Zee Horror Show Explained

Runtime:22 minutes
Country:India
Network:Zee TV
Num Episodes:364
Language:Hindi
Num Seasons:2
Editor:Altaf Dohadwala
Alt Name:Anhonee
Screenplay:Shyam Ramsay
Story:Shyam Ramsay
Company:Ramsay Cine Vision Production
Cinematography:Gangu Ramsay

The Zee Horror Show is a weekly Indian horror-television-series, presented by Ramsay Brothers and aired on Zee TV from 1993 to 2001.[1]

The first episode was titled "Dastak", featuring Pankaj Dheer, Shagufta Ali and Archana Puran Singh, and telecast on 9 August 1993.[2] Initially it was a 24-episode deal with Subhash Chandra; the franchise would later run for 9 years).[3]

Episodes

The Zee Horror Show

TitleYearNo. Of EpisodesCast
Dastak19934Pankaj Dheer, Archana Puran Singh, Shagufta Ali, Narendra Nath, Sudhir, Mac Mohan, Sameer Khakhar, Shammi Gandhi, Amarnath Mukherjee
Khauf19933Aasif Sheikh, Poonam Dasgupta, Navneet Nishan, Girija Shankar, Anil Dhawan, Mushtaq Khan, Sameer Khakhar, Rajeev Sharma
Taveez19933Vijay Arora, Prabha Sinha, Sajid Khan, Shravani Goswami, Bharat Kapoor, Ramesh Tiwari, Anirudh Agarwal, Anu Dhawan
Jeevan Mrityu19934Mayur Verma, Pallavi Joshi, Sulabha Deshpande, Tina Ghai, Sudhir, Dinesh Hingoo, Sunil Dhawan, Gulam Mohd., Shobha Pradhan
Dahshat19936Siraj Mustafa Khan, Resham Tipnis, Asha Irani, Raju Shrestha, Mayuri, Ramesh Tiwari, Anuraag, Javed, Bhushan Kumar, Sujit Kumar, Adi Irani
Saaya199411Balbinder Dhami, Prabha Sinha, Anurag, Antriksha, Praveen Hashmi, Tarakesh Chauhan, Sumeet Pathak, Shravani Goswami, Gajendra Chauhan, Sudhir, Surendra Pal, Usha Nadkarni, K. K. Raj, Brahmachari
Aafat19945Deepak Parashar, Neeraj Mehra, Jagurti, Rana Jung Bahadur, Mushtaq Khan, Firoz Irani, Mayuri, Himayat Ali, Goga Kapoor, Kishore Bhanushali
Karz19944Sulabha Deshpande, Anil Kochar, Roshan, Vijay Aidasani, Praveen Hashmi, Firoz Irani, Ramesh Tiwari, S. Madan, Ragesh Asthana, Prem Rishi, Anang Desai, Yogi Rajyogi
Madhumati19946Ashwin Kaushal, Afshan Khan, Jaya Mathur, Anuraag, Aruna Sangal, Arun Bali, Anil Nagrath, Babban, Goga Kapoor
Dhund (The Fog)19946Balbinder Dhami, Poonam Dasgupta, Mahavir Shah, Amarnath Mukherjee, Amrut Patel, Surendra Pal
Cheekh !19945Prithvi Vazir, Preeti Chaddha, Usha Nadkarni, Himayat Ali, Surender Dutt, Sudhir Pandey
Raaz19946Javed Khan, Prajakta Kulkarni, Arun Bali, Sumeet Pathak, Asha Sharma, Kavita Vaid, Savita Bajaj, Renuka Israni, Rajendra Gupta, Shravani Goswami, Ballee Grover
Khatra19945Rohan Kapoor, Neha Garewal, Rashmi Sharma, Jeet, Rajkumar Chandan, Subbiraj Kakkar
Raat19947Javed Khan, Sree Prada, Suneel Rege, Rasik Dave, Prem Rishi, Mac Mohan, Ramesh Tiwari, Mayuri, Kavita Ved, Ballee Grover, Ved Thapar
Darr19955Tarakesh Chauhan, Renuka Israni, Jaya Mathur, Suresh Chatwal, Sudhir, Bharti, Ramesh Tiwari
Tadap19944Prithvi Vazir, Shagufta Ali, Homi Wadia, Ami Trivedi, Ratna Shetty, Deep Dhillon, Subbiraj Kakkar, Santosh Kaushik
Aatma19954Gajendra Chauhan, Baby Sahibaan, Asha Sharma, Preeti Chaddha, Rana Jung Bahadur, Anuraag, Rajkumar Chandan
Haadsa19952Ragesh Asthana, Naina, Kaushal Kapoor, Sunayna, Santosh Kaushik, Salim Kumar, Raj Kishore
Khamoshi19956Resham Tipnis, Ragesh Asthana, Malay Chakraborty, Neha Sharad, Brijgopal, Sameer Khakhar, Dev Malhotra, Sudhir Dalvi, Vijay Aidasani, Neha Garewal, Arun Bali
Gehraai19957Siraj Mustafa Khan, Harsha Mehra, Raju Shrestha, Rupa Bede, Ashwin Kaushal, Sudhir, Raj Kishore, Balli Grover, Babloo Mukherjee, Shiva Rindani, Ramesh Tiwari
Chamatkar19956Javed Khan, Tina Ghai, Ragesh Asthana, Vilas Raj, Shamsuddin, Vijay Aidasani, Mayuri, Ballee Grover
Tehkhana19955Neeraj Mehra, Ved Thapar, Rubina, Roshan, Mayuri, Sunil Dhawan, Santosh Kaushik, Suresh Chatwal, Babloo Mukherjee
Tantrik19959Ravi Sagar, Aarti, Asha Irani, Ramesh Tiwari, Annapoorna, Balee Grover, Sudhir, Ashwin Kaushal, Anirudh Agarwal
Gudiya19957Mahavir Shah, Prabha Sinha, Neelam Mehra, K. K. Raj, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Asha Sharma, Shreedhar Shetty, Suresh Chatwal, Sudhir
[4] Andhera19955Rishabh Shukla, Ibtsam Tapia, Rasik Dave, Anil Kochar, Faqira, Sheerin, Ahsan Parvez, Javed Khan, Dinesh Kaushik
Siskiyan19956Rishabh Shukla, Harsha Mehra, Sudhir, Anuraag, Sameer Khakhar, G. P. Singh, Channa Ruparel, Chitra Kopikar, Ballee Grover
Kabrastan19956Ved Thapar, Sheela Sharma, Pankaj Kalra, Arun Mathur, Anuraag, Mahavir Shah, Ballee Grover
Chandalika19967Ajinkya Deo, Dimple Shah, Afshan Khan, Anant Jog, Anil Kochhar, A. R. Agnihotri, Goga Kapoor
Be-Naqab19965Prithvi Vazir, Amita Nangia, Urmila Bhatt, Asha Irani, Himayat Ali, Prasant, Kamal Malik, Anil Kochar
Darwaza19954Neelam Mehra, Anil Dhawan, Mukhtar Khan, Rubeena Khan, Vinod Tripathi, K. K. Raj, Ballee Grover
Aag19965Ashwin Kaushal, Neena Softa, Malay Chakravorti, Usha Nadkarni, Ramesh Tiwari, Liyaqat Bari, Vijay Aidasani
Jaal19966Javed Khan, Jaya Mathur, Gajendra Chauhan, Anuraag, Suresh Chatwal, Firoz Irani, Vinod Tripathi, Arun Mathur, Ballee Grover
Mukti5Prithvi Vazir, Nina Softa, Rasik Dave, Arun Mathur, Suresh Chatwal, Vinod Tripathi, Ballee Grover, Sudhir, Poonam Dasgupta
Haveli19975Imran Khan, Aarti, Rakhee Malhotra, Mukhtar Khan, Vilas Raj, Usha Nadkarni, Sunil Dhawan, Faqira, Shiva Rindani, Ramesh Tiwari, Vinod Tripathi
Chehre Pe Chehra19972Javed Khan, Prithvi Vazir, Amita Nangia, Ashwin Kaushal, Ragesh Asthana, Ramesh Tiwari, Shiva Rindani, Achyut Potdar, Vinod Tripathi, Ballee Grover
Anhonee19974Javed Khan, Nishigandha Wad, Sudhir, Ravi Patwardhan, Ballee Grover, Poonam Dasgupta
Khoj19973Dharmesh Vyas, Faqira, Sunil Dhawan, Vinod Tripathi, Kamal Sagar, Ali Khan, Subbiraj Kakkar
Sannata3Balbinder Dhami, Prajakta Kulkarni, Kanchan Rawal, Suresh Chatwal, Himayat Ali, Arun Mathur, Ballee Grover
Aakhri Shikhar19973Arjun Chakraborty, Kushal Chakraborty, Nayantara Dutta, Sujan Mukherjee, Vaishali De, Subol Ghosh, Shishir Gupta, Jai Prakash Singh, Avdesh Jaiswal, Jayanti Bhattacharya, Chandan Sen, Nandini Chowdhury, Soma Chakraborty, Rajesh Sharma, Anurag Motha, Sudipto Ballav, Sorvoday Manchanda, Tota Roy Chowdhury, Chaitali Sinha, Ram Kishore Thakur
Aaina19974Neha Sharad, Kheyali Dastidar, Bharat Kaul, Manoj Vyas, Shakil Ansari, Sudipa Bose, Mantu Das, Karuna Srivastav, Sanjeev Tiwari, Subol Ghosh, Mithu Chakrabarty, Mrs. M. Vyas
Shart19972

Anhonee

TitleYearNo. Of EpisodesCast
Jaal19976Nayantara Dutta, Rajesh Sharma (actor)
Mangalsutra19975Resham Tipnis, Sanjeev Seth
Ittefaq8/19975Ajinkya Deo, Varsha Usgaonkar, Raman Kapoor, Jaya Mathur, Arun Bali, Prem Rishi, Sulabha Deshpande, Goga Kapoor
Saazish4Deepak Deulkar, Nishigandha Wad, Adi Irani, Prashant Jaiswal, Sagar Salunkhe
Doosra Aadmi19972Pankaj Dheer, Priyanka, Sunil Dhawan, Swati Verma, Vinod Tripathi, Deep Dhillon
Abhishaap (The Curse)19985Nawab Shah, Sangeeta Ghosh, Shiva Rindani, Sagar Salunke, Ashok Sharma, Santosh Kaushik, Rajeeta Kochhar, Nivedita Bhattacharya
Hospital1/19982Dharmesh Vyas, Sejal Shah, Asha Sharma, Kavita Ved, Chitra Kopikar, Prashant Jaiswal, Vinod Tripathi, Ramesh Tiwari, Sunil Dhawan, Fatima Sheikh
Shraap1/19985Javed Khan, Sheela Sharma, Amarnath Mukherjee, Tarakesh Chauhan, Kanchan Rawal, Jeet Atal, Vinod Tripathi, Ramesh Tiwari, Rajesh Vivek
Saamri2/19985Neena Softa, Achyut Potdar, Ashwin Kaushal, Faqir Nabi, Vinod Tripathi, Arun Mathur
Pyaas3/19984Sanjeev Seth, Resham Seth, Adi Irani, Liyaqat Ali, Pramod Kapoor, Anirudh Agarwal, Damini
Musafir19982Malay Chakraborty, Usha Nadkarni, Mahesh Raj, Vijaya Aidasani, Rakhee Malhotra
Musafir19983Imran Khan, Afshan, Lalit Tiwari, Tarakesh Chauhan, Vicky Ahuja, Ashwin Kaushal, Subiraj
Deewar19981Ashwin Kaushal, Amita Nangia, Vinod Tripathi, Chitra Kopikar, Ballee Grover
Aatma19985Sudhir Mittoo, Neelam Sagar, Pankaj Berry, Shiva, Sumukhi Pendse, Ashwin Kaushal, Sunil Dhawan, Rana Jang Bahadur, Sudhir, Kalpana Iyer
Junoon19983Gajendra Chauhan, Nishigandha, Anil Nagrath, Ballee Grover, Vinod Tripathi, Aroop Pal
Guest House6/19984Eva Grover, Rubeena Khan, Shruti Ulfat, Nawab Shah, Lalit Tiwari, Rajeeta Kochhar, Anant Jog, Bharat Kapoor, Raj Devgan
Achanak7/19983Raju Kher, Deep Shikha, Vijay Aidasani, Sudhir, Sunil Dhawan, Balee Grover, Meenakshi Saini, Faquira
Daayan19984Damini, Prithvi, Ballee Grover, Goga Kapoor, Tej Sapru, Dinesh Kaushik
Woh Kaun Thi2/19981Dharmesh Vyas, Neelam Sagar, Ramesh Tiwari, Ballee Grover, Ashwin Kaushal, Sulbha Deshpande
Inteqam4/19994Dharmesh Vyas, Varsha Usgaonkar, Param Vir, Shalini Kapoor, Renuka Israni, Adi Irani, Afshan Khan, Prashant Jaiswal
Tijori3Sanjeev Seth, Vijaya Aidasani, Channa Ruparel, S. M. Zaheer
Woh Phir Aayegi12/5 to 9/6/19995Harsh Chaya, Usha Bachani, Rajesh Khera, S. M. Zaheer, Madan Jain, Ballee Grover
Veerana11/19995Sooraj Thapar, Neelam Sagar, Sunil Dhawan, Rubeena Khan, Noopur Aliza, Harjit Walia, Ashwin Kaushal, Deepshikha, Ballee Grover
Junoon19995Niki Aneja Walia, Akshay Anand, Anju Mahendru, Raju Kher, Nawab Shah, Eva Grover
Darr19992Prithvi, Ashwin Kaushal, Ballee Grover, Vinod Tripathi, Ramesh Tiwari, Anil Nagrath, Sulbha Deshpande
Anguthi19992Rajan Haksar, Imran Khan, Suresh Chatwal, Rituraj Singh, Ramesh Tiwari, Achyut Potdar, Arun Mathur, S. Madan, Dimple Ghosh
Cheekh19993Prithvi, Fatima Sheikh, Baby Meenakshi Saini, Vilas Raj, Ashwin Kaushal, Prashant Jaiswal, Ballee Grover
Intezaar19994Pankaj Berry, Vinod Tripathi, Sonam Malhotra, Param Vir, Rajeev Verma, Anil Nagrath, Anuraag, Kalpana Iyer Sumet Sehgal Reena Kapoor
Kismat3Madan Jain, Damini, Vinod Tripathi, Ballee Grover, Prithvi, Sonam Malhotra
Vapsi1Mahavir Shah, Brij Gopal, Vinod Tripathi, Gajendra Chauhan
Khauff5Madan Jain, Rubeena Khan, Shraddha Sharma, Suresh Chatwal, Aryan Vaid, Avinash Sahijwani, Rita Bhaduri, S. Madan, Ramesh Tiwari, Achyut Potdar, Sudhir Dalvi
Amaanat1Resham Seth, Uma Khosla, Vinod Tripathi, Jaya Mathur
Post•Mortem4Suraj Thapar, Durga Jasraj, Himayat Ali, Ali Khan, Sahiba, Brij Gopal, Browney, Vijay Aidasani, Deep Dhillon
Cafe 182Paramvir, Eva Grover, Sharmilee, Arun Bali, Nawab Shah
Kabar THE GRAVE5Javed Khan, Ramesh Tiwari, Imran Khan, Rajeeta Kochhar, Neelam Sagar, Subbi Raj
Tadap3Jeet Upendra, Rajeeta Kochhar, Prashant Jaiswal, Rubeena Khan, Renuka Israni, Ramesh Tiwari, Santosh Kaushik, Gopal Rai
Raaz3Pankaj Berry, Vilas Raj, Ashwin Kaushal, Gopal Rai
Murti3Rajeeta Kochhar, Ramesh Tiwari, Sheela Sharma, Santosh Kaushik, Rajan Haksar, Gajendra Chauhan, Vinod Tripathi, Neelam Sagar
Telephone5/20003Waqar, Usha Bachani, Mac Mohan, Ashok Sharma, Suresh Chatwal, Santosh Kaushik, Ballee Grover, Anirudh Agarwal, Surendra Pal
The Party20001Pankaj Berry, Jaya Mathur, Ramesh Tiwari, Dinesh Kaushik, Vaishnavi, Ballee Grover
The Invitation20003Imran Khan, Shalini Kapoor, Adi Irani, Poonam Das Gupta, Sudhir, Vijay Aidasani, Anirudh Agarwal, Rajeeta Kochhar, Ashwin Kaushal, Noopur Aliza
Shraap20003Javed Khan, Sanjeev Seth, Sonia Kapoor, Malay Chakraborty, Rubeena Khan, Arun Mathur, Rajeeta Kochhar
Raat20002Prithvi, Usha Bachani, Kaushal Kapoor, Vinod Tripathi, Gajendra Chauhan
Ghar20014Eva Grover, Rituraj Singh, Karan Trivedi
Haadsa20013Niki Aneja Walia, Shaukat Baig
The Fatal Love20013Rohit Roy, Deepshikha Nagpal

Soundtrack

The opening theme was composed by Ajit Singh and Uttam Singh. The tune was earlier the background score for several movies of Ramsay Brothers with the first one being Purana Mandir (1984) which was rearranged.[5] [6]

Broadcast

Zee Cinema regularly telecasted the episodes of 1993-94 in movie format. On 9 August 1997, Taveez was telecast. Rajesh Cable recorded them and Zee Cinema had several reruns of those episodes like Khauf and Taveez under the title Chills & Thrills till 2004.

Zee Café aired Season 1 episodes in UK with English subtitles from 2 January 2012 till 22 April 2012.[7]

Zee Smile started airing Anhonee from May 2015 until the closedown of the channel.

A Pakistani channel Apna Channel started to broadcast Season 1 episodes under the title Apna Horror Show from June 2015. In October 2016 Pakistan government banned Indian shows and this show stopped airing. The show returned in August 2017 and got shut down in November 2018 again for the same reason.[8] [9]

Thriller Active Channel available only on Dish TV and Videocon D2H aired some episodes of Season 1 from 30 September 2018 to 20 October 2019.[10]

The series aired on The Horror TV available only on Airtel Digital TV showing episodes of Season 1 from 10 May 2019 to 1 November 2019.[11]

Zee TV decided to rerun this series during the first lockdown from 27 April 2020 but it lasted only for 5 days.[12]

Starting 16 August 2021 Shemaroo entertainment re-aired this series on some channels owned by it like Thriller Active, Tata Play Adbhut Kahaniyan and Rahasmay Kahaniyan in subscription basis. It ran successfully till year end.

Reception

In July 1997 a petitioner in Punjab and Haryana high court argued that horror shows promoted superstitions which was affecting the youth. He requested that shows should be aired only after midnight. Women and children were a significant part of its viewership base so at the urging of Colgate, the show's sponsor, the show's name was changed to Anhonee with the words The Zee Horror Show written below it. Soon the serial name changed to simply "Anhonee" from September 1997.[13]

Ashok Surana was made the co producer of the show along with Ramsay brothers in November 1997. His episodes were directed by Indranil Goswami and would alternate with those made by Ramsay brothers. Some episodes produced by Ashok Surana were Jaal, Aaina and Aakhri Shikar.[14]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: RAMSAY INTERNATIONAL Motherland Magazine. 2010-12-09. en-US.
  2. Web site: Ghosts, ghouls and graves: the eerie is on air, everywhere. 1997-10-13. India Today. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20190919083232/https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/story/19971013-ghosts-ghouls-and-graves-the-eerie-is-on-air-everywhere-830732-1997-10-13. 19 September 2019.
  3. Web site: Ramsey is back in action. Society. Team. 2014-01-23. Stardust.
  4. Web site: Apna Horror Show Promo (Andhera) Friday - video dailymotion. 2015-04-10. Dailymotion. en.
  5. Web site: The Ramsay Brothers: Here Are A Few Of Our Favourite Things. 2017-05-04. Film Companion. en-US.
  6. News: how-the-ramsay-brothers-pioneered-the-use-of-song-and-dance-in-horror-films. 7 September 2017. Scroll.
  7. Web site: ZEE Network repositions ZEE Cafe this month. Baddhan. Raj. 2011-12-06. BizAsia Media, Entertainment, Showbiz, Events and Music. en-GB.
  8. Web site: Apna Horror Show - video dailymotion. 2015-03-21. Dailymotion. en.
  9. Web site: Apna Horror Show Promo - video dailymotion. 2017-04-02. Dailymotion. en. 2019-07-16.
  10. 2018-10-04. press-pelease_dishtv-launches-thriller-active-service-on-both-platforms.
  11. Web site: Airtel & Shemaroo Launched 'The Horror TV' - GADGETS & INNOVATIONS. 2019-05-21. www.gadgetsinnovations.com.
  12. Web site: 2020-04-26 . Ramsay Brothers’ Zee Horror Show to return amid lockdown . 2022-07-03 . The Indian Express . en.
  13. News: The merchants of nightmare. 24 November 1997. Outlook India.
  14. Web site: tulsi-ramsays-to-share-spooky-terrain-with-producer-director-ashok-surana. 10 November 1997. India Today.