| Zee Horror Show | |
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| Also known as | Anhonee |
| Written by | M. Salim |
| Screenplay by | Shyam Ramsay |
| Story by | Shyam Ramsay |
| Directed by |
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| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 364 |
| Production | |
| Producers | |
| Cinematography | Gangu Ramsay |
| Editor | Altaf Dohadwala |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company | Ramsay Cine Vision Production |
| Original release | |
| Network | Zee TV |
| Release | 9 August 1993 – August 1, 2001 |
The Zee Horror Show is an Indian horror weekly television series presented by Ramsay Brothers and that aired on Zee TV from 1993 to 2001.[1]
The first episode was titled "Dastak" which was telecast on 9 August 1993 and featured Pankaj Dheer, Shagufta Ali and Archana Puran Singh.[2] Initially it was a 24 episode deal with Subhash Chandra which later ran for 9 years.[3]
| 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 |
| Shart | 1997 | 2 |
| 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, Faqira, 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 |
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]
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]
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]
