Aahat (Indian TV series)

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Aahat
Genre	Thriller Horror
Created by	B. P. Singh
Written by	Yash and Sima Shridhar Raghavan Sriram Raghavan
Directed by	B. P. Singh Santram Varma Siba Mishra Ishwar Singh Nitesh Singh Sriram Raghavan
Creative director	Chirag Shah
Composer	Raju Singh
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	558 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Chandan Rajput Rajendra B. Patil
Producers	B. P. Singh Pradeep Uppoor
Production locations	Mumbai, India
Cinematography	Neelaabh Kaul J S Mangal Madhu S Rao
Running time	42 minutes approximately
Production company	Fireworks Productions
Original release
Network	Sony Entertainment Television
Release	5 October 1995 (1995-10-05) – April 2015 (2015-04)

Aahat (English: An approaching sound) is an Indian thriller horror television anthology series created by B. P. Singh for Sony Entertainment Television. ^[1] The series premiered on 5 October 1995 on the network. 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 Nivaan Sen 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 ^[2] and ended on 4 August 2015. ^[3]

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, evil laughing, and witches and wizards. In season 5 Each story has a flashback scene of how the curse and revenge happened.

Series overview

Series	Episodes		Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
1	287		5 October 1995 (1995-10-05)	6 April 2001 (2001-04-06)
2	28		19 November 2004 (2004-11-19)	10 June 2005 (2005-06-10)
3	21		13 January 2007 (2007-01-13)	16 June 2007 (2007-06-16)
4	66		13 November 2009 (2009-11-13)	26 June 2010 (2010-06-26)
5	80		28 June 2010 (2010-06-28)	25 November 2010 (2010-11-25)
6	76		18 February 2015 (2015-02-18)	4 August 2015 (2015-08-04)

Episodes

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. 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. ^[4]

Episode number	Episode title	Cast	Air date
1	The Closed Room/Band Kamra	Rajesh Khattar, Ashutosh Rana, Utkarsha Naik, Pinky Singh, Ghanashyam Nayak	2006/09/08
2	Snake/Saap	Shrivallabh Vyas, Prateeksha Lonkar, Shashi Kiran, R.S.Chopra	2006/09/09
3	Poison/Zeher	Roshni Achreja, Bobby Khanna, Chandra Mohan, Sanjay Gandhi, Mamata Luthra, Dhananjay Manjrekar	2006/09/10
5	The Last Show/Akhri Show	Ananya Khare, Channa Ruparel, Pradeep Saxena	2006/09/11
6	Julia/Tumhari Julia	Govind Namdev, Lalit Tiwari, Ramesh Rai	2006/09/12
7	Death Sentence/Saza-E-Maut	Anang Desai, Sushil Parashar, Rekha Rao	2006/09/13
8	Terror/Darr	Madan Jain, Surekha Sikri, Dinesh Kaushik, Naresh Suri, Ghazal Khan, Rajlakshmi Solanki	2006/09/14
9	First Love/Pehla Pyar	Harsh Chhaya, Ajay Mankotia, Sunita Krishan, Ravi Patwardhan, Ajit Mehra, Dhananjay Manjrekar, Sushil Parashar	2006/09/15
10	Explosion/Visfot	Ashutosh Rana, Achyut Potdar, Dilip Kulkarni, Sanjay Gandhi, Ramdas Jadhav, Rajesh Vivek, Sayaji Shinde	2006/09/16
11	The Bet/Shart	Prashant Narayanan, Ravi Gossain, Vijay Maurya, Nissar Khan, Seema Ponkshe, R.S.Chopra, Dhananjay Manjrekar	2009/09/17
12	Unfaithful	Mona Ambegaonkar, Prateeksha Lonkar, Raja Bundela, Ajit Mehra	2006/09/18
13	Gambler/Juaari	Govind Namdev, Ketki Dave, Deepak Shirke, Bhupendra Awasthi	2006/09/19
14	Ruthless/Nirdayi	Virendra Saxena, Sunil Barve, Samta Sagar, Lata Haya, Abhay Kulkarni	2009/09/20
15	Eyewitness/Gawah	Navni Parihar, Dilip Kulkarni, Nikhil Sharma	2006/09/21
16	The Doom/Abhaggya	Ravi Jhankal, Satyadev Dubey, Ravi Khandvilkar, Uttara Baokar, Mohan Kant	2006/09/22
17	Killer Hands/Khooni Pannje	Achyut Potdar, Vijay Kashyap, Jharna Dave, Ajay Rohilla	2006/09/23
18	Where is Yashwant?/Yashwant Kaha hain?	Naresh Suri, Vijayan Nair, Yusuf Khurram, Bapi Bose, Sunil Tawde, Kavita Vaid	2006/09/24
19	Stiffness/Akkudan	Shrivallabh Vyas, Vineet Kumar, Sushil Parashar, Anil Nagrath, Pramatesh Mehta, Ghazal Khan, Roshan khan	2006/09/25
20	Red Rose/Laal Gulaab	Virendra Singh, Abhimanyu Singh, Reshma Polekar, Nissar Khan, Sandeep Kulkarni, Satyajit Sharma, Rajtilak & Second unit director Siddhaye Patel	2006/09/26
21	After His death/Iss Aadmi Ke Marne par	Anup Soni, Anil Yadav, Vijay Raaz, Seema Ponkshe, Damini	2006/09/27
22	The Wish/Ichchha	Arun Bali, Satyadev Dubey, Ragesh Asthana, Ravi Patwardhan, Anuradha Sawant, Meghna Kothari, Dhananjay Manjrekar	2006/09/28
23	The night/Raat	Chandramohan, Saavri, Prashant Bhatt, Neeta Desai, Mahavir Bhullar	2006/09/29
24	The Hijack/Apharan	Tushar Dalvi, Shreechand Makhija, Sanjay Mishra, Dr. Vilas Ujawane, Vishal Kandhari, Pinky Singh	2006/09/30
25	The Haunted/Aatma	Joan David, Bobby Khanna, Santosh Kaushik, Avinash Kharshikar, Anil Yadav	2006/10/01
26	Reflection/pratibimbh	Madan Jain, Vineet Kumar, Manoj Pahwa, Nikhil Sharma, Sushil Parashar, R.S.Chopra, Mangala Duggal, Dinesh Phadnis	2006/10/02
27	Nectar/Sanjivani	Virendra Saxena, Anil Kocchar, Ramesh Rai	2006/10/03
28	The Eye/Aankh	Chand Dhar, Dr Arun Patrath, Vijay Raj, Mohan Kant, Samta Sagar, Kanchan Rawal, Pabitra Goregaonkar, Dhananjay Manjrekar	2006/10/04
29	Time Machine	Achyut Potdar, Rinku Karmarkar, Tarun Kumar Shukla	2006/10/05
30	The Bridegroom/Dulha-Dulhan	Karan Oberoi, Ved Thapar, Phalguni Parekh, Prithvi Zutshi, R.S.Chopra, Pankaj Kabra, Himayat Ali, Mukhesh Jadav, Sunil Mattoo	2006/10/06
31	The Gamble/Daav	Mohan Gokhale, Satyadev Dubey, Ahmed Khan, Zahid Ali, Jaya Mathur, Ajit Mehra, Shailendra Sharma	2006/10/07
32	The Husband/Pati	Priya Tendulkar, Dinesh Kaushik, Deepak Shirke, Roma Navani, Sunil Tawde, Pradeep Nishith	2006/10/08
33	The Voice/Awaaz	Kanwaljit Singh, Jharna Dave, Dr Arun Patrath, Anil Verma, Devi Deshmukh, Madhupriya, Kamal Malik	2006/10/09
34	Jaal	Anup Soni, Navni Parihar, Amit Behl, Reshma Polekar, Yashpal Sharma	2006/10/10
35	Diamonds/Heerey	Raza Murad, Ravi Patwardhan, Chand Dhar, Anil Nagrath, G.P.Singh, Vishal Khandhri, Rajesh Tandon	2006/10/11
36	Inheritance/Virasat	R.Madhavan, Achyut Potdar, Sanjay Mishra, Varun Mehta, Vipul Jagota, Smita Kalpvriksh	2006/10/12
37	Woh Kaun Thi?	Karan Shah, Deepak Deulkar, Bakul Thakkar, Anand Goradia Persi Shroff, Nikhil Dewan, Reena Kapoor, Alefia Kapadia	2006/10/13
38	The Noose/Phanda	Navin Nischol, Ahmed Khan, Jahangir Khan, Bhavani Shankar, Kaushal Kapoor, Abhay Bhargav, Hari Om Parashar	2006/10/14
39	The Rain/Baarish	Gufi Paintal, Joan David, Kavita Vaid, Dr Bhupendra Avasthi, Dr Vilas Ujjwane, Ramesh Rai, Rajdev Jamdade	2006/10/15
40	Anamika	Shalini Kapoor, Shreechand Makhija, Rasik Dave, Lovleen Mishra, Anil Choudhury, Vicky Ahuja, Jitendra Trehan, Rio Kapadia, Dhananjay Manjrekar, Raaz Tilak	2006/10/16
41	Lapata	Tej Sapru, Narendra Gupta, Usha Bachani, G.P. Singh, Anil Yadav	2006/10/17
42	Hunter/Shikaari	Shivaji Satam, Ravi Jhankal, Vaquar Shaikh, Ashok Banthia, Vishal Khandhri	2006/10/18
43	The Lake/Taalaab	Mahesh Thakur, Ashok Shinde, Prithvi Zutshi, Gautam, Anand Goradia, Pooja Madan	2006/10/19
44	The 12th Man/12th Aadmi	Bobby Vats, Abbas Hirapurwala, Shahrukh Sadri, Ramesh Rai, Harjeet Walia, Anil Nagrath, Tarun Kumar Shukla, & Cricket coach Lt. shri Ramakant Achrekar	2006/10/20
45	MMM 1857	Lalit Parimoo, Deepraj Rana, Radhakrishna Dutta, Rakesh Bidua, Himani Shivpuri, Tarakesh Chauhan, Dhananjay Manjrekar, Vinod Tripathi,	2006/10/21
46	The Actress/Abhinetri		2006/10/22
47	The Mirror/Aaina	Raj Kiran, Anup Soni, Rajeeta Kochhar, Reena Kapoor, Reshhma Polekar, Abhay Bhargav, Kaushal Kapoor, Manish Garg, Dinesh Phadnis	2006/10/23
48	The Return/Wapsi	Javed Khan, Bharat Kapoor, Dr Bhupendra Avasthi, Shivani Gosain, Anil nagrath, Madhupriya, Sajid Khan	2006/10/24
49	The Morgue/Shavalay	Pavan Malhotra, Saurabh Dubey, Shailendra Sharma, Santosh Kaushik, Vishwajeet, Ramdas Jadhav, Bhavani Shankar, Supriya Vinod, Rakhi Malhotra, Sunil Mattoo	2006/10/25
50	Asli-Naqli	Laxmikant Berde, Raman Kapoor, Ashwini Kalsekar, G.P.Singh, Sunil Rege, Rakesh Hans, Ashiesh Roy, Sunil Tawde	2006/10/26
51	Yaad	Anang Desai, Vaquar Shaikh, Ali Asgar, Kartika Rane, Nikhil Dewan, Manoj Verma, Raaz Tilak	2006/10/27
52	Vaada	Firdaus Dadi, Roshni Achreja, Sheetal Thakkar, Alefia Kapadia, Shweta Gautam, Madhu Malhotra, Jitendra Trehan, Prithvi Zutshi, Ramesh Rai	2006/10/28
53	The Call/Pukaar	Achyut Potdar, Haidar Ali, Utkarsha Naik, Chandra Mohan, Kavita Vaid, Tarakesh Chauhan	2006/10/29
54	The Lemon/Nimbu	Ravi Jhankal, Dilip Kulkarni, Shubhangi Gokhale, Lata Haya, Harjeet Walia, Honey Chhaya, Subhangi latkar, Sunil Nagar	2006/10/30
55	The Tresspasser/Ajnabi	Sudesh Berry, Achint Kaur, Raymond Singh, Ragesh Asthana, Sushil Parashar, Vinod Pandey	2006/10/31
56	Hide And Seek/Ankh-Micholi	Raj Kiran, Satyadev Dubey, Deepak Shirke, Shalini Kapoor, Samta Sagar	2006/11/01
57	Jagte Raho	Om Puri, Kanwaljit Singh, Neha Sharad, Dr Bhupendra Avasthi, Tarakesh Chauhan, Chetanya Adib, Dhananajay Manjrekar	2006/11/02
58	Khilona	Tushar Dalvi, Purvi Sanghvi, Reshma Polekar, Virendra Singh, G.P.Singh, Abhay Bhargav, Dr.Vilas Ujjwane, Baby Ghazala Selmin	2006/11/03
59	The Deep/Gehraai	Mohan Gokhale, Raju Kher, Ahmed Khan, Deepak Deulkar	2006/11/04
60	Shakti	Shivaji Satam, Vaquar Shaikh, Narendra Gupta, Dr Bhupendra Avasthi, Ramesh Rai, Madhu Malhotra	2006/11/05
61	Ward No. 33	Ashutosh Gowariker, Mona Ambegaonkar, Shishir Sharma, Jignesh Joshi, Anil Chowdhury, Anil Yadav, Vicky Ahuja, Ashok Banthia, Sushil Parashar	2006/11/06
62	Jungle	Karan Oberoi, Achint Kaur, Kartika Rane, Sanvri, Bakul Thakkar, Anand Goradia, Jahangir Khan, Ramesh Goyal, Shahrukh Sadri, Ritwika Dey	2006/11/07
63	Badla	Vijay Kashyap, Pawan Malhotra, Dilip Kulkarni, Gautam Chaturvedi, Sajni Hanspal, Vishwajeet, Dhananjay Manjrekar	2006/11/08
64	Raaz	Shrivallabh Vyas, Sanjeev Seth, Reena Kapoor, Subhangi Latkar, Jeet, Sunil Tawde, Jeet Atal, Dinesh Phadnis	2006/11/09
65	Tasveer	Sulabha Deshpande, Haidar Ali, Naresh Suri, Supriya Vinod, Shweta Gautam	2006/11/10
66	The Curse/Shraap	Raj Kiran, Amarnath Mukherjee, Reshma Polekar, Dinesh Sehgal, Harish Shetty	2006/11/11
67	Jeevan Mrityu	A.K. Hangal, Shilpi Bhattacharya, Milind Gawali, Vandana Sajnani, Sunil Dhawan, Anil Nagrath	2006/11/12
68	Imagination/Kalpana	Mohan Gokhale, Meenakshi Gupta, Dr Bhupendra Awasthi, Tarakesh Chauhan, Dhananjay Manjrekar	2006/11/13
69	Waqt	Madan Jain, Kabir Sadanand, Raymond Singh, Shishir Sharma, Ahmed Khan, Kavita Vaid	2006/11/14
70	Talaash	Ravi Jhankal, Rajesh Khera, Sushil Parashar, Jahangir Khan, Jeet Atal, Dhananjay Manjrekar	2006/11/15
71	Life Guard	Kabir Sadanand, Resham Tipnis, Pramod Kapoor, Sunil Tawde	2006/11/16
72	Kirdaar	Sangeeta Ghosh, Ragesh Asthana, Sandeep Kulkarni, Vikram Sahu, Sonika Sahay	2006/11/17
73	The Incident/Ghatna	Mona Ambegaonkar, Reshma Polekar, Lalit Parimoo, Deepraj Rana, Dr. Bhupendra Avasthi, Manish Garg	2006/11/18
74	Third Eye/Teesri Ankh	Reena Kapoor, Kenny Desai, Sushil Parashar, Shweta Gautam, Bhavani Shankar, Kaushal Kapoor	2006/11/19
75	Chetavni	Sanjeev Seth, Kiran Karmarkar, Urvashi Dholakia, Kavita Rathod, Jyotsna Karyekar Rekha Rao, Neena Kulkarni	2006/11/20
76	Samay	Akhilendra Mishra, Sunil Tawde, Asha Bachani	2006/11/21
77	Humshakal	Pooja Madan, Dilip Kulkarni	2006/11/22
78	Nashaa	Makrand Deshpande, Masood Akhtar, Ramesh Rai, Supriya Karnik, Kapil Konark, Tarakesh Chauhan, Anuja Lokre, Harish Shetty, Karanvir Bohra	2006/11/23
79	Telephone	Reshma Polekar, Sandeep Kulkarni, Honey Chhaya, Kamal Adib, Manish Garg	2006/11/24
80	Sakshi	Rajesh Khera, Firdaus Dadi, Rajendra Chawla	2006/11/25
81	Scarecrow/ Putla	Achint Kaur, Sangeeta Ghosh, Naresh Suri, Anwar Fatehi, Sai Ballal	2006/11/26
82	Barrack No 18	Aditya Shrivastav, Ravi Jhankal, Anant Jog, Anirudh Agarwal, Chetan Pandit, G.P. Singh, Hari Om Parashar, Shailendra Srivastav	2006/11/27
83	Bhavishya	Akhilendra Mishra, Shrivallabh Vyas, Dr Bhupendra Avasthi, Kaushal Kapoor, Anil Nagrath	2006/11/28
84	Subah	Achyut Potdar, Ashok Banthia, Dilip Kulkarni, Ahmed Khan, Reshma Polekar, Jahangir Khan, Chetanya Adib, Kumar Hegde	2006/11/29
85	The Locked Door/Bandh Darwaza	Neena Kulkarni, Sanvri, Asha Bachani, Jyotsna Karyekar	2006/11/30
86	Avinash	Dinesh Kaushik, Manoj Pandey, Sangeeta Ghosh, Urvashi Dholakia, Neelam Sagar, Pramathesh Mehta	2006/12/01
87	Mehmaan	Aditya Shrivastav, Nagesh Bhonsle, Ashish Duggal, Dr Vilas Ujjwane, Ramesh Rai, Hansa Singh	2006/12/02
88	The Camera	Pooja Madan, Deepan Vartak, Vikram Sahu, Sunil Dhawan, Ali Khan, Chandra Mohan, Sunil Tawde	2006/12/03
89	The Accident/Durghatna	Tushar Dalvi, Haidar Ali, Ashwin Kaushal, Resham Tipnis, Hansa Singh Manish Garg, Wishwajeet, Dheeraj Sarna, Ashish Kapoor	2006/12/04
90	Amanush	Naresh Suri, Lalit Parimoo, Smita Kalpvriksh, Shivani Gosain, Chetan Pandit, Sunil Rege, Prem Lala, Ramesh Rai	2006/12/05
91	The Magic/Jadoo	Madan Jain, Milind Gawali, Reshma Polekar	2006/12/06
92	The Face/Chehra	Sanjeev Seth, Abhay Bhargav, Prateeksha Lonkar, Shweta Gautam, Nikhil Dewan, Manish Garg, Sunil Tawde	2006/12/07
93	Aag	Anant Jog, Saurabh Dubey, Subhangi Latkar, Sajni Hanspal, Gautam Chaturvedi	2006/12/08
94	The Roommate	Firdaus Dadi, Manasi Salvi, Amar Upadhyay, Pamela Mukherjee, Shraddha Arya	2006/12/09
95	Room No. 402/Kamra No. 402	Mona Ambegaonkar, Roshni Achreja, Milind Gawali, Jahangir Khan, Shishir Sharma, Chandra Mohan, Pankaj Singh Budhama	2006/12/10
96	Yesterday/Kal	Akhilendra Mishra, Akshay Anand, Shubhangi Gokhale, Hari Om Parashar, Harish Shetty	2006/12/11
97	The Woman/Woh Aurat	Kabir Sadanand, Mita Vashisht, Sanvri, Neena Kulkarni, Ahmed Khan, Ravi Patwardhan, Radhakrishna Dutta	2006/12/12
98	Gumraah	Seema Shetty, Purbi Joshi, Bakul Thakkar, Ghazala Selmin	2006/12/13
99	Anjaam	Surekha Sikri, Deepak Shirke, Jaimini Pathak, Ashish Duggal, Anuj Gupta, Ramesh Rai	2006/12/14
100	Kabzaa	Shrivallabh Vyas, Vaquar Shaikh, Reshma Polekar, Vani Tripathi, Sunil Dhawan, Sonika Sahay, Gagan Gupta	2006/12/15
101			2006/12/16
	The Talking Skull	Pawan Malhotra, Sunila Karambelkar, Vivek Mishra, Sunil Dhawan	1999
192- 193			1999
194-195	Route No. 61	Anant Jog, Chaitanya, Sajni Hanspal, Amit Behl, Dheeraj Sarna, Manish Garg	1999
196-197	The Last Reel/Aakhri reel	Mandira Bedi, Lalit Parimoo, Smita Bansal, Sanjay Swaraj, Ashok Banthia, Dinesh Kaushik	1999
198- 199	Encounter	Firdaus Dadi, Rajesh Khera, Seema Shetty, Ravi Gossain, Vishwajeet, Kiran Chandra, Deepak Qazir	1999
200-201			1999
202-203	Faces/Chehre	Manasi Salvi, Rushali, Naresh Suri, Jahangir Khan, Rekha Rao	1999
204-205	Tina	Smita Bansal, Anant Jog, Bakul Thakkar, Salim Shah	1999
206-207	Saza-E-Maut	Madan Jain, Dilip Kulkarni, Deepen Vartak, Shailendra Srivastav	1999
284-285	Nightmare Disco	Manav Kaul	2001

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 episode format was same as of the first season. This time the season failed to gain TRP ratings. ^[5]

Episode no.	Name	Date of Telecast
1	13 Miles	19 November 2004
2		26 November 2004
3	Confession
4
5	Water Demons
6
7	Confession of a Donor
8
9	Highway Inn
10
11	He Who Writes a Chain Letter Dies
12
13	Waapsi
14
15	Living With a Knife
16
17	Dulhan
18
19	The Haunted House
20
21	The Prank
22
23	Bhookh
24
25	Daheshat	20 May 2005
26		27 May 2005
27	The Mysterious Morphing	3 June 2005
28		10 June 2005

Season 3 (2007)

The third season was titled as Aahat: Dahshat Ki Teesri Dastak (English: An approaching sound: The Third Coming of Horror). 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. ^[6]

Episode no.	Name	Date of Telecast
1	Rooh	13 January 2007
2	Aaina	20 January 2007
3	Khel
4	Anniversary
5	Return Of The Ghost
6	Possession
7	Timmy
8	Documentary
9	Room No. 105
10	Puppets
11	M.M.S
12	Scarecrow
13	Shrunken Head
14	Almaari
15	Hospital
16	Vampire
17	Laseeka
18	Jeevan Mrityu
19	Hotel
20	Lizard
21	Planchette	16 June 2007

Season 4 (2009–2010)

The fourth season was titled Aahat: The All New Series. In the season, Durjan, head of Paranormal And Supernatural Activities Research who used to collect powers from the spirits for his boss sends Harsh (Chaitanya Choudhury), Raghav (Vishal Gandhi) and Yamini (Krystle D'Souza) to cope up with a new supernatural power every week with the story being split into two episodes.

Episode no.	Name	Date of Telecast
1	Khajan Mail (Crossover episode with CID Episode 592 – Faraar)	13 November 2009
2		14 November 2009
3	The Scarecrow	20 November 2009
4		21 November 2009
5	Sosia Ki Aatma	27 November 2009
6		28 November 2009
7	Bina Sar Wala Aadmi	4 December 2009
8		5 December 2009
9	Bhootiya Haveli	11 December 2009
10		12 December 2009
11	Kabristan	18 December 2009
12		19 December 2009
13	Calling 303	25 December 2009
14		26 December 2009
15	Maut Ka Khazana	1 January 2010
16		2 January 2010
17	Maut Ke Saat Phere	8 January 2010
18		9 January 2010
19	Maut Ki Roshni	15 January 2010
20		16 January 2010
21	Khooni Joker	22 January 2010
22		23 January 2010
23	Maut Ki Ghadi	29 January 2010
24		30 January 2010
25	Shaitaani Chitrakar	5 February 2010
26		6 February 2010
27	Darr (Crossover episode with CID Episode 606 – Bank Locker Ka Raaz)	12 February 2010
28		13 February 2010
29	Qatilana Daftar	19 February 2010
30		20 February 2010
31	Shaitaani Talab	26 February 2010
32		27 February 2010
33	Maut Ki Jail	5 March 2010
34		6 March 2010
35	Bhediya Aatma	12 March 2010
36		13 March 2010
37	Isse Dekhna Mana Hai	19 March 2010
38		20 March 2010
39	Khooni Haveli	26 March 2010
40		27 March 2010
41	Shaitaani Kapda	2 April 2010
42		3 April 2010
43	Rengti Chudail	9 April 2010
44		10 April 2010
45	Maut Ka Hotel	16 April 2010
46		17 April 2010
47	Atript Aatma	23 April 2010
48		24 April 2010
49	Maut Ke Akshar	30 April 2010
50		1 May 2010
51	Khoon peeney wali Aatma	7 May 2010
52		8 May 2010
53	Khaufnak Siskiyan'	14 May 2010
54		15 May 2010
55	Suno Ek Kahani Maut ki Zubaani	21 May 2010
56		22 May 2010
57	Ulti Ginti	28 May 2010
58		29 May 2010
59	Qatilana Savari	4 June 2010
60		5 June 2010
61	Shaitaani Cartoon	11 June 2010
62		12 June 2010
63	Sote Huey Aatmaon Ko Mat Jagana	18 June 2010
64		19 June 2010
65	Shaitaani Khat (Crossover episode with CID Episode 630 – Kissa Gumnaam Qatil Ka)	25 June 2010
66		26 June 2010

Season 5 (2010)

To celebrate 15 years of the series, fireworks productions created and featured a 16 - episode arc titled "Maut Ka Khel" (English: "The Game of Death") which aired starting 20 September 2010. This was heavily inspired by the 1999 Hollywood horror film House On Haunted Hill. The storyline follows celebrities (Sidharth Shukla, Roshni Chopra, Aashka Goradia, Vivan Bhatena, Gautam Rode, Ketki Dave, Tanaaz Irani, Bakhtiyaar Irani, Aryan Vaid, Bobby Darling, Karishma Tanna, Sanjeet Bedi, Megha Gupta, Pankaj Tripatri, Ishitta Arun and Shahbaz Khan (as the host) ) who joined a reality horror show in which the celebrities live in a 200-year-old haunted house but the show suddenly becomes a trap with real ghosts.

Episode no.	Name	Date of Telecast
1	Shaitaani Aaina (The Box)	28 June 2010
2		29 June 2010
3	Maut Ki Parchhai (Shadows)	30 June 2010
4		1 July 2010
5	Khauffnaak Khidmat (The Video Game)	5 July 2010
6		6 July 2010
7	Khauffnaak Mehmaan Nawazi (A Jogger's Nightmare)	7 July 2010
8		8 July 2010
9	Doosri Dunya Ki Dastak (A Missing Body In A Morgue)	12 July 2010
10		13 July 2010
11	Maut Ke Ghungroo (Saviours Ghost)	14 July 2010
12		15 July 2010
13	Jaadugar Ka Badla (A Magician's Revenge)	19 July 2010
14		20 July 2010
15	Shaitaani Pyaar (When Love Kills)	21 July 2010
16		22 July 2010
17	Shaitaani Jharna (The Haunted Waterfall)	26 July 2010
18		27 July 2010
19	Khauffnaak Nadi (The Forgotten Father)	28 July 2010
20		29 July 2010
21	Grahan Ka Khooni Saaya (An Experiment Gone Wrong)	2 August 2010
22		3 August 2010
23	Khooni Kamra (Red Room)	4 August 2010
24	Khooni Aadam Bhediya (Werewolf)	5 August 2010
25		9 August 2010

Season 6 (2015)

The first episode of the sixth installation of the series premiered on 18 February 2015. ^[2] The first episode of the series had gained a TRP rating of 2.9. But after a couple of weeks, the TRP ratings dropped, and the channel had to shut down the season on 4 August 2015. ^{[3] [7]}

Crossovers

Aahat had three crossover in season 4 with the series CID , once on 13 & 14 November 2009; second time on 12 & 13 February 2010 and third time on 25 & 26 June 2010.

Reception

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 (season 6) doesn't seem that impressive." ^[8]

Sweta Kaushal of Hindustan Times stated, "The new episode of Aahat (season 6) 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." ^[9]

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." ^[8]

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." ^[9]

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, ^[10] while Himanshu, Yogen and Kamal were nominated for the same category of the same award in 2005 and 2012, however, winning in 2011. ^[11]

References

1. "Hello darkness, my old friend..." Indian Express . 3 November 1997. Archived from the original on 2014-01-12.
2. "Sony's rebooted 'Aahat' to go on air from 18 February". Indian Television. Archived from the original on 16 February 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
3. "Aahat' to go off air in August?". The Times of India . Archived from the original on 29 October 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
4. "I have made mistakes". Indian Express. 18 December 1998. Archived from the original on 6 January 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
5. "Exit 'Idol', enter refurbished, reslotted SET". Indian Television. Archived from the original on 3 February 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2005.
6. "The all new "Aahat" on Sony Saturday 10 pm". The Hindu . Archived from the original on 6 January 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2007.
7. "Sony TV's 'Aahat' to go biweekly again". The Times of India. 15 June 2015. Archived from the original on 15 June 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
8. Vineeta Kumar (19 February 2015). "Aahat season 6: No worries, watch it with your 4 year old kid". India TV . Archived from the original on 12 June 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
9. Sweta Kaushal (19 February 2015). "Aahat is back but will it scare you?". Hindustan Times . Archived from the original on 19 April 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
10. "The Indian Television Academy Awards for 2010". Indian Television Academy. Archived from the original on 26 May 2012.
11. "The Indian Television Academy Awards for 2011". Indian Television Academy. Archived from the original on 26 May 2012.

External links

• Official website
• Aahat at IMDb