Poison is a 2019 Indian

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that is streaming on

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. The 11-episode

is written by Shiraz Ahmed and directed by Jatin Wagle. It stars

Arbaaz Khan Arbaaz Salim Abdul Rashid Khan (born 4 August 1967) is an Indian actor and film producer who primarily works in Bollywood, Hindi cinema, in addition to Telugu language, Telugu and Malayalam, Malayalam cinema. Since making his debut in 1996, h ...

Riya Sen Riya Sen (born Riya Dev Varma; 24 January 1981) is an Indian actress and model. who predominantly appears in Hindi, Bengali, English, Telugu and Tamil films. Sen comes from a royal background; her father Bharat Dev Varma hails from the royal ...

Freddy Daruwala Freddy Daruwala (born 1983/1984) is an Indian model and actor based in Mumbai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, predominantly known for his roles as the Sleeper Cell's Head opposite Akshay Kumar in the Bollywood film Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty, ' ...

and

Tanuj Virwani Tanuj Virwani is an Indian actor and model active in the Bollywood industry. He is best known for his role of Vayu Raghavan in the 2017 Amazon Original television series ''Inside Edge''. He has also played integral roles in Alt Balaji's ''Cod ...

. The series is Arbaaz Khan's digital debut.

Synopsis

Ranveer (Tanuj) completes his prison sentence for a crime he didn't commit. He sets out to Goa in a quest for revenge. Vikram (Freddy) is a DSP who aspires to become the police commissioner and sets out to nab Antonio Verghese (Arbaaz), a don who operates from Goa. What happens when the lives of these three men entwine with each other forms the crux of the series.

Cast

as Ranveer *

as DSP Vikram *

as Antonio Verghese *

as Natasha *

Pankaj Dheer Pankaj Dheer is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi films and TV series. He is known for his role of Karna in TV series ''Mahabharat and'' other roles in '' Chandrakanta'', ''The Great Maratha'', '' Yug'' and '' Badho Bahu''. He appeared in se ...

as Barrister D’Costa *

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as Jai Dixit *

Archanna Guptaa Archana Gupta (also known as Archanna Guptaa) is an Indian actress and model based out of Mumbai. She has acted in Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu and a Russian film. She recently acted in a web series called ''Poison'' for ZEE5 along with Ar ...

as Megha *

Ruhani Sharma Ruhani Sharma is an Indian actress and model who primarily works in Telugu films. She made her acting debut in with the Tamil film '' Kadaisi Bench Karthi'' (2017) and received praise for her lead role in ''Chi La Sow'' (2018), marking her Telu ...

as Jhanvi *

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as Ashu * Saakshi Pradhan as Rani * Gaurav Sharma as Pawan *

Bikramjeet Kanwarpal Major Bikramjeet Kanwarpal (29 August 1968 1 May 2021) was an Indian film and television actor. A retired army officer, Kanwarpal had played supporting roles in many films and television serials. Kanwarpal shared screen space with actor Anil K ...

as Commissioner * Darshan Gokani as Jacob * Faisal Rashid as Inspector

Production

Poison was one of the 72 shows that were announced at ZEE5's first-anniversary event in February 2019. However, reports about the series’ cast were being made as early as January 2019. The series marks the second collaboration between Arbaaz Khan and ZEE5, after the webcast of his talk show, Pinch. Along with Arbaaz Khan, actor

also makes his digital debut with this series. Zee5 announced the second season ''

Poison 2 ''Poison 2'' is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language Action fiction, action Crime fiction, crime thriller web series that is streaming on ZEE5. directed by Vishal Pandya and produced by Panorama Entertainmanet & Bombay Media Works. ''Poison 2'' casts ...

'' which released on 16 October 2020.

Episodes

References

External links

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