Achanak 37 Saal

Baad

Achanak - 37 Saal Baad (English: All of a sudden - after 37 years) is an Indian supernatural and
Psychological thriller television serial telecast on Sony Entertainment Television between 2002
and 2003. The centerpiece of this serial was the little known small town of Gahota, which
experienced paranormal activities after each cycle of 37 years. It was first aired on 22 March
2002.
 Achanak 37 Saal Baad

Genre Psychological thriller

Supernatural

Mystery

Created by B. P. Singh and Pradeep Uppoor Producers

Sridhar Raghavan Series writer

Mukul Abhvankar Director

Karanvir Bohra Assistant Director

Starring Rahil Azam

Faraaz Khan

Iravati Harshe

Shishir Sharma

Rajendranath Zutshi

Ravindra Mankani

Ashwini Kalsekar

Aashka Goradia

Zafar Karachiwala

Sunita Rajwar

Rahul Sood

Country of origin India

Original language Hindi

No. of episodes 197

 Production
Production companies Fireworks Production

Distributor Sony Entertainment Television

Release

Original release March 22, 2002

Plot summary

Strange things happen in Gahota every 37 years causing a strange hysteria in people and leading
them to kill others or themselves and not remembering anything once the cycle is over in a few
months. Gahota is controlled by the devil's henchman, Ajay, who has been granted the ability to
control the minds of people in Gahota by the devil himself.

Preparing for the devil's birth, Ajay removes anyone who comes in the way by murdering the
person. Eventually, the devil is born in the form of Rahul/Ajinkya. Ajay encourages the young
Rahul to recall his powers and true purpose since Rahul has grown up as a normal, kind human
being oblivious of his powers. Rahul finally transforms into Ajinkya, who promptly kills Ajay as he
is no longer needed. Later, Ajay comes back to life and joins the reincarnated others to facilitate
Ajinkya's birth, to defeat and kill Ajinkya.

Cast

Rahil Azam as Rahul/Ajinkya

Faraaz Khan as Ajay/Professor Joydeb

Iravati Harshe as Sheela

Shishir Sharma as Pratap

Rajendranath Zutshi as Dipankar Ray

Ravindra Mankani as Avinash

Ashwini Kalsekar as Malini

Aashka Goradia as Kamal

Zafar Karachiwala as Ratan

 Sunita Rajwar as Ajinkya's evil baby sitter

Akshay Anand

Nishigandha Wad

Yajuvendra Singh

Siraj Mustafa Khan

Sheetal Shah

Smriti Shetty

Iqlaq Khan

Pramatesh Mehta

List of episodes

Episode 1

Om Puri narrates the story of the small town of Gahota and its railway station. Everyday three
trains stop at Gahota and many people disembark but since the last couple of months no one is
seen boarding the trains. Gahota's bird sanctuary is host to migratory birds during winters but
not a single bird has arrived this year. A frantic Pratap (Shishir Sharma), who lives in Gahota is
trying to contact his daughter but telephone lines are not working. Pratap's daughter Sheela
(Iravati Harshe), who is an air hostess, meets her school friend Ratan (Zafar Karachiwala), at the
Mumbai airport. Pratap rushes to receive his friend Avinash (Ravindra Mankani), a police officer,
at the railway station and briefs him about strange things happening in Gahota. Some days back
a bank manager slit his wrists, a woman murdered her husband and an ex-army officer killed his
family and himself for no apparent reason. Avinash thinks that Pratap is overreacting. He
confronts local Police Inspector Vanshi who denies that any such incidents happened at all.
Avinash enquires the kin of victims and they all say that the victims are fine and alive. Avinash is
convinced that Pratap has gone crazy but Pratap insists that everyone is lying.[1]

Episode 2

Ratan asks Sheela out to dinner. Sheela accepts and books a trunk call to Gahota. Still trying to
convince Avinash, Pratap tells him that he has taken pictures of the incidents. Pratap takes
Avinash to Regent Photo Studio whose owner Balram is his friend. Balram hands over the
developed photos to Pratap but they are not the ones Pratap had handed over to him four days
back. Furious, Pratap dashes into the dark room where he is restrained and roughed up by
Avinash who is frustrated with him. Later at Pratap's home, Avinash goes through the photos
and discovers that they were taken on that day and not four days back. Avinash visits the photo
studio in a taxi and asks the driver to wait for him. Balram's assistant confesses that he
switched them as directed by Balram. A black car (Hindustan Contessa) is seen moving through
Gahota mysteriously at night with the devil's symbol. It bumps the taxi and engraves the symbol
on it. The taxi driver becomes possessed and cuts the fuel line. Avinash returns and a scuffle
ensues between him and the taxi driver. A match is thrown from inside the black car which
ignites the fuel trail. The taxi driver is seen laughing hysterically as Avinash kills him. The taxi
then blows up killing Avinash. Inspector Vanshi orders the locals to remove the evidence and
book a return ticket for Avinash from Gahota. Pratap watches all this and flees from Gahota in
his car with Inspector Vanshi pursuing him. Pratap's car runs out of fuel and he stops at a petrol
pump. He calls his daughter Sheela, informing her that he is coming to meet her in Mumbai and
cautions her not to come to Gahohta ever, even not to come for his funeral if he dies.[2]

Episode 3

Malini is returning from office at night. She stops at a red light. She starts day dreaming about a
man (Pratap), surrounded by policemen, facing a black car with headlights on, pleading to let
him go. Then, the driver of black car come out of the car and then suddenly the daydream
disappears.

Awards

Indian Telly award for Best horror programme of the year in 2003.[3]

References

1. "Achanak - 37 Saal Baad - Episode 1 - Full Episode" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpPdKMUXc5

Y) . October 28, 2012 – via YouTube.

2. "Achanak - 37 Saal Baad - Episode 2 - Full Episode" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_om0kSRZgY

A) . October 28, 2012 – via YouTube.

3. "Achanak 37 Saal Baad's timeline #Achanak37SaalBaad #history #retro #vintage #bio #digitalhistory" (htt
p://histolines.com/timeline_character.php?charname=Achanak+37+Saal+Baad) . histolines.com.
Retrieved January 23, 2017.
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