''Woh'' (English: It) is a 52-episode Indian

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which aired on

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in 1998. The series starred Indian film director

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, and

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actor Lilliput in the title role. It is a

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TV show adaptation of

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'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

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called

Woh ''Woh'' (English: It) 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 sh ...

that kidnaps children, and free the town of

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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 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 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 is mysteriously killed. Ashutosh's friends arrive for Siddharth's seventh 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 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 good note.

Cast

* Lilliput as Vikram / Woh *

as Ashutosh Dhar **

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as Young Ashutosh Dhar *

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as Rahul Sahni * Nasirr Khan as Raja ** Ankur Javeri as Young Raja * Anupam Bhattacharya as Sanjeev ** Parag Nair as Young Sanjeev *

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as Ronnie Batliwala ** Sumeet Goradia as Young Ronnie Batliwala * Shonali Malhotra as Samidha Dikshit, Omkarnath's daughter **

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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 *

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as Siddharth Dhar, Ashutosh's son *

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as the mother of Vikram / Woh * Manoj Joshi as Amit Divecha *

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as Chandu *

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as Omkarnath Dikshit, the history teacher * Saurabh Dubey as Pinto, Julie's grandfather *

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as Anand *

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as Inspector Shinde *

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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

References

External links

* {{Zee TV Programmes 1998 Indian television series debuts Indian horror fiction television series It (novel) Television shows based on works by Stephen King Zee TV original programming

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