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]

Zee Horror Show
Also known asAnhonee
Written byM. Salim
Screenplay byShyam Ramsay
Story byShyam Ramsay
Directed by
Theme music composer
Country of originIndia
Original languageHindi
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes364
Production
Producers
CinematographyGangu Ramsay
EditorAltaf Dohadwala
Running time22 minutes
Production companyRamsay Cine Vision Production
Original release
NetworkZee TV
Release9 August 1993 (1993-08-09) –
August 1, 2001 (2001-08-01)

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).[vague][3]

Episodes

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The Zee Horror Show

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Title Year No. Of Episodes Cast
Dastak[4] 1993 4 Pankaj Dheer, Archana Puran Singh, Shagufta Ali, Narendra Nath, Sudhir, Mac Mohan, Sameer Khakhar, Shammi Gandhi, Amarnath Mukherjee
Khauf 1993 3 Aasif Sheikh, Poonam Dasgupta, Navneet Nishan, Girija Shankar, Anil Dhawan, Mushtaq Khan, Sameer Khakhar, Rajeev Sharma
Taveez 1993 3 Vijay Arora, Prabha Sinha, Sajid Khan, Shravani Goswami, Bharat Kapoor, Ramesh Tiwari, Anirudh Agarwal, Anu Dhawan
Jeevan Mrityu 1993 4 Mayur Verma, Pallavi Joshi, Sulabha Deshpande, Tina Ghai, Sudhir, Dinesh Hingoo, Sunil Dhawan, Gulam Mohd., Shobha Pradhan
Dahshat 1993 6 Siraj Mustafa Khan, Resham Tipnis, Asha Irani, Raju Shrestha, Mayuri, Ramesh Tiwari, Anuraag, Javed, Bhushan Kumar, Sujit Kumar, Adi Irani
Saaya 1994 11 Balbinder Dhami, Prabha Sinha, Anurag, Antriksha, Praveen Hashmi, Tarakesh Chauhan, Sumeet Pathak, Shravani Goswami, Gajendra Chauhan, Sudhir, Surendra Pal, Usha Nadkarni, K. K. Raj, Brahmachari
Aafat 1994 5 Deepak Parashar, Neeraj Mehra, Jagurti, Rana Jung Bahadur, Mushtaq Khan, Firoz Irani, Mayuri, Himayat Ali, Goga Kapoor, Kishore Bhanushali
Karz 1994 4 Sulabha Deshpande, Anil Kochar, Roshan, Vijay Aidasani, Praveen Hashmi, Firoz Irani, Ramesh Tiwari, S. Madan, Ragesh Asthana, Prem Rishi, Anang Desai, Yogi Rajyogi
Madhumati 1994 6 Ashwin Kaushal, Afshan Khan, Jaya Mathur, Anuraag, Aruna Sangal, Arun Bali, Anil Nagrath, Babban, Goga Kapoor
Dhund (The Fog) 1994 6 Balbinder Dhami, Poonam Dasgupta, Mahavir Shah, Amarnath Mukherjee, Amrut Patel, Surendra Pal
Cheekh ! 1994 5 Prithvi Vazir, Preeti Chaddha, Usha Nadkarni, Himayat Ali, Surender Dutt, Sudhir Pandey
Raaz 1994 6 Javed Khan, Prajakta Kulkarni, Arun Bali, Sumeet Pathak, Asha Sharma, Kavita Vaid, Savita Bajaj, Renuka Israni, Rajendra Gupta, Shravani Goswami, Ballee Grover
Khatra 1994 5 Rohan Kapoor, Neha Garewal, Rashmi Sharma, Jeet, Rajkumar Chandan, Subbiraj Kakkar
Raat 1994 7 Javed Khan, Sree Prada, Suneel Rege, Rasik Dave, Prem Rishi, Mac Mohan, Ramesh Tiwari, Mayuri, Kavita Ved, Ballee Grover, Ved Thapar
Darr 1995 5 Tarakesh Chauhan, Renuka Israni, Jaya Mathur, Suresh Chatwal, Sudhir, Bharti, Ramesh Tiwari
Tadap 1994 4 Prithvi Vazir, Shagufta Ali, Homi Wadia, Ami Trivedi, Ratna Shetty, Deep Dhillon, Subbiraj Kakkar, Santosh Kaushik
Aatma 1995 4 Gajendra Chauhan, Baby Sahibaan, Asha Sharma, Preeti Chaddha, Rana Jung Bahadur, Anuraag, Rajkumar Chandan
Haadsa 1995 2 Ragesh Asthana, Naina, Kaushal Kapoor, Sunayna, Santosh Kaushik, Salim Kumar, Raj Kishore
Khamoshi 1995 6 Resham Tipnis, Ragesh Asthana, Malay Chakraborty, Neha Sharad, Brijgopal, Sameer Khakhar, Dev Malhotra, Sudhir Dalvi, Vijay Aidasani, Neha Garewal, Arun Bali
Gehraai 1995 7 Siraj Mustafa Khan, Harsha Mehra, Raju Shrestha, Rupa Bede, Ashwin Kaushal, Sudhir, Raj Kishore, Balli Grover, Babloo Mukherjee, Shiva Rindani, Ramesh Tiwari
Chamatkar 1995 6 Javed Khan, Tina Ghai, Ragesh Asthana, Vilas Raj, Shamsuddin, Vijay Aidasani, Mayuri, Ballee Grover
Tehkhana 1995 5 Neeraj Mehra, Ved Thapar, Rubina, Roshan, Mayuri, Sunil Dhawan, Santosh Kaushik, Suresh Chatwal, Babloo Mukherjee
Tantrik 1995 9 Ravi Sagar, Aarti, Asha Irani, Ramesh Tiwari, Annapoorna, Balee Grover, Sudhir, Ashwin Kaushal, Anirudh Agarwal
Gudiya 1995 7 Mahavir Shah, Prabha Sinha, Neelam Mehra, K. K. Raj, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Asha Sharma, Shreedhar Shetty, Suresh Chatwal, Sudhir
[5] Andhera 1995 5 Rishabh Shukla, Ibtsam Tapia, Rasik Dave, Anil Kochar, Faqira, Sheerin, Ahsan Parvez, Javed Khan, Dinesh Kaushik
Siskiyan 1995 6 Rishabh Shukla, Harsha Mehra, Sudhir, Anuraag, Sameer Khakhar, G. P. Singh, Channa Ruparel, Chitra Kopikar, Ballee Grover
Kabrastan 1995 6 Ved Thapar, Sheela Sharma, Pankaj Kalra, Arun Mathur, Anuraag, Mahavir Shah, Ballee Grover
Chandalika 1996 7 Ajinkya Deo, Dimple Shah, Afshan Khan, Anant Jog, Anil Kochhar, A. R. Agnihotri, Goga Kapoor
Be-Naqab 1996 5 Prithvi Vazir, Amita Nangia, Urmila Bhatt, Asha Irani, Himayat Ali, Prasant, Kamal Malik, Anil Kochar
Darwaza 1995 4 Neelam Mehra, Anil Dhawan, Mukhtar Khan, Rubeena Khan, Vinod Tripathi, K. K. Raj, Ballee Grover
Aag 1996 5 Ashwin Kaushal, Neena Softa, Malay Chakravorti, Usha Nadkarni, Ramesh Tiwari, Liyaqat Bari, Vijay Aidasani
Jaal 1996 6 Javed Khan, Jaya Mathur, Gajendra Chauhan, Anuraag, Suresh Chatwal, Firoz Irani, Vinod Tripathi, Arun Mathur, Ballee Grover
Mukti 5 Prithvi Vazir, Nina Softa, Rasik Dave, Arun Mathur, Suresh Chatwal, Vinod Tripathi, Ballee Grover, Sudhir, Poonam Dasgupta
Haveli 1997 5 Imran Khan, Aarti, Rakhee Malhotra, Mukhtar Khan, Vilas Raj, Usha Nadkarni, Sunil Dhawan, Faqira, Shiva Rindani, Ramesh Tiwari, Vinod Tripathi
Chehre Pe Chehra 1997 2 Javed Khan, Prithvi Vazir, Amita Nangia, Ashwin Kaushal, Ragesh Asthana, Ramesh Tiwari, Shiva Rindani, Achyut Potdar, Vinod Tripathi, Ballee Grover
Anhonee 1997 4 Javed Khan, Nishigandha Wad, Sudhir, Ravi Patwardhan, Ballee Grover, Poonam Dasgupta
Khoj 1997 3 Dharmesh Vyas, Faqira, Sunil Dhawan, Vinod Tripathi, Kamal Sagar, Ali Khan, Subbiraj Kakkar
Sannata 3 Balbinder Dhami, Prajakta Kulkarni, Kanchan Rawal, Suresh Chatwal, Himayat Ali, Arun Mathur, Ballee Grover
Aakhri Shikhar 1997 3 Arjun 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
Aaina 1997 4 Neha Sharad, Kheyali Dastidar, Bharat Kaul, Manoj Vyas, Shakil Ansari, Sudipa Bose, Mantu Das, Karuna Srivastav, Sanjeev Tiwari, Subol Ghosh, Mithu Chakrabarty, Mrs. M. Vyas
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Anhonee

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Title Year No. Of Episodes Cast
Jaal 1997 6 Nayantara Dutta, Rajesh Sharma (actor)
Mangalsutra 1997 5 Resham Tipnis, Sanjeev Seth
Ittefaq 8/1997 5 Ajinkya Deo, Varsha Usgaonkar, Raman Kapoor, Jaya Mathur, Arun Bali, Prem Rishi, Sulabha Deshpande, Goga Kapoor
Saazish 4 Deepak Deulkar, Nishigandha Wad, Adi Irani, Prashant Jaiswal, Sagar Salunkhe
Doosra Aadmi 1997 2 Pankaj Dheer, Priyanka, Sunil Dhawan, Swati Verma, Vinod Tripathi, Deep Dhillon
Abhishaap (The Curse) 1998 5 Nawab Shah, Sangeeta Ghosh, Shiva Rindani, Sagar Salunke, Ashok Sharma, Santosh Kaushik, Rajeeta Kochhar, Nivedita Bhattacharya
Hospital 1/1998 2 Dharmesh Vyas, Sejal Shah, Asha Sharma, Kavita Ved, Chitra Kopikar, Prashant Jaiswal, Vinod Tripathi, Ramesh Tiwari, Sunil Dhawan, Fatima Sheikh
Shraap 1/1998 5 Javed Khan, Sheela Sharma, Amarnath Mukherjee, Tarakesh Chauhan, Kanchan Rawal, Jeet Atal, Vinod Tripathi, Ramesh Tiwari, Rajesh Vivek
Saamri 2/1998 5 Neena Softa, Achyut Potdar, Ashwin Kaushal, Faqir Nabi, Vinod Tripathi, Arun Mathur
Pyaas 3/1998 4 Sanjeev Seth, Resham Seth, Adi Irani, Liyaqat Ali, Pramod Kapoor, Anirudh Agarwal, Damini
Musafir 1998 2 Malay Chakraborty, Usha Nadkarni, Mahesh Raj, Vijaya Aidasani, Rakhee Malhotra
Musafir 1998 3 Imran Khan, Afshan, Lalit Tiwari, Tarakesh Chauhan, Vicky Ahuja, Ashwin Kaushal, Subiraj
Deewar 1998 1 Ashwin Kaushal, Amita Nangia, Vinod Tripathi, Chitra Kopikar, Ballee Grover
Aatma 1998 5 Sudhir Mittoo, Neelam Sagar, Pankaj Berry, Shiva, Sumukhi Pendse, Ashwin Kaushal, Sunil Dhawan, Rana Jang Bahadur, Sudhir, Kalpana Iyer
Junoon 1998 3 Gajendra Chauhan, Nishigandha, Anil Nagrath, Ballee Grover, Vinod Tripathi, Aroop Pal
Guest House 6/1998 4 Eva Grover, Rubeena Khan, Shruti Ulfat, Nawab Shah, Lalit Tiwari, Rajeeta Kochhar, Anant Jog, Bharat Kapoor, Raj Devgan
Achanak 7/1998 3 Raju Kher, Deep Shikha, Vijay Aidasani, Sudhir, Sunil Dhawan, Balee Grover, Meenakshi Saini, Faquira
Daayan 1998 4 Damini, Prithvi, Ballee Grover, Goga Kapoor, Tej Sapru, Dinesh Kaushik
Woh Kaun Thi 2/1998 1 Dharmesh Vyas, Neelam Sagar, Ramesh Tiwari, Ballee Grover, Ashwin Kaushal, Sulbha Deshpande
Inteqam 4/1999 4 Dharmesh Vyas, Varsha Usgaonkar, Param Vir, Shalini Kapoor, Renuka Israni, Adi Irani, Afshan Khan, Prashant Jaiswal
Tijori 3 Sanjeev Seth, Vijaya Aidasani, Channa Ruparel, S. M. Zaheer
Woh Phir Aayegi 12/5 to 9/6/1999 5 Harsh Chaya, Usha Bachani, Rajesh Khera, S. M. Zaheer, Madan Jain, Ballee Grover
Veerana 11/1999 5 Sooraj Thapar, Neelam Sagar, Sunil Dhawan, Rubeena Khan, Noopur Aliza, Harjit Walia, Ashwin Kaushal, Deepshikha, Ballee Grover
Junoon 1999 5 Niki Aneja Walia, Akshay Anand, Anju Mahendru, Raju Kher, Nawab Shah, Eva Grover
Darr 1999 2 Prithvi, Ashwin Kaushal, Ballee Grover, Vinod Tripathi, Ramesh Tiwari, Anil Nagrath, Sulbha Deshpande
Anguthi 1999 2 Rajan Haksar, Imran Khan, Suresh Chatwal, Rituraj Singh, Ramesh Tiwari, Achyut Potdar, Arun Mathur, S. Madan, Dimple Ghosh
Cheekh 1999 3 Prithvi, Fatima Sheikh, Baby Meenakshi Saini, Vilas Raj, Ashwin Kaushal, Prashant Jaiswal, Ballee Grover
Intezaar 1999 4 Pankaj Berry, Vinod Tripathi, Sonam Malhotra, Param Vir, Rajeev Verma, Anil Nagrath, Anuraag, Kalpana Iyer Sumet Sehgal Reena Kapoor
Kismat 3 Madan Jain, Damini, Vinod Tripathi, Ballee Grover, Prithvi, Sonam Malhotra
Vapsi 1 Mahavir Shah, Brij Gopal, Vinod Tripathi, Gajendra Chauhan
Khauff 5 Madan Jain, Rubeena Khan, Shraddha Sharma, Suresh Chatwal, Aryan Vaid, Avinash Sahijwani, Rita Bhaduri, S. Madan, Ramesh Tiwari, Achyut Potdar, Sudhir Dalvi
Amaanat 1 Resham Seth, Uma Khosla, Vinod Tripathi, Jaya Mathur
Post•Mortem 4 Suraj Thapar, Durga Jasraj, Himayat Ali, Ali Khan, Sahiba, Brij Gopal, Browney, Vijay Aidasani, Deep Dhillon
Cafe 18 2 Paramvir, Eva Grover, Sharmilee, Arun Bali, Nawab Shah
Kabar THE GRAVE 5 Javed Khan, Ramesh Tiwari, Imran Khan, Rajeeta Kochhar, Neelam Sagar, Subbi Raj
Tadap 3 Jeet Upendra, Rajeeta Kochhar, Prashant Jaiswal, Rubeena Khan, Renuka Israni, Ramesh Tiwari, Santosh Kaushik, Gopal Rai
Raaz 3 Pankaj Berry, Vilas Raj, Ashwin Kaushal, Gopal Rai
Murti 3 Rajeeta Kochhar, Ramesh Tiwari, Sheela Sharma, Santosh Kaushik, Rajan Haksar, Gajendra Chauhan, Vinod Tripathi, Neelam Sagar
Telephone 5/2000 3 Waqar, Usha Bachani, Mac Mohan, Ashok Sharma, Suresh Chatwal, Santosh Kaushik, Ballee Grover, Anirudh Agarwal, Surendra Pal
The Party 2000 1 Pankaj Berry, Jaya Mathur, Ramesh Tiwari, Dinesh Kaushik, Vaishnavi, Ballee Grover
The Invitation 2000 3 Imran Khan, Shalini Kapoor, Adi Irani, Poonam Das Gupta, Sudhir, Vijay Aidasani, Anirudh Agarwal, Rajeeta Kochhar, Ashwin Kaushal, Noopur Aliza
Shraap 2000 3 Javed Khan, Sanjeev Seth, Sonia Kapoor, Malay Chakraborty, Rubeena Khan, Arun Mathur, Rajeeta Kochhar
Raat 2000 2 Prithvi, Usha Bachani, Kaushal Kapoor, Vinod Tripathi, Gajendra Chauhan
Ghar 2001 4 Eva Grover, Rituraj Singh, Karan Trivedi
Haadsa 2001 3 Niki Aneja Walia, Shaukat Baig
The Fatal Love 2001 3 Rohit Roy, Deepshikha Nagpal

Soundtrack

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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.[6][7]

Broadcast

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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.[8]

Zee Café aired Season 1 episodes in UK with English subtitles from 2 January 2012 till 22 April 2012.[9]

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.[10][11]

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.[12]

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.[13]

Zee TV decided to rerun this series during the first lockdown from 27 April 2020 but it lasted only for 5 days.[14]

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.[15]

Reception

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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.[16]

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.[17]

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References

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  1. ^ "RAMSAY INTERNATIONAL | Motherland Magazine". 9 December 2010.
  2. ^ "Ghosts, ghouls and graves: the eerie is on air, everywhere". India Today. 13 October 1997. Archived from the original on 19 September 2019.
  3. ^ Society, Team (23 January 2014). "Ramsey is back in action". Stardust.
  4. ^ ZEE HORROR SHOW STORY DASTAK FULL EPISODE - UGC, 29 May 2019, archived from the original on 12 December 2021, retrieved 29 May 2019
  5. ^ "Apna Horror Show Promo (Andhera) Friday - video dailymotion". Dailymotion. 10 April 2015.
  6. ^ "The Ramsay Brothers: Here Are A Few Of Our Favourite Things". Film Companion. 4 May 2017.
  7. ^ "how-the-ramsay-brothers-pioneered-the-use-of-song-and-dance-in-horror-films". Scroll. 7 September 2017.
  8. ^ Taveez Zee horror Show Part 1 FP Private, 29 May 2019, archived from the original on 12 December 2021, retrieved 29 May 2019
  9. ^ Baddhan, Raj (6 December 2011). "ZEE Network repositions ZEE Cafe this month". BizAsia | Media, Entertainment, Showbiz, Events and Music.
  10. ^ "Apna Horror Show - video dailymotion". Dailymotion. 21 March 2015.
  11. ^ "Apna Horror Show Promo - video dailymotion". Dailymotion. 2 April 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  12. ^ "press-pelease_dishtv-launches-thriller-active-service-on-both-platforms" (PDF). 4 October 2018. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. ^ "Airtel & Shemaroo Launched 'The Horror TV' - GADGETS & INNOVATIONS". www.gadgetsinnovations.com. 21 May 2019.
  14. ^ "Ramsay Brothers' Zee Horror Show to return amid lockdown". The Indian Express. 26 April 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  15. ^ DishTV Thriller Active | The Zee Horror Show | CH 134, 13 August 2021, retrieved 3 July 2022
  16. ^ "The merchants of nightmare". Outlook India. 24 November 1997.
  17. ^ "tulsi-ramsays-to-share-spooky-terrain-with-producer-director-ashok-surana". India Today. 10 November 1997.
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