Encounter (Indian TV series)

Encounter is an Indian crime television series, produced by Endemol India for Sony Entertainment Television. Its central plot was based on 35 encounters in Mumbai over 35 one-hour episodes.

Plot
The series was based on reality based crimes, which was made to trace the encounters that took place in different places of India and those which were in media headlines for months and later everyone forgot.

Cast

 * Manoj Bajpayee as Anchor
 * Aditya Redij as Inspector Bhagat Dave
 * Shalmalee Desai as Mrs. Bhagat Dave
 * Parag Tyagi as Inspector Ajay Vishwas
 * Shivani Manchanda as Ragini Ajay Vishwas
 * Rajesh Shringarpure as Shankar "Shankya" Mane
 * Shabaaz Abdullah Badi as Ujjwal
 * Adaa Khan as Sonali
 * Rohit Khurana as Shaikh Ali
 * Pramod Moutho as Commissioner Lawrence Perreira
 * Mishal Raheja as Inspector Nitin Kamte
 * Megha Gupta as Dr. Preeti
 * Mazher Sayed as Sub Inspector Manish Kadam
 * Bikramjeet Kanwarpal as Assistant Police Commissioner Vikramjeet Shinde
 * Prashant Narayanan as Shamsher Bhopali
 * Avantika Hundal
 * Gopal Singh as Sikandar Bagdadi
 * Eijaz Khan as Inspector Ali Rizvi
 * Chetan Hansraj as Mangesh "Mangya" Waghmare
 * Sushmita Daan as Razia Ali Rizvi
 * Prakash Ramchandani as MLA Janak Shetty
 * Kinshuk Mahajan as Inspector Vinod More
 * Samiksha Bhatt as Malini Vinod More
 * Kunal Bakshi as Sub Inspector Avinash Salunkhe
 * Mahesh Shetty as Mahesh Murthy
 * Vishal Nayak as Anand Murthy
 * Manish Khanna as Babu Rode
 * Rohit Roy as Senior Inspector Milind Mandlik
 * Yuvraj Malhotra as Inspector Rizwan Mirza
 * Murli Sharma as Katta Shridhar
 * Alan Kapoor as Krishna
 * Shresth Kumar as Amay
 * Nandish Sandhu as Inspector Sartaj Qureshi
 * Saurabh Dubey as Mr. Qureshi
 * Sara Khan as Ayesha Raza
 * Ravi Gossain as Kallan
 * Vishal Karwal as Inspector Vikas Sawant
 * Akshay Dogra as Ramya Narvekar
 * Raj Singh Suryavanshi as Varun Surve
 * Vishal Thakkar as Baburam Sawant
 * Prithvi Zutshi as Police Commissioner Vijay Mohanty
 * Raman Khatri as Ramesh Solanki
 * Piyush Sahdev as Inspector Anil Barve
 * Mita Vashisht as Maya Sinha
 * Rohit Purohit as Girish Sinha
 * Nidhi Jha as Geeta Sinha
 * Neetha Shetty as Ritu Joshi
 * Arup Pal as Police Commissioner Kapil Mhatre
 * Himmanshoo A. Malhotra as Inspector Tilak Nambiyar
 * Barkha Bisht as Urmila
 * Parakh Madan as Sub Inspector Sapna
 * Behzaad Khan as Ulhas
 * Ruslaan Mumtaz as Inspector Praveen Joshi
 * Raj Arjun as Dr. Roshan Lal
 * Govind Khatri as Bhau
 * Manini Mishra as Inspector Mita Gaekwad
 * Mahhi Vij as Aashna
 * Vinay Jain as Police Commissioner Surya Paneskar
 * Alihassan Turabi as Bijoy
 * Siraj Mustafa Khan as Fazlu
 * Ganesh Hedge as Pasha
 * Bhanu Uday as Inspector Praveen Waghle
 * Manish Wadhwa as Hegde
 * Arti Singh as Naina
 * Kabir Khan as Dariyab Pathan
 * Sanjay Gagnani as Inspector Farid Khan
 * Siddharth Vasudev as Suhas Kariyappa Kunchenaad
 * Puneet Vashisht as Vikas Kariyappa Kunchenaad
 * Nikhil Arya as Inspector Ajay Karmakar
 * Jignesh Mehta as Inspector Sudeep Sharma
 * Pankaj Vishnu as Prasadrao Godse
 * Rio Kapadia as Police Commissioner
 * Shaleen Malhotra as Inspector Achal Kutty
 * Hanif Hilal as Sharib Dabba
 * Tushar Jha as Child Achal Kutty

Reception
Throughout the globe, Encounter received mostly mixed to positive critical reception. The show has managed to make a mark with its storyline and presentation along with some brilliant casting.