasoor | Parikshit Sahni, Tushar Dalvi, Achint Kaur, Deepraj Rana, Narendra Gupta, Susheel Parashar, |
| 54 | Blackmail Trap | Rajesh Jais, Resham Tipnis, Sanjay Batra, Shakti Singh |
| 55 | Aakhri Inteqaam | Dalip Tahil, Brij Gopal, Vani Tripathi |
| 56 | Dhoondti Nigahein | Vaquar Shaikh, Pankaj Kalra, Amrita Raichand |
| 57 | Kaun | Yatin Karyekar, Eva Grover, Hemant Choudhary, Dinesh Kaushik, Suhas Khandke |
| 58 | Gawaah | Suresh Oberoi, Akshay Anand |
| 59 | Kapat | Mrinal Kulkarni, Grusha Kapoor, Pankaj Berry, Ragesh Asthana |
| 60 | Virar To Churchgate | Ahmed Khan, Kishori Shahane, Vaquar Shaikh, Varsha Usgaonkar |
| 61 | The Switch | Anup Soni, Gautami Kapoor, Kali Prasad Mukherjee |
| 62 | Hadsa | Mohan Kapoor, Masumi, Rio Kapadia, Ajit Kelkar, Jaywant Wadkar, Shankar Sachdev |
| 63 | Silver Blaze | Reena Kapoor, Ashish Vidyarthi, |
| 64 | Forest Officer | Anup Soni, Sonia Kapoor, Rajendra Gupta, Pooja Madan, Ravi Gossain |
| 65 | The Dead Don't Steal | Rajat Kapoor, Natasha Sinha, Paritosh Sand, Sakshi Tanwar |
| 66 | Vijay Aidasani, Jharna Dave, Ashwin Kaushal, Vaishnavi Mahant, Ramesh Goyal | |
| 67 | Saboot | Kabir Sadanand, G. P. Singh, Ravi Jhankal, Prithvi Zutshi, Ankush Mohite |
| 68 | Friends | Deepshikha Nagpal, Kay Kay Menon |
| 69 | Saalgirah | Mita Vashisht, Boman Irani, Irrfan Khan |
| 70 | Nausheen Ali Sardar, Prithvi Zutshi, Manoj Joshi, Shreyas Talpade, Ankush Mohla | |
| 71 | Shakti Singh, Rajesh Khera, Ravi Gossain, Navin Bawa, Makarand Deshpande, Sunil Jaitley | |
| 72 | Vaishnavi Mahant, Ahmed Khan, Pankaj Kalra, Sanjay Batra, Harsh Khurana, Aashish Duggal | |
| 73 | Nursery Crimes | Sabyashchi Chakravarthy |
| 74 | Ashutosh Rana, Vineet Kumar, Mithilesh Chaturvedi, Anupam Shyam | |
| 75 | A Simple Plan | Amar Talwar, Gufi Paintal, Kashmira Shah, Jahangir Khan, |
| 76 | Lethal Tinsel | Anup Soni, Kuljeet Randhawa, Pavan Malhotra, Rajesh Talang |
| 77 | Sanak | Anupam Bhattacharya as Sanjay, Vaidehi Amrute as Priyanka, Raviraj as Amrish, Vineet Kumar as Gandhi, Samta Sagar as Sheela, Shiv Subramanium as Rafiq |
| 78 | Mahavir Shah, Supriya Karnik, Amar Upadhyay, Shakti Singh, Rakesh Thareja, Amar Talwar, Firdaus Mevawala | |
| 79 | Agar | Gautami Kapoor, Shilpa Tulaskar, Sandeep Mehta |
| 80 | Anup Soni, Ashutosh Rana | |
| 81 | The Patient | Mohan Kapoor, Iravati Harshe, Rajesh Khera |
| 82 | Joy Sengupta, Kali Prasad Mukherjee, Kenneth Desai | |
| 83 | Ashish Vidyarthi, G. P. Singh, Kali Prasad Mukherjee, Atul Kulkarni, Aashish Duggal | |
| 84 | Rajesh Khera, Supriya Karnik, Munisha Khatwani, Ragesh Asthana | |
| 85 | Raktarekha | Rajesh Shringarpure as Akash Singh, Aashish Kaul as Amit Saxena, Shruti Ulfat as Namita, Anang Desai as Watchman, Kritika Rane |
| 86 | Daav | Naresh Suri, Seema Kapoor, Sandeep Kulkarni, Harish Shetty, Surendra Pal |
| 87 | Keher | Sudesh Berry, Nikita Shah, Feroz Bhagat, Madhu Malhotra, Deepak Dave, Sharad Vyas, Rajul Diwan, Kumkum, Himmat Joshi |
| 88 | Shekhar Suman, Bhairavi Raichura, Aman Verma, Nasir Khan, Vishal Singh | |
| 89 | Vishwaasghat | Sudha Chandran, Atul Kulkarni, Sweta Keswani, Arup Pal |
| 90 | Gehri Chaal | Sangeeta Ghosh, Ravi Gossain, Shabnam Sayed, Jaimini Pathak, Jaya Mathur, Ajay Rohilla |
| 91 | Deepak Jethi, Ashwin Kaushal | |
| 92 | Jaal | Mrinal Kulkarni, Eva Grover, Vijay Aidasani |
| 93 | Murder By Net | Ashish Vidyarthi, Shireen Merchant, Bob Brahmbhatt, Ashok Bantia, Nitin Trivedi, Nandita Thakur, Tanya Banerjee, Jeetu Merchant, Jyoti Venkatesh |
| 94 | Blackmail | Sanjeev Seth, Bhupendra Awasthi, Anant Jog, Anil Yadav, Kaushal Kapoor |
| 95 | Haan Maine Coreena Peters Ka Khoon Kiya Hai | Nivedita Bhattacharya, Rohit Roy, Usha Bachani |
| 96 | Tom Alter, Neha Sharad, Kiran Juneja, Sachin Khedekar, Dilip Dhawan | |
| 97 | Parcel | Pallavi Joshi, Mohan Kapoor, Gautam Joglekar |
| 98 | Raj Zutshi, Shweta Kawatra, Shishir Sharma, Om Puri | |
| 99 | Apradh | Seema Kapoor, Imran Khan, Lalit Parimoo, Benjamin Gilani |
| 100 | Confession | Alok Nath, Neha Sharad, Brahmachari |
| 101 | Will Power | Sweta Keswani, Kishori Shahane, Ashwin Kaushal, Sunil Shinde, Nishikant Kamat, Aamir Bashir, Jaywant Wadkar, Nasir Abdullah |
| 102 | Shart | Irrfan Khan, Shishir Sharma, Vani Tripathi |
| 103 | Officers | Amit Behl, Bhairavi Raichura |
| 104 | Beyond Truth | Kay Kay Menon, Ashwini Kalsekar, Achint Kaur |
| 105 | Hume Sab Pata Hai | Smita Bansal, Iravati Harshe, Anupam Bhattacharya, Jayati Bhatia, Girish Malik, Rajesh Khera |
| 106 | Telegram | Shishir Sharma |
| 107 | Dhund: Part 1 | Anup Soni, Shekhar Suman, Usha Bachani, Pallavi Joshi, Deven Bhojani, Raju Kher, Suresh Chatwal |
| 108 | Dhund: Part 2 | Anup Soni, Shekhar Suman, Usha Bachani, Pallavi Joshi, Deven Bhojani, Raju Kher, Suresh Chatwal |
| 109 | The Trap | Manoj Joshi, Divya Seth, Shakti Singh, Murli Sharma |
References
- "Zee TV Weekly Schedule 1998". Rediff.com. 1998. Archived from the original on 8 May 2010.
- "Saturday Suepense completes one year". 11 December 1998. Retrieved 18 January 2009.
- Camaal (15 October 2009). "Ashok Shekhar: Welcome to my blog". Ashok Shekhar.
- "Shinakht, Saturday Suspense on Zee TV by Vikram Bhatt". India Today. 1 February 1999.