Arjun (TV series)

Overview

This series is about a rebellious cop, Arjun Rawte who has been transferred to the Emergency Task Force (ETF), with the hope of nabbing Sikandar. Arjun, a fun-loving and caring guy who changed completely after witnessing the brutal murder of his wife in front of him. This made him start living a reclusive life. Sikandar had murdered his beloved wife, Roshni on their Anniversary night. Being drugged and beaten by the former, Arjun could do nothing rather than witness her dying before his eyes. Since then for the past two years he is on the quest of bringing justice to his wife by finding her killer who the department refused to believe existed.

The ETF team initially included ETF Chief ACP Sameer Rathod, ACP Arjun Suryakant Rawte, 2nd in command, Riya Mukherjee, a research specialist, Shreekant Sen aka Shree, the technical expert and Commando Chandrakant Patil, fondly called Chotu. The show deals with crimes such as human trafficking, organ trade, kidnapping murder, and honour killing. The three juniors were scared of Arjun's anger and the rivalry of the two seniors but had immense respect for both of them.

ACP Sameer and Arjun were once best friends but now Sameer blames Arjun for Roshni's death who was a good friend of his. Both of them were at loggerheads with each other due to this incident and also their way of working since Sameer believed in teamwork and posses good leadership qualities while on the other hand, Arjun is often seen putting his life at risk to solve cases. Though he may hate Arjun, Sameer's care for him is still evident.

Throughout the journey of solving cases, Arjun was annoyed by Riya's inability to shoot and considered her incompetent for ETF. He also tried to help her overcome the fear of shooting by putting himself in danger. Due to this, Riya respect him a lot. Riya is soon martyred when she swallows xora virus to save the entire city and that's when Arjun realizes her true potential. She is posthumously awarded for her bravery.

After her death, the team continues their journey of solving cases when they are joined by new members Ayesha, former undercover police officer, Sakshi, ex-crime journalist and Liza, forensic expert who was also Shree's classmate in college. Sakshi seem to have a crush on Arjun but Arjun never let anyone break the walls of his heart after Roshni died. Ayesha and Sameer seemed to be dating each other. Soon, Sameer and Shree are transferred.

Although Arjun appeared to be tough and rude to his team, but in his heart cared for them and considered them his family. He becomes close to them and realizes their importance in his life.

In one of the organ trading cases involving a minister, the ETF team is mislead into believing that Karan, a history sheeter who used to steal trucks is involved. Chotu, Liza, Aayesha and Sakshi are killed during this case and Arjun is held responsible for this tragedy. Taking the help of Karan, he proves himself innocent. Arjun is torn between right and wrong. Realising that the department failed to support him and his team, he resigns from his position marking the end of ETF.

His journey of providing justice to the innocent continues with Karan and Simran as a private investigator, while taking the help of Anjali, an 8 year old tech savy kid.

The series end with the reunion of Arjun and Sameer as the latter gets access to Sikander's information which he shares with Arjun. He realises that truth of Sikander's existence and forgives Arjun.

Cast

;Season 1

• Shaleen Malhotra as A.C.P. Arjun Suryakant Rawte IPS, Second in command, Roshni's husband and Sameer's former best friend
• Behzaad Khan as A.C.P. Sameer Dhamsingh Rathore IPS (ETF Chief), Roshni's brother and Arjun's former best friend
• Sana Makbul as Riya Mukherjee former Statistical Analyst (deceased) [Episode 1–22]
• Siddharth Sen as Inspector Shreekant "Shree" Sen, Tech Expert
• Ketan Karande as Inspector Chandrakant "Chhotu" Patil, Commando (deceased)
• Shital Shah as Inspector Ayesha Kapoor / Drug Peddler Nadia (undercover; deceased)
• Ritu Chauhan as Dr Lisa D'Cruz (forensic expert,Shree's college friend; deceased)
• Mrunal Thakur as Sakshi Anand (crime journalist; deceased)
• Sameksha as Roshni Arjun Rawte (Arjun's wife; deceased)
• Bikramjeet Kanwarpal as D.I.G Dustin Coelho
• Rajesh Kumar as Pathan Lala (episode 1 & episode 12)
• Mansi Srivastava as Payal Verma (episode 5)
• Basant Bhatt as Varun (episode 6)
• Harsh Khurana as Antiques Collector (episode 13/14)
• Aashish Kaul as Home Minister Mangesh Joshi (episode 16) / Dr Hariharan (episode 119)
• Priya Ahuja Rajda as Journalist (episode 16)
• Karuna Verma as Dr Kamala (episode 18)
• Loveleen Kaur Sasan as Shweta (episode 19)
• Mita Vashisht as Sharda Devi (episode 24)
• Ankur Nayyar as Chess Grandmaster Hiten Saxena (episode 25)
• Sunayana Fozdar as Sandhya Hiten Saxena (episode 25)
• Saanvi Talwar as Neha Joseph (episode 34)
• Vinita Mahesh as Anjali Yadav (episode 34)
• Ojaswi Aroraa as Meera (episode 42)
• Mansi Sharma as Shilpa Singh (episode 49)
• Bipasha Basu as Maya (episode 61)
• Gungun Uprari as Sakshi Gupta (episode 61)
• Neetha Shetty as Latika Rai (episode 63) / Mahi (episode 121)
• Amrapali Dubey as Urmila Satija (episode 70)
• Harshad Arora as Aniket (episode 83)
• Neena Cheema as Kalyani Pratap Singh (episode 83)
• Anushka Singh as Pushpa Chhabria (episode 85)
• Raman Khatri as Dinesh Chopra (episode 85)
• Nisha Nagpal as Kiran Arvind Joshi (episode 90)
• Ekta Tiwari as Sheela Taware (episode 87)
• Shehzad Sheikh as Viren Sharma (episode 98)
• Kishwer Merchant as Dr Chhaya Sinha (episode 99)
• Vinti Idnani as Dolly Chopra (episode 103)
• Sudesh Berry as Auto-Driver S. Yadav (episode 104)
• Narayani Shastri as Senior Inspector Lata Mane (episode 106)
• Alihassan Turabi as Raghu (episode 108)
• Vikas Bhalla as Neeraj (episode 109)
• Sumeet Kaul as Criminal Antagonist (episode 111)
• Tanvi Thakkar as Smita Shastri (episode 114)
• Navin Prabhakar as a Psychopath (episode 115)
• Sanjay Swaraj as Mr Patel (episode 118)
• Vinod Kapoor as Dr Abhijeet Ghosh (episode 120)
• Samiksha Bhatnagar as ACP Preeti (Pune Police Special Branch) (episode 122)
• Daya Shankar Pandey as Taxi Driver Aslam Khan (episode 122)
• Gurdeep Kohli as Senior Inspector Meenakshi Dixit (episode 124)
• Arjun Punj as Inspector Raghu Rajput (episode 124)
• Rishika Mihani as Psychiatrist Chitra (episode 125)

;Recurring Cast [From episode 129]

• Shaleen Malhotra as ACP Arjun Suryakant Rawte
• Behzaad Khan as ACP Sameer Dhamsingh Rathore
• Rohit Purohit as Karan
• Sheena Bajaj as Simran
• Shruti Bisht as Anjali (Techie)

;Cameos

• Saanvi Talwar as Priyanka Barar (episode 130)
• Aditi Gowitrikar as Mohini (Episode 134)
• Ashwin Kaushal as Karsanbhai Patel / Mr Mehta (episode 136)
• Puneet Tejwani as Makrand (episode 136)
• Nandini Singh as Priyal (episode 142)

List of episodes

Critical reception

DNA India said that it has good action scenes, but Malhotra was "a little stiff".

References

References

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