X Zone is an Indian television series aired on Zee TV from 8 June 1998 to 30 October 2000. It was the Indian version of X-Files[1] Directors like Anurag Basu, Tulsi Ramsay, Shyam Ramsay, Kushan Nandy, Vivek Agnihotri, Imtiaz Ali, Anil Sharma, Ketan Mehta directed the episodes of X Zone. It used to air every Monday at night.
| X Zone | |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 126 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Zee TV |
| Release | June 8, 1998 – October 30, 2000 |
List of episodes
edit| No. | Name | Cast | Producers | Directors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gaddaar | Deepak Tijori, Nivedita Bhattacharya, Manoj Joshi | Ashwin Dhirai, Shashikant Shah | Ricky Sandhu |
| 2-3 | Grahan | Anju Mahendru, Param Vir, Vaishnavi Mahant, Vaidehi Amrute, Narendra Gupta, Sanjay Batra, Mulraj Rajda | Alka Shamsi | Shahab Shamsi |
| 4-7 | Neha | Mohan Kapoor, Nivedita Bhattacharya, Smita Bansal, Shakti Singh, Savita Bajaj, Rakesh Thareja, Noopur as Neha | Pallavi Joshi[2] | Vivek Agnihotri |
| 8-12 | Sikander | Kumar Gaurav as Sikander, Mohan Kapoor as Rann Bahadur Thapa, Shruti Ulfat as Natasha, Rajesh Khera as The Mean Chief, Shakti Singh as Navin Bawa, Brij Bhushan Sawhney as Ravi Mishra, Asif Basra as Pammi Teddy, Candice Gracy as Master Gandhar | Pallavi Joshi | Vivek Agnihotri |
| 13-14 | Ansh | Rakhee Malhotra, Niki Aneja Walia, Naresh Suri, Achyut Potdar, Dinesh Kaushik, Mahesh Thakur, Neena Gupta, Shiva Rindani, Ragesh Asthana | ||
| 15-16 | Sunanda | Harsha Mehra, Mehul Buch, Shashi Kumar, Paresh Panchmatia, Sujata Thakkar, Apurva Achharya, Kukul Tarmastar, Tulsi Rajda, Bharat Bhatt, Mahesh Vakil, Daivi, Devarshi, Homi Wadia | Nikita Shah | Homi Wadia |
| 17 | The Locked Room | Abhimanyu Singh, Sweta Keswani, Firdaus Dadi, Kajol Chakravorty, Abhay Mane | Kiran Shroff, Kushan Nandy | Kushan Nandy |
| 18 | Dark Memories | Rajeev Verma, Vishal Singh, Vaidehi Amrute, Minal Patel, Ravi Kale, Chaitrali Chirmule, Deepak Sharma, Dilip Darbar, Shahroz Khan | Rajeev Tandon | Swapna Waghmare Joshi |
| 19-20 | Raat aur Din | Raghubir Yadav, Pavan Malhotra, Shruti Ulfat, Ashish Duggal, Ragesh Asthana, Suhas Khandke, Pramod Moutho | Alka Shamsi | Shahab Shamsi |
| 21-22 | Dead Again | Iravati Harshe as Surabhi, Kay Kay Menon as Inspector Keval Mansingh, Sujata as Sister Christene, Ankush Mohla as Theodor Marx, Vicky Ahuja | Glen Barretto, Ankush Mohla | Glen Barretto, Ankush Mohla |
| 23-24 | Dahak | Arif Zakaria, Sukanya Kulkarni, Ravi Gossain, Vaibhavi Raut, Siraj Mustafa Khan, Manmeet Gulzar | Aneesh Dev | Rajesh Ransinghe |
| 25 | Ward No. 13 | Suresh Oberoi, Anju Mahendru, Deepak Deulkar, Dinesh Kaushik, Pankaj Kalra, Yogesh | Alka Shamsi | Shahab Shamsi |
| 26-27 | Cheherey | Sachin Khedekar, Iravati Harshe, Kay Kay Menon, Manoj Joshi, Saurabh Dubey | Rajeev Mehta | Deepak Malwankar |
| 28-31 | Kashish | Navin Nischol, Meenal Patel, Rajasi Behere, Shivani Gosain, Shirin Merchant, Mohankant, Abha Parmar, Vandana Sajnani, Ritvika Dey, Ashwin Kaushal | Nikita Shah | Deepak Bawaskar |
| 32-33 | Mrityu | Bhavana Balsaver, Rituraj, Achint Kaur, Lilaver Tendulkar, Hemant Pandey, Jogi, Avinash Kharshikar, Hamid Khan, Master Akash, Master Samrat, Ashalasa Shinde, Sujata, Nirmala, P.D. Awasare, Rajinder Mehra, Karan Shah, Jaya Mathur | Karan Shah | Karan Shah |
| 34-35 | Anjaan | Aparna Tilak, Beena, Darshan Jariwala, Manish Nagpal | Ashish Jalan | Ketan Mehta |
| 36-37 | Vashikaran | Parmeet Sethi, Papia Sengupta, Reena Kapoor, Pramathesh Mehta, Suresh Gor, Khushboo | Nikita Shah | Homi Wadia |
| 38-39 | Ghungroo ! | Salim Ghouse as Krishna Amma, Mukesh Jadhav as Tara, Bunty Sharma as Chameli, Ashok Sharma as Iqbal Hakim, Laxminarayan Tripathi as Champa | Rajeev Mehta | David Atkins |
| 40-41 | Kudrat | Vishal Singh, R. Madhavan, Seema Shetty | Aneesh Dev | Rajesh Ranshinge |
| 42-43 | Talaash | Anil Dhawan, Nishigandha Wad, Dinesh Kaushik, Jaya Bhattacharya, Smita Bansal, Rushali Arora, Jaya Mathur, Kanika Shivpuri, Mehul Buch | Alka Shamsi | Shahab Shamsi |
| 44-45 | The Caves Of Rangiri | Pallavi Joshi, Manish Choudhari, Dilip Pawle | Preeti Bubna Ali, Arif Ali | Imtiaz Ali |
| 46-47 | Woh Kaun Tha | Ashutosh Rana, Papia Sengupta | Vinta Nanda | Gaurav Saxena |
| 48-49 | Ateet | Bhavna Balsavar, Mohan Kapoor, Achint Kaur, Pratima Kazmi | ||
| 50 | Baat Ek Raat Ki | Kay Kay, Mulraj Rajda, Ashok Lokhande, | ||
| 51 | Bhram ? | Sukanya Mone, Sanjay Mone, Shyama Deshpande, Candida Fernandes, Yogesh Pagare | Two's Company | Glen Barretto, Ankush Mohla |
| 52 | Abhishaap | Nandita Puri, Bhaveen Gosain, Vinod Nagpal, Alefia Aftab Kapadia | Ray C | |
| 53-54 | Asthiyaan | Shaukat Baig, Arpana Sharma, Ashok Sharma, Zafar Karachiwala, Dilip Thadekeshwar, Juhu Sinha, Gagan Gupta, Deepak Chand | Rajeev Mehta | Pavan S. Kaul |
| 55-56 | Karma | Anita Kulkarni, Lalit Tiwari, Ashok Laath, Abhay Chopra, Sagar Arya, Sanjeev Seth, Sanjay Gandhi, Chunnu Mehra, Zubeda | Vinta Nanda | Vinta Nanda, Anil Sharma |
| 57-58 | Dafan | Nitesh Pandey, Ravi Gossain, Yash Tonk, Sushma, Kartika Rane | ||
| 59 | Woh Raat | Nawab Shah, Sangeeta Ghosh, Ritu Raj, Gajendra Chauhan, Kanika Shivpuri, Rajeeta Kochhar, Vilas Raaj, Poonam Das Gupta | Tulsi Ramsay, Shayam Ramsay | Deepak Ramsay |
| 60 | Gumrah | Divya Jagdale, Sudhanshu Pandey, Meenakshi Gupta, Rupesh Thapliyal, Jaspir Thandi | Two's Company | Glen Barretto, Ankush Mohla |
| 61-62 | Caretaker | Aly Khan, Shweta Keshwani, Malvika Singh | ||
| 63-64 | Khwaab | Aparna Tilak, Varun Badola, Nakul S Vaid, Madhu Malti, Rachna Goel, Mukesh Ahuja, Mohit K Jha | Deepa Sahi | Ketan Mehta |
| 65 | Hairat | Priyanka as Meenakshi, Anup Soni as Aniket, Mansi Salvi as Kavita, Shakti Singh as Pande, Ashok Lokhande as Jatashankar, Jyotsna, Sarvendar Singh | Ricky Sinha, Harsha Sinha | Deepak Bawaskar |
| 66-67 | Whitelight | Nikki Aneja, Naveen Bawa, Tanaz Currim, Kay Kay, Kamal Jain, Master Kinshuk | Pallavi Joshi | Vivek Agnihotri |
| 68-69 | Shareer | Kanwarjit Paintal, Navni Parihar, Murali Sharma, Ritu raj | ||
| 70-71 | Rakshak | Nasir Khan, Alifia Kapadia, Sagar Arya, Mukesh Jadhav | Two's Company | Glen Barretto, Ankush Mohla |
| 72 | Mangni | Beena, Arundhati Ganorkar, Pamela Mukherjee, Rajesh Sharma | Mallika Jalan | Rabiranjan Maitra |
| 73-74 | Zidd | Zarina Wahab, Gajraj Rao, Poonam Narula, Hussain Kuwajerwala, Jaya Bhattacharya, Amitanshu Jain | Preety Bubna Ali, Arif Ali | Imtiaz Ali |
| 75-76 | Fear | Shrivallabh Vyas, Anupam Shyam, Murli Sharma, Meenakshi Gupta | ||
| 77-78 | Vishesh | Deepa Parab, Nupur Alankar, Bakul Thakkar, Joy Sengupta, Shakti Joshi, Ramesh Rai, Kali Prasad Mukherjee, Rekha Rao | ||
| 79-80 | Coma | Joy Sengupta, Kamalika Guha Thakurta | ||
| 81 | 666 | Vrajesh Hirjee, Murli Sharma, Uttara Baokar, Ashwini Kalsekar, Shivani Gosain, Shilpa Saklani, Manav Kaul | ||
| 82-83 | Planchette | Poonam Narula, Aman Verma, Shital Thakkar, Vandana Sajnani, Prithvi Zutshi, Pratima Kazmi, Amla Rai, Rani Sharma | Deepak Bhalla | Anik Ghosh |
| 84 | Saath Phere | Raman Trikha, Yatin Karyekar, Arpita Pandey, Nausheen Ali Sardar, Sai Ballal | ||
| 85-86 | Madhyam | Juhi Parmar, Sandhya Mridul, Sujata, Sagar Arya | ||
| 87-88 | Drishti | Sameer Dharmadhikari, Anita Kulkarni, Arya Rawal, Vandana Marathe, Jaswinder Gardner | ||
| 89-90 | Shraap | Kanchan, Deepraj Rana, Khyaati Khandke Keswani, Vandana Sajnani, Mehul Buch, | ||
| 91 | Wild Rose | Ravee Gupta | ||
| 92 | 12 O'Clock | |||
| 93 | Shamshaan | Ayub Khan, Vaishnavi Mahant, Manjeet Kullar, Arun Bali, Nandita Thakur | ||
| 94 | Jwala | Bhairavi Raichura, Aamir Bashir, Suhita Thatte, Joy Sengupta | ||
| 95 | A True Story | Parag Deshpande, Shreyas Talpade, Kishori Shahane | ||
| 96 | Mukti | Suchitra Pillai, Gufi Paintal, Vrajesh Hirjee, Pratima Kazmi | ||
| 97 | Ashaant | Shama Deshpande, Gufi Paintal, Lata Haya, Nayan Bhatt, Suresh Gaur, Rakesh Vyas, Shridhar Parab, Siddharth Ravrani | Nikita Shah | Homi Wadia |
| 98 | Bhavishya | Hussain Kuwajerwala, Chitrapama Bannerjee, Mouli Ganguly | ||
| 99 | Sculptor | Atul Agnihotri, Ramesh Rai, Mandeep Bhandar, Bakul Thakkar, Gayatri Jariwala | ||
| 100 | Milan | Murli Sharma, Achint Kaur, Sucheta Khanna, Abhay Mane, | ||
| 101 | 13 Days | Meenakshi Gupta, Anup Soni, Vishnu Singh | ||
| 102 | Raniya | Chitrapama Bannerjee, Shishir Sharma, Nandita Puri, Virendra Saxena, | ||
| 103 | Woh 7 Din | Shonali Malhotra, Ragesh Asthana | ||
| 104 | Ilaaka | Kashish Kaul | ||
| 105 | The Return Of Woh | Aparna Tilak, Sweta Keswani, Lilliput | ||
| 106 | Sauda | Kali Prasad Mukherjee.Kay Kay Menon, Mandeep Bhandar, Meenal Patel, Ashwini Kalsekar, Murli Sharma | ||
| 107 | Aaina | Adi Irani, Neelima Azeem, Payal Nair, Anjali Mukhi | ||
| 108 | Angela | Sudhanshu Pandey, Ravee Gupta, Mangala Kenkre | ||
| 109 | Believe It Or Not | Harsh Chhaya, Shadaab Khan, Ravi Gossain, Jaya Bhattacharya, Kitu Gidwani, Anang Desai | ||
| 110 | Gunah | Ajay Mankotia, Usha Bachani, Indira Krishnan, Shiva Rindani, Ritwika Dey, Pooja Ghai Rawal | ||
| 111 | Author | Divya Jagdale, Deepan C. Vartak Ananya Khare, Iqbal Azad, Ami Trivedi, | ||
| 112 | Janam | Sajni Hanspal, Dolly Sohi, Pramod Mouthu | ||
| 113 | Suhaag | Manoj Joshi, Vishwanath, Vaishali Thakkar, Vipra Rawal, Suhita Thatte | ||
| 114 | Apshagun | Anupam Bhattacharya, Seema Shetty, Prithvi Zutshi, Anju Mahendru, Gayatri Jariwala, Murli Sharma | ||
| 115 | Mad Man's Diary | Rajesh Khera, Mehul Buch, Sucheta Khanna, Pratima Kazmi, | ||
| 116 | Kasara Ghaat | Ravi Kishan, Prachi Shah, Meenakshi Gupta, Sahiba Khan | ||
| 117 | Bees Saal Baad | S.Madan, Purbi Joshi, Sadhana Singh | ||
| 118 | Nisachar | Ajinkya Deo, Murli Sharma | ||
| 119 | Haqeeqat | Sucheta Khanna, Poornima, Meenakshi Verma, Gunn, Raj Zutshi | ||
| 120 | Saheli | Shakti Anand as Rakesh Jindal, Kuljeet Randhawa as Karishma, Nilanjana Sharma as Pooja, Murli Sharma as Dr. Gomes | ||
| 121 | Kirdar | Achint Kaur, Irrfan Khan | Inhouse Productions | |
| 122 | 6½ | Aditya Srivastava, Murli Sharma, Anirudh Agarwal, Kali Prasad Mukherjee, Lata Sabharwal, Gayatri Jariwala | ||
| 123 | The Sweeper 🧹 | Vrajesh Hirjee, Sameer Khakkar, Suhasini Mulay, Meenakshi Verma, Candida Fernandes | ||
| 124-125 | Kabza | Salil Ankola, Durga Jasraj | ||
| 126 | Mangalsutra | Raj Zutshi, Sonia Kapoor, Uday Tikekar |
Production
editFor Woh Kaun Tha this was the first time in 10 years that a TV serial crew had gone deep into the so-called affected areas - Srinagar, Gulmarg and Pahalgam of Kashmir Valley.[3]
Talaash was the story of Kusum who hallucinates about a girl killed in her college and had recurrent nightmares.[4]
Casting
editTanaz Currim in Whitelight played the wife of a colonel who is possessed by an evil spirit.[5]
Kumar Gaurav played the role of an amnesiac in story 'Sikandar, who pieces together his past to realize he is the world's most dreaded terrorist'. The story was based on Carlos.[6]
Brijesh Hirjee played Dracula in an episode in 2001.[7]
References
edit- ^ "Re telling X files in Hindi". www.tribuneindia.com. 29 November 1998.
- ^ "Big star of small screen". www.tribuneindia.com. 4 October 1998.
- ^ "After big screen, small screen returns to Kashmir Valley". India Today.
- ^ Namrata Joshi (19 April 1999). "Go West, directed by Edward Buzzell at TNT". India Today.
- ^ "The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Television". www.tribuneindia.com.
- ^ Namrata Joshi (19 October 1999). "Kumar Gaurav back in action, to play terrorist in TV serial Sikandar". India Today.
- ^ "The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Glitz 'n' glamour". www.tribuneindia.com.