Kanoon (TV series)

Kanoon is an Indian television courtroom drama/crime series. The 111-episode Hindi series[2] had its original run from 1993 to 1996 on DD Metro.[3] It was produced by B. R. Chopra and directed by his son Ravi Chopra. The music was composed by Ravi. Make-up for the series was done by Vimal Devkar.[4] The concept of the story was given by Satish Bhatnagar, Sachin Bhowmik, Kulwant Jain and Hasan Kamal. Four seasons of the show were telecasted.[5]

Kanoon
GenreMystery
Crime
Created byB. R. Chopra
Written bySatish Bhatnagar
Sachin Bhowmik
Kulwant Jain
Hasan Kamal
Directed byB. R. Chopra
Ravi Chopra
StarringPankaj Dheer
Ananth Narayan Mahadevan
Gajendra Chauhan
Deep Dhillon
Gufi Paintal
Vinod Kapoor
Virendra Razdan
Surendra Pal
Rupa Ganguly
Navni Parihar
Deepak Parashar
Country of originIndia
Original languagesHindi
Tamil (Dubbed)
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes111
Production
ProducerB. R. Chopra
Production locationIndia
CinematographyDharam Chopra
EditorsShailendra Doke
Bhirpal Singh
Running time25 minutes (approx)[1]
Release
Original networkDD Metro
Original release1993 (1993) 
1996 (1996)

Each episode ran for approximately 25 minutes and began with a title song rendered by Mahendra Kapoor.

Summary

This TV serial by the Bollywood producer B. R. Chopra is styled after several of the movies he made and named after the famous movie, Kanoon (1960). The protagonist is a lawyer, assisted by a secretary and an assistant. The serial features several crime cases, which run to multiple episodes each.[6]

Cast

Main

Episodewise

  • Rishabh Shukla as Mr. Mathur
  • Rupa Ganguly as Mrs. Mathur
  • Dinesh Anand as Sardesh Kumar/Khadir
  • Girja Shankar as Caretaker
  • Tanya Singh as Caretaker's daughter
  • Pushpa Verma as Caretaker's wife
  • Raza Murad as Syndicate Boss
  • Ali Khan as Damodar
  • Zaheer Rizvi as Sonny
  • Hanu Rao as Sonny's friend
  • Rahul Seth as Sonny's friend
  • Gagan Gupta as Sonny's friend
  • Gufi Paintal as Justice Raghunath
  • Manju Vyas as Mrs. Raghunath
  • Nattasha Singh as Dolly Raghunath
  • Sumeet as Bunty Raghunath
  • Sharat Saxena as Avinash / Inspector Sooraj Singh
  • Vishnu Sharma as Police Commissioner
  • Rana Jung Bahadur as Rajan
  • Deepak Parashar as Deepak Dasgupta
  • Dolly Sharma as Mina Dasgupta
  • R.S. Chopra as Gyan Dasgupta/Bharadwaj
  • Manjushree as Receptionist
  • Surendra Pal as Judge
  • Deepak Patel as Doctor Tyagi
  • Vinod Rawat as Ram Barosan
  • G.B. Singh as JK
  • Virendra Razdan as Narendra Khanna/Dharampal
  • Sanjay Mehendirata as Ajay Sharma/Dr. Jaswant
  • Navni Parihar as Ramaa Sharma
  • Tushar Dalvi as Prem Kapoor / Rajkishore
  • Anita Kulkarni as Nimmi Kapoor / Guddi
  • Deepshikha Nagpal as Maggie
  • Alisha as Rebecca
  • Anwar Fatehan as Pande
  • Kaushal Kapoor as Drunkard
  • Pramod Kapoor as Peter
  • Chandrakant Pandya as Govardandas
  • Dharmesh Tiwari as Judge
  • Amita Nagia as Mrs. Jaswant
  • Mamik Singh as Dr. Satish Khanna
  • Ram Mohan as Dr. Sampath
  • Kapil Kumar as Dr. Karan/Sundar
  • Sujata Mehta as Rani
  • Kavita Vaid as Rani’s maid
  • Prithvi as Rani’s neighbour
  • Brij Gopal as Paanwala
  • Dharam Soni as Dr. Bhattacharya
  • Jeetu Arora as Banarasilal
  • Gajendra Chouhan as Chandra Saxena
  • Phalguni Parikh as Mrs. Rashmi Saxena
  • Shagufta Ali as Suzy Decosta/Mehtab
  • Deepak Jethi as Peter (Suzy's boyfriend)/Darpan
  • Balvinder as Randhir
  • Jagruti as Natasha
  • Mangala Duggal as Bamaa
  • Shirazi as Manager Khatkar
  • Kunickaa Sadanand Lal as Gayathri
  • Bharat Kapoor as JD
  • Smita Siddharth as Miss Rita/JD's Secretary
  • Jagdish Raj as Judge
  • Raju Shrivastav as Car broker
  • Deepak Patil as Virendar
  • Mulraj Rajda as Giridharilal Khanna
  • Manjeet Kullar as Rashmi
  • Jharna Dave as Mrs. Chandra Saxena
  • Vijay Saini as Shankar
  • Imtiaz Khan as JK
  • Pradeep Singh Rawat as Chandu/JK's henchman
  • Shiva Rindani as Shankar Mukherjee
  • Pankaj Berry as Narender Khanna
  • Rajesh Khera as Prem Shankar

Episodes

Episode No.Episode NameActors/ActressesCharacter PlayedPlot
1-10 Accident - Part 1-10 Rishabh Shukla
Rupa Ganguly
Mr. Mathur
Mrs. Mathur
A man who loses his memory in an accident asks lawyer Vijay Saxena for help in restoring his memory.
11-19 Aulaad - Part 1-9 Tushar Dalvi
Dharmesh Tiwari
Raj Kishore
Judge
Inspector Shakti Singh's mother asks Vijay Saxena to defend and exonerate the man who is accused of

killing her daughter.

20-28 Bekasoor - Part 1-9 Dinesh Anand
Mulraj Rajda
Sardesh Kumar
Giridharilal Khanna
Vikram Saxena narrates the incidents relating to his first case wherein a retired judge asks his help

in reopening a case so that an innocent man's life can be saved.

29-36 Beti - Part 1-8 Girja Shankar
Tanya Singh
Pushpa Verma
Raza Murad
Ali Khan
Zaheer Rizvi
Hanu Rao
Rahul Seth
Gagan Gupta
Caretaker
Caretaker's daughter
Caretaker's wife
Syndicate Boss
Damodar
Sonny
Sonny's friend
Sonny's friend
Sonny's friend
Vikram Saxena defends a tribal leader for murder of an underworld don's son in revenge for the rape of

his daughter by the don's son.

37-42 Judge Saab - Part 1-6 Gufi Paintal
Manju Vyas
Nattasha Singh
Sumeet
Sharat Saxena
Vishnu Sharma
Anita Kulkarni
Justice Raghunath
Mrs. Raghunath
Dolly Raghunath
Bunty Raghunath
Avinash
Police Commissioner
Dolly's friend
Vijay Saxena defends a judge accused of murdering a man who was sentenced to life imprisonment

by the judge himself.

43-47 Bewafa - Part 1-5 Sharat Saxena Inspector Sooraj Singh An inspector accused of murdering his wife asks Vijay Saxena for help in proving his innocence.
48-52 Blackmail - Part 1-5 Rana Jung Bahadur
Deepak Parashar
Dolly Sharma
R.S. Chopra
Manjushree
Surendra Pal
Deepak Patel
Vinod Rawat
G.B. Singh
Rajan
Deepak Dasgupta
Mina Dasgupta
Gyan Dasgupta
Receptionist
Judge
Doctor Tyagi
Ram Barosan
JK
A woman accused of killing her first husband and the woman's present husband both ask Vijay Saxena

for help in exonerating her.

53-58 Faraar - Part 1-6 Pankaj Berry Narendra Khanna Vijay Saxena defends a man accused of killing his sister.
59-68 Gunaah - Part 1-10 Sanjay Mehendirata
Navni Parihar
R.S. Chopra
Tushar Dalvi
Anita Kulkarni
Deepshika
Alisha
Anwar Fatehan
Kaushal Kapoor
Promod Kapoor
Chandrakant Pandya
Dharmesh Tiwari
Ajay Sharma
Ramaa Sharma
Bharadwaj/Ramaa's father
Prem Kapoor
Nimmi Kapoor/Guddi
Maggie
Rebecca
Pande
Drunkard
Peter
Govardandas
Judge
A man looking for a companion in the absence of his wife is accused of murder and comes to Vijay Saxena

for help.

69-74 Khamoshi - Part 1-6 Sanjay Mehendirata
Amita Nagia
Mamik Singh
Ram Mohan
Kapil Kumar
Sujata Mehta
Kavita Vaid
Dinesh Anand
Prithvi
Surendra Pal
Brij Gopal
Dharam Soni
Jeetu Arora
Gufi Paintal
Jaswant
Dr. Sathish Khanna
Dr. Sampath
Dr. Karan
Rani
Rani’s maid
Khadir
Rani’s neighbour
Judge
Paanwala
Dr. Bhattacharya
Banarasilal
Justice Raghunath
A doctor requests Vijay Saxena's help in exonerating a close friend of his.
75-87 Bhabhi - Part 1-13 Gajendra Chouhan
Phalguni Parikh
Virendra Razdan
Shagufta Ali
Deepak Jethi
Balvinder
Jagruti
Mangala Duggal
Shirazi
Bharat Kapoor
Smita Siddharth
Jagdish Raj
Raju Shrivastave
Deepak Patil
Chandra Saxena
Mrs. Rashmi Saxena
Dharampal/Rashmi's father
Suzy Decosta/Mehtab
Peter/Suzy's boyfriend
Randhir
Natasha
Bamaa/Rashmi's maid
Manager Khatkar
JD
Miss Rita/JD's Secretary
Judge
Car broker
Virendar
Vijay Saxena's brother is murdered and Vijay's sister-in-law is the prime accused in the murder.
88-95 Khudkushi - Part 1-8 Kunickaa Sadanand Lal
Deepak Jethi
Kapil Kumar
Mulraj Rajda
Dharmesh Tiwari
Imtiaz Khan
Gayathri
Darpan
Sundar
Giridharilal Khanna
Judge
JK
An ex-college mate asks Vijay Saxena to help defend her when she is accused of killing her husband.
96-111 Zindagi - Part 1-16 Mulraj Rajda
Manjit Kular
Gajendra Chouhan
Jharna Dave
Vijay Saini
Imtiaz Khan
Pradeep Singh Rawat
Dharmesh Tiwari
Giridharilal Khanna
Rashmi
Chandra Saxena
Mrs. Chandra Saxena
Shankar
JK
Chandu/JK's henchman
Judge
Vijay Saxena seeks to bring to justice the man who killed his wife.

Other crew

  • B.R. Chopra and Ravi Chopra , Directors
  • Anand Bhalla, Associate director
  • Vishal Desai, Seema Pillai, Dinesh Sharma, Ramesh Sharma and Yogesh Singh, Assistant directors
  • R.K. Sibal, Second assistant director
  • Sunil Mahajan, Chief accountant
  • Patil B.P., Accountant
  • Suresh Devadiga, Action assistant
  • Shakoor Pathan, Action director
  • Bharat, Art department
  • Raju Gawda, Laxman, Paras Naik, Ram Narayan, Narayan Palekar, Ramu, Santosh and Shanker, Art department
  • Y.L. Bagchi, Jaidev and Madhu Pandey, Art direction
  • Romaldo Fernandes, Godfrey Gonsalves, Sachin Kurhade and Arun Naik, Assistant editor
  • Chandra Kamal, Surya Kamal and Vinay Kamal, Assistant music editor
  • Raj Chopra and Ramesh Jain, Assistant producer
  • Dharam Chopra, Director of photography
  • Pratap Chowdhary, First assistant camera
  • Ashish Mukherjee, Mohan Prajapat, Bharat Sovani and Narayan Rao, Camera operator
  • A. Karim, Chief technician
  • Aniket Rangnekar,Tech advisor
  • Tony Banks, Computer graphics
  • Vandana Punjabi, Prinay Singh and Navin Suchitta, Computer graphics
  • Paulomi Bhattacharya, Costume coordinator
  • Mohan Kasardekar, Vishnu Patil and Prabhakar Pawar, Costumer
  • Shailendra Doke and Birpal Singh, Editing
  • Jumbo & Narsing, Equipment incharge
  • Vimal Devkar, Hair stylist
  • Ravi,vMusic director
  • Mahendra Kapoor, Title music
  • Ramesh Rathod, Re-recording mixer
  • Kulwant Jain, Lyrics / dialogue editor
  • Chaman Kundal, Vinayak Morajkar and Shyam Raut, Makeup artist
  • B.R. Vyas, Office coordinator
  • Kishore Malhotra, Production manager
  • Ramesh Palekar, Production assistant
  • Suresh, Production boys
  • Birju, Ramesh Joshi, Manuel and Sushil, Production design
  • Satish Bhatnagar, Sachin Bhowmik, Kulwant Jain and Hasan Kamal, Screenplay
  • Ganesh, Hiraji, Isaq, Kashinath, Kishore, Patil, Rafiq, Sanjiva and Sheku, Set decoration
  • Chandu Patil, Gurudas Patil, Pravin Patil, Shafiq, Sunil Vengurlekar and Swapnil Vengurlekar, Sound assistant
  • Arbind Sinha, Stills
  • Mohan Kudu, Stills assistant
  • Suresh Devadiga, Stunt assistant
  • Anil, Dutta, Purushottam, Sachin, Somanth, Sunil and Yuvraj, Video unit

See also

References

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