Arjun (TV series)

Arjun, also known as Har Yug Mein Aayega Ek – Arjun, is an Indian Hindi-language action crime TV series which aired on Star Plus from 11 August 2012 through 23 February 2014 on Monday and Firday evenings. It is the fifth television series of 4 Lions Films.

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.

Arjun and Sameer were best friends since their academic days. It was Sameer who played cupid in Arjun's and Roshni’s love story by giving Roshni Arjun's home address when he was on a mission. But after Roshni's death their relationship soured. Sameer never believed in Sikandar’s existence and blamed Arjun for the latter's death as he had loved Roshni like his own younger sister and bestfriend. Though he may hate Arjun to the core but his care for the latter still remains the same.

The show deals with crimes such as human trafficking, organ trade, kidnapping murder, and honour killing. Arjun helped Riya overcome her fear of shooting due to which she earned immense respect for him and admired his way of solving every case.He After continuously belittling her and telling her to go back to the research desk as a statistical analyst, Arjun realized her true potential when she swallowed a virus to save the entire city. She declared her dedication for her duty and breathed her last. Throughout the journey of solving cases and fighting against crime, Arjun seemed softening towards Riya. He used to be least rude with her and tried to help her improve her skills and courage to shoot and handle criminals. He was seen putting himself Infront of danger to provoke Riya and make her shoot a goon.

During a college student's disappearance, the team meets Ayesha Kapoor, as Nadiya who was working undercover on a drug racket case. Getting her cover blown, the DIG assigns her to ETF as an ‘guns and ammunition expert’, and over time she forms a special bond with Sameer. ETF has some good news, where Lisa D'Cruz, a forensic expert joins the team under DIG's suggestion, where it is found that Lisa was a rival of Shree during college days, who always fought with him for the first position. She calls Shree "Specky Sen" and fights with him a lot. She became good friends with Ayesha. Under the order of the Home Minister, that the ETF does indeed solve many cases, but due to them not having enough coverage, the people are losing their trust in the police, so he assigned Sakshi, a criminal journalist, to publicise their actions. Because of her happy-go lucky attitude, she had altercations with Arjun right from the first day. She seemed to have a crush on Arjun but Arjun never let anyone break the walls of his heart after Roshni.

Sameer and Shree are transferred. Arjun loses his team, Chotu, Ayesha, Lisa and Sakshi in a bomb blast before his eyes. The entire department held Arjun responsible for the tragedy and arrested him after which he proved himself innocent. Arjun is torn between right and wrong, revenge and love, heart and mind, body and soul.

Devastated that the department failed to recognise him, Arjun resigns from the police force and works undercover along with Karan Hooda aka “Robin Hood” a garage mechanic, Simran, an actress, and Anjali, a tech-savvy kid to solve crimes in the neighbourhood.

The show ended with Sameer and Arjun reuniting and beginning the quest of finding “Sikander”.

Cast

 * Season 1


 * Shaleen Malhotra as A.C.P. Arjun Suryakant Rawte IPS
 * Navpreet Singh as D.S.P Arjun Samrao Rana IPS
 * Siddhanth Bansal as Special Agent undercover officer Anuroop Rawte Special Crime Force(SCF SENIOR COP)
 * Behzaad Khan as A.C.P. Sameer Dhamsingh Rathore IPS (ETF Chief)
 * Sana Makbul Khan as Riya Mukherjee former Statistical Analyst. (dead)
 * Siddharth Sen as Inspector Shreekant "Shree" Sen, Tech Expert. (Dead)
 * Ketan Karande as Inspector Chandrakant "Chhotu" Patil, Commando. (Dead)
 * Shital Shah as Inspector Ayesha Kapoor / Drug Peddler Nadia (undercover)
 * Ritu Chauhan as Dr.Lisa D'Cruz (Forensic Expert)
 * Mrunal Thakur as Sakshi Anand (Crime Journalist)
 * 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 Urmilla 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 Karsan Bhai Patel / Mr. Mehta (Episode 136)
 * Puneet Tejwani as Makrand (Episode 136)
 * Nandini Singh as Priyal (Episode 142)

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