Karma (2004 TV series)

Karma
Genre	Superhero action drama
Created by	Ekta Kapoor
Written by	Subodh Chopra
Directed by	Pavan S Kaul, Santram Varma
Opening theme	"Karma" by KK
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	26
Production
Producers	Ekta Kapoor Shobha Kapoor
Cinematography	Prakash Barot
Editors	K Rajdeep and Janak Chauhan
Running time	45 minutes
Production company	Balaji Telefilms [1]
Original release
Network	StarPlus
Release	20 August 2004 (2004-08-20) – 11 February 2005 (2005-02-11)

Karma – Koi Aa Raha Hai Waqt Badalney is an Indian superhero television series written by Subodh Chopra and directed by Pavan S Kaul. ^[2] The show aired on StarPlus from 20 August 2004 to 11 February 2005. It was the first ever action-thriller show from the Balaji Telefilms. ^[3]

Karma involves the battle between good and evil as the titular superhero faces off against demonic evil. The main cast of the show is Siddharth Choudhary in the title role of Karma, Riva Bubber and Tinnu Anand. The show is based in a fictitious city named Panaki, but was shot in Mumbai and other cities in India. The series re-aired on Star Utsav and Pogo. ^{[4] [5]}

Earlier titled Kalki, it was later renamed before its premiere to Karma – Koi Aa Raha Hai Waqt Badalney. ^[6] When titled as Kalki, the pilot episode was rejected by Star Plus in early 2003, after which the series was reworked as Karma. ^{[7] [8] [9]}

Plot

Karan Kapoor is born with supernatural powers, however he is oblivious to the fact until his twenty-first birthday when his powers increase at an alarming rate. He discovers that he was the "chosen one" who was born to defeat evil forces of Markesh. Teaming up with Gayatri Ji, he decides to finish the evil.

Meanwhile, he is in senior college, he notices that his classmates were cheating in exams and he discloses the fact to the school head. After that, those students beat him till death, but he is revived by his maternal grandfather Devdutt with the power of his meditation. As Devdutt uses the seven stars to revive him, he gets filled with the power of seven stars. After that he gets superpowers. His friend Mrinal Deshmukh, whom he loved, helps her out with her assignments as helping Karan while Karan saves her from all dangers by becoming Karma. Karma wears a black armor with seven stars in the center and a cape. Karma hides his identity from the people by wearing a mask on his eyes containing seven stars which shows that his power is the power of seven stars. He also throws a star sometimes with a 'K' written on it. He fights Markesh's assassins like Gunshot, Char Sau Chalis, Tilisma, Gilgit and Sonika to protect the Panaki (The city where he resides). Karan had not got his love Mrinal and Mrinal had not loved him, so karan was searching for anyone else who will take care of his life. At last, in a face-to-face confrontation, he and Markesh find out that Markesh's mother and Karma stars were close and killing Karma will result in Markesh's mother's death too. Therefore, Karma smartly plots to separate Markesh and Markesh's mother, so as to weaken them. In fact, he makes Markesh think that his mother is dead. And with many problems in Karan's own personal life, the show abruptly ends, with Karan lastly saying that he is Karma, he should keep on doing his duty without expecting any fortune for himself. ^[4]

Cast

• Siddharth Choudhary as Karan Kapoor / Karma
• Riva Bubber as Mrinal Deshmukh
• Mohan Kapoor / Nawab Shah as Markesh
• Tinnu Anand as Devdutt (Karan's maternal grandfather)
• Sudha Chandran as Gayatri (Guru Maa)
• Gaurav Chopra as Gunshot
• Melissa Pais as Kaira
• Aisha Shah as Maya
• Amita Chandekar as Manasi Mahesh Kapoor (Karan's mother and Devdutt's daughter)
• Nasser Abdullah as Professor Mahesh Kapoor (Karan's father)
• Sikandar Kharbanda as Rocky
• Anuj Gupta as Lalit
• Deepak Jethi as Challenger
• Ketan Karande as Yaksh / Markesh's Henchman
• Vicky Ahuja as Tilisma
• Vindu Dara Singh as Culprit 440
• Rio Kapadia as Chief Executive Officer of Right News Channel
• Kaliprasad Mukherjee as Dr. Merchant
• Puneet Vashisht as Jimmy Fernandes
• Sonia Kapoor as Gayatri (Guru Maa)
• Mithilesh Chaturvedi as Joe
• Alihassan Turabi

References

1. "Balaji Telefilms Limited : Television, Motion Pictures". balajitelefilms.com. Archived from the original on 12 August 2023. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
2. "The science of sci-fi". The Indian Express.
3. "> MAM Special report > Profiling on-air promos". Indiantelevision.com. 11 September 2004. Archived from the original on 17 May 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
4. "indya.com - STAR - STAR Utsav - Karma". 14 October 2007. Archived from the original on 14 October 2007.
5. "POGO TV". 5 July 2006. Archived from the original on 5 July 2006.
6. ""It would be foolish if I switched to some other track and allowed my competitors to perform a dance of victory on an empty field": Ekta Kapoor Balaji Telefilms' creative director". Indian Television dot com. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
7. "No longer Kahani Ghar Ghar ki". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 4 October 2020. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
8. "'Kaalki' to be finally born as 'Karma' next month". Indian Television dot com. July 2003. Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
9. "Balaji ready with 9 new shows across channels". Indian Television dot com. Archived from the original on 8 August 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.

External links

• Karma at IMDb