Woh

Woh is a 52-episode Indian horror thriller television series which aired on Zee TV in 1998. The series starred Indian film director Ashutosh Gowarikar, and dwarf actor Lilliput in the title role. It is a Hindi-language TV show adaptation of Stephen King's epic horror novel It.

Premise
Seven teenagers Ashutosh, Raja, Julie, Shiva, Ronnie, Sanjeev and Rahul battle an evil force that takes the form of a clown called Woh that kidnaps children, and free the town of Panchgani of his evil influence. They promise to return, if Woh ever returns. Fifteen years after they part ways, Ashutosh starts seeing balloons, at places where children are being kidnapped. He immediately recognises that Woh has returned and calls his friends to return.

All the friends return except Sanjeev who gets killed by Woh. The day they realise that the police take the friends into custody and they narrate how they battled Woh with the help of Samidha fifteen years ago. The police believe them and release them. They go and meet Samidha and she joins their group. They finish Woh with difficulty. The same day Ashutosh learns his wife is pregnant. Raja proposes to Samidha. All the friends return to their normal lives. Bad omens happen during the birth of Ashutosh's child Siddharth. His doctor and years later Ashutosh's wife's aunt are mysteriously killed. Ashutosh's friends arrive for Siddharth's seventh birthday, and realise Woh has returned as Siddharth. They go to the same caves and find out from the mother of Woh that he was her son who was bullied by society due to his dwarfism. He killed himself and became a vengeful ghost. The friends convince him to leave Siddharth's body and help him attain salvation. Siddharth is saved and the story ends on a happy note.

Cast

 * Lilliput as Vikram / Woh
 * Ashutosh Gowarikar as Ashutosh Dhar
 * Shreyas Talpade as Young Ashutosh Dhar
 * Mamik Singh as Rahul Sahni
 * Nasirr Khan as Raja
 * Ankur Javeri as Young Raja
 * Anupam Bhattacharya as Sanjeev
 * Parag Nair as Young Sanjeev
 * Amit Mistry as Ronnie Batliwala
 * Sumeet Goradia as Young Ronnie Batliwala
 * Shonali Malhotra as Samidha Dikshit, Omkarnath's daughter
 * Juhi Parmar as Young Samidha Dikshit, Omkarnath's daughter
 * Seema Shetty as Julie
 * Namrata Gaur as Young Julie
 * Ankush Mohla as Shiva
 * Adesh Rathi as Young Shiva
 * Parzan Dastur as Siddharth Dhar, Ashutosh's son
 * Sulabha Deshpande as the mother of Vikram / Woh
 * Manoj Joshi as Amit Divecha
 * Daya Shankar Pandey as Chandu
 * Asif Basra as Omkarnath Dikshit, the history teacher
 * Saurabh Dubey as Pinto, Julie's grandfather
 * Mukesh Jadhav as Anand
 * Iqbal Azad as Inspector Shinde
 * Sukanya Kulkarni as Radhika Dhar, Ashutosh's wife
 * Prashant Rane as Rohit Sahni, Rahul's brother
 * Gyan Prakash as Shiva's father
 * Shobha Pradhan as Ronnie's mother
 * Dolly Dotiwalla as Mrs. Cooper, the librarian
 * Vicky Ahuja as Ranjeet
 * Yogesh Pagare as young Ranjeet
 * Raul Dias as Chikki
 * Shishir Rungta as Samir
 * Dr.Vilas Ujawane as Samir's father (Shiva's uncle)
 * Meena Naik as Samir's mother (Shiva's aunt)
 * Nayan Bhatt as Nayan, the maid
 * Kannu Gill as Durga Masi (Radhika's aunt)
 * Pratibha Goregaonkar as Mrs. Bhinde, Hindi teacher
 * Amarnath Mukherjee as Mr. Bhalla
 * Ramesh Goyal as Salim Bhai

2022 TV series
In 2022, another Indian version of It was released. The series was known as Yeh, which has almost the same storyline as the series and was based on the 2017 film and its 2019 sequel.

The first season of the series started with Raja and Georgina (they were siblings) and they were trying to figure out who the ancient clown called Yeh is. They got the other members of the Loser Club.

The second season of the series started with Rahul giving Rohit a paper boat to play with. Rohit set the boat on the water and it sunk. Yah appeared and offered him the boat back and then, he killed him. Ever since then, Rahul has been having nightmares about it. He and his friends battled Yeh with the help of Raja.

15 years later, Yeh is back and possessing Raja. Rahul and his friends convince him to leave his body and ultimately reveal his original human form. He explains that a friend he once had turned on him. So, he became a clown and then, took his own life, causing him to become an evil ghost clown. However, they tell him to apologize, causing him to turn into a glowing leaf that ascends into the sky.