Woh

Woh
Genre	Horror Thriller
Based on	It by Stephen King
Directed by	Glen Baretto Ankush Mohla
Starring	See below
Opening theme	Raju Singh
Ending theme	Uttank Vora
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	52
Production
Producers	Noshir Desai Bharat Sunder
Cinematography	Deepak Malwankar
Editor	Steven Bernard
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	25 minutes
Production company	United Studios Ltd
Original release
Network	Zee TV
Release	4 January – 20 December 1998

Woh (English: It) is a Hindi language Indian television horror-thriller series which aired on Zee TV in 1998. The series starred Indian film director Ashutosh Gowarikar as the protagonist. It is an adaptation of the 1990 American TV miniseries It.

Premise

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

All the friends return except Sanjeev who gets killed by Woh. The day they realize it the police take the friends into custody and they narrate how they battled Woh with the help of Samidha 15 years ago. 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 comes to know 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 is mysteriously killed. Ashutosh's friends arrive for Siddharth's 7th birthday, they realize Woh has returned in form of Siddharth. They go to the same caves and find out from the mother of Woh that he is her son who faced trouble from the society due to his short height. He committed suicide 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 good note.

Cast

• Ashutosh Gowarikar as Ashutosh
  • Shreyas Talpade as Young Ashutosh
• Lilliput as Vikram / Woh
• Mamik Singh as Rahul
• Anupam Bhattacharya as Sanjeev
  • Parag Nair as Young Sanjeev
• Amit Mistry as Ronnie
  • Sumeet Goradia as Young Ronnie
• Shonali Malhotra as Samidha
  • Juhi Parmar as Young Samidha
• Nasir Kazi as Raja
  • Ankur Javeri as Young Raja
• Seema Shetty as Julie
  • Namrata Gaur as Young Julie
• Ankush Mohla as Shiva
  • Adesh Rathi as Young Shiva
• Parzan Dastur as Siddharth, Ashutosh's son
• Sulabha Deshpande as Mother of Vikram / Woh
• Manoj Joshi as Amit
• 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, Ashutosh's wife
• Prashant Rane as Rohit,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 aunty)
• 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

See also

• List of Hindi horror shows

External links

• Woh at IMDb