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play the lead roles in this season.

Series overview

Plot

Detective Dev Anand Burman (

) battles inner demons caused by the death of his wife Mahek. He has become a recluse but still works on criminal cases with Inspector Amod Narvekar. The Inspector believes that Dev murdered his own wife. Dev befriends his landlady Zohra Aapa who treats him like a son. Later, he meets fire-brand Meera who forces him to reassess his life.

Cast

Detective A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency. They often collect information to solve crimes by talking to witnesses and informants, collecting physical evidence, or searching records in databases. This leads the ...

Dev Anand Burman *

as Mehek Miranda Burman / Vaani Sahay *

as Meera Banerjee *

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Amod Narvekar *

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as Zohra Rizvi *

Rajesh Khera Rajesh Khera (''Rājēśa Khērā'') is an Indian television actor and voice actor who has acted in many Hindi films and is remembered for the role of fashion designer Maddy in '' Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin''. He was recently seen as a contender ...

as Arastu Sahay *

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Fatima Hydari *

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as Pranali Saluja * Mandar Jadhav as Ankit Saluja * Neha Chowdhury as Janhvi Purohit * Gauri Singh * Vijay Badlani * Atharva Vishwakarma as Avinash Malhotra alias Avi *

as Dhwani Karchiwala * Divyangana Jain as Kinjal Singhal * Ayush Shrivastava as Bhaskar Tripathi * Sagar Mandal as Hemant

Controversy

The show was previously titled ''Dev Anand''. However, after the family of the legendary actor

Dev Anand Dev Anand (; born Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand; 26 September 1923 – 3 December 2011) was an Indian actor, writer, director and producer known for his work in Indian cinema, Hindi cinema. He is considered as one of the greatest and most succes ...

sent a notice to the makers, they decided to rename the show.

Episodes

References