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{{short description|Indian television series}}
{{Multiple issues|{{notability|TV|date=May 2020}}{{unreliable sources|date=May 2020}}}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2013}}

{{Infobox television
|name = Kanoon
|caption =
|genre = [[Mystery film|Mystery]] [[Crime]]
| creator = [[B. R. Chopra]]
| developer =
| writer = Satish Bhatnagar [[Sachin Bhowmik]] Kulwant Jain [[Hasan Kamal]]
| director = [[B. R. Chopra]] [[Ravi Chopra]]
| starring = [[Pankaj Dheer]] [[Ananth Narayan Mahadevan]] [[Gajendra Chauhan]] [[Deep Dhillon]] [[Gufi Paintal]] [[Vinod Kapoor]] [[Virendra Razdan]] [[Surendra Pal]] [[Rupa Ganguly]] [[Navni Parihar]] [[Deepak Parashar]]
|country = [[India]]
|language = [[Hindi Language|Hindi]] [[Tamil Language|Tamil]] (Dubbed)
| num_seasons = 4
|num_episodes = 111
| executive_producer =
| producer = [[B. R. Chopra]]
| location = [[India]]
| cinematography = Dharam Chopra
| editor = Shailendra Doke Bhirpal Singh
|runtime = 25 minutes (approx)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt3z8c3qTJs&list=PLNKJJImmGYIRJYJJFSSeWs9Q4FjFbtIHk|title=YouTube links to the videos|accessdate=2020-01-19}}</ref>
|first_aired = {{start date|1993}}
|last_aired = {{end date|1996}}
|channel = [[DD Metro]]
| picture_format = {{plainlist|
* [[720p]] ([[HDTV]])
}}
}}

'''''Kanoon''''' is an [[Television in India|Indian television]] courtroom drama/crime series. The 111-episode [[Hindi]] series<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11605306/?ref_=ttep_ep_tt|title=Kanoon IMDB Page|date= |accessdate=2020-01-19}}</ref> had its original run from 1993 to 1996 on [[DD Metro]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/story/19931215-b-r-chopra-back-on-tv-with-courtroom-drama-811942-1993-12-15|title=B R Chopra back with courtroom drama|accessdate=2020-01-19}}</ref> It was produced by [[B. R. Chopra]] and directed by his son [[Ravi Chopra]]. The music was composed by [[Ravi (music director)|Ravi]]. Make-up for the series was done by Vimal Devkar.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11282812/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr22|title=Vimal Devkar's page on IMDB|accessdate=2020-01-19}}</ref> The concept of the story was given by Satish Bhatnagar, Sachin Bhowmik, Kulwant Jain and Hasan Kamal. Four seasons of the show were telecasted.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://nettv4u.com/about/Hindi/tv-serials/kanoon |title= Hindi Tv Serial Kanoon |last= |first= |date= |website= nettv4u.com |publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}.</ref>

Each episode ran for approximately 25 minutes and began with a title song rendered by [[Mahendra Kapoor]].

==Summary==
This TV serial by the [[Bollywood]] producer [[B. R. Chopra]] is styled after several of the movies he made and named after the famous movie, [[Kanoon]] (1960). The protagonist is a lawyer, assisted by a secretary and an assistant. The serial features several crime cases, which run to multiple episodes each.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11605306/?ref_=ttep_ep_tt|title=Kanoon IMDB Page|date= |accessdate=2020-01-19}}</ref>

== Cast ==
===Main===
{{Div col}}
*[[Pankaj Dheer]] as Vijay Saxena<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0223532/?ref_=tt_cl_t1|date= |title=Pankaj Dheer IMDB Page|accessdate=2020-01-19}}</ref>
*[[Ananth Narayan Mahadevan]] as Pasha Polyster<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0536705/?ref_=tt_cl_t2|date= |title=Ananth Mahadevan IMDB Page|accessdate=2020-01-19}}</ref>
*[[Vinod Kapoor]] as Inspector Shakti Singh<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1504869/?ref_=tt_cl_t3|date= |title=Vinod Kapoor IMDB Page|accessdate=2020-01-19}}</ref>
*[[Deep Dhillon]] as Public Prosecutor Indrajeet Singh<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0223560/?ref_=tt_cl_t4|date= |title=Deep Dhillon IMDB Page|accessdate=2020-01-19}}</ref>
*[[Kavita Kapoor]] as Milli<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0438478/?ref_=tt_cl_t5|date= |title=Kavita Kapoor IMDB Page|accessdate=2020-01-19}}</ref>{{div col end}}

===Episodewise===
{{columns-list|colwidth=20em|
*[[Rishabh Shukla]] as Mr. Mathur
*[[Rupa Ganguly]] as Mrs. Mathur
*Dinesh Anand as Sardesh Kumar/Khadir
*Girja Shankar as Caretaker
*[[Tanya Singh]] as Caretaker's daughter
*Pushpa Verma as Caretaker's wife
*[[Raza Murad]] as Syndicate Boss
*Ali Khan as Damodar
*Zaheer Rizvi as Sonny
*Hanu Rao as Sonny's friend
*[[Rahul Seth]] as Sonny's friend
*Gagan Gupta as Sonny's friend
*[[Gufi Paintal]] as Justice Raghunath
*Manju Vyas as Mrs. Raghunath
*[[Nattasha Singh]] as Dolly Raghunath
*Sumeet as Bunty Raghunath
*[[Sharat Saxena]] as Avinash / Inspector Sooraj Singh
*Vishnu Sharma as Police Commissioner
*Rana Jung Bahadur as Rajan
*[[Deepak Parashar]] as Deepak Dasgupta
*Dolly Sharma as Mina Dasgupta
*R.S. Chopra as Gyan Dasgupta/Bharadwaj
*[[Manjushree]] as Receptionist
*[[Surendra Pal]] as Judge
*Deepak Patel as Doctor Tyagi
*Vinod Rawat as Ram Barosan
*G.B. Singh as JK
*[[Virendra Razdan]] as Narendra Khanna/Dharampal
*Sanjay Mehendirata as Ajay Sharma/Dr. Jaswant
*[[Navni Parihar]] as Ramaa Sharma
*[[Tushar Dalvi]] as Prem Kapoor / Rajkishore
*Anita Kulkarni as Nimmi Kapoor / Guddi
*[[Deepshikha Nagpal]] as Maggie
*[[Alisha]] as Rebecca
*Anwar Fatehan as Pande
*Kaushal Kapoor as Drunkard
*Pramod Kapoor as Peter
*Chandrakant Pandya as Govardandas
*[[Dharmesh Tiwari]] as Judge
*Amita Nagia as Mrs. Jaswant
*[[Mamik Singh]] as Dr. Satish Khanna
*[[Ram Mohan]] as Dr. Sampath
*Kapil Kumar as Dr. Karan/Sundar
*[[Sujata Mehta]] as Rani
*[[Kavita Vaid]] as Rani’s maid
*[[Prithvi (actor)|Prithvi]] as Rani’s neighbour
*Brij Gopal as Paanwala
*Dharam Soni as Dr. Bhattacharya
*Jeetu Arora as Banarasilal
*[[Gajendra Chouhan]] as Chandra Saxena
*Phalguni Parikh as Mrs. Rashmi Saxena
*[[Shagufta Ali]] as Suzy Decosta/Mehtab
*Deepak Jethi as Peter (Suzy's boyfriend)/Darpan
*Balvinder as Randhir
*[[Jagruti]] as Natasha
*Mangala Duggal as Bamaa
*Shirazi as Manager Khatkar
*[[Kunika|Kunickaa Sadanand Lal]] as Gayathri
*[[Bharat Kapoor]] as JD
*Smita Siddharth as Miss Rita/JD's Secretary
*[[Jagdish Raj]] as Judge
*[[Raju Shrivastav]] as Car broker
*Deepak Patil as Virendar
*[[Mulraj Rajda]] as Giridharilal Khanna
*[[Manjeet Kullar]] as Rashmi
*Jharna Dave as Mrs. Chandra Saxena
*Vijay Saini as Shankar
*Imtiaz Khan as JK
*[[Pradeep Rawat (actor)|Pradeep Singh Rawat]] as Chandu/JK's henchman
*[[Shiva Rindani]] as Shankar Mukherjee
*[[Pankaj Berry]] as Narender Khanna
*[[Rajesh Khera]] as Prem Shankar
}}

==Episodes==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Episode No.!!Episode Name!!Actors/Actresses!!Character Played!!Plot
|-
|1-10
|Accident - Part 1-10
|[[Rishabh Shukla]] [[Rupa Ganguly]]
|Mr. Mathur Mrs. Mathur
|A man who loses his memory in an accident asks lawyer Vijay Saxena for help in restoring his memory.
|-
|11-19
|Aulaad - Part 1-9
|[[Tushar Dalvi]] [[Dharmesh Tiwari]]
|Raj Kishore Judge
|Inspector Shakti Singh's mother asks Vijay Saxena to defend and exonerate the man who is accused of
killing her daughter.
|-
|20-28
|Bekasoor - Part 1-9
|Dinesh Anand [[Mulraj Rajda]]
|Sardesh Kumar Giridharilal Khanna
|Vikram Saxena narrates the incidents relating to his first case wherein a retired judge asks his help
in reopening a case so that an innocent man's life can be saved.
|-
|29-36
|Beti - Part 1-8
|Girja Shankar [[Tanya Singh]] Pushpa Verma [[Raza Murad]] Ali Khan Zaheer Rizvi Hanu Rao [[Rahul Seth]] Gagan Gupta
|Caretaker Caretaker's daughter Caretaker's wife Syndicate Boss Damodar Sonny Sonny's friend Sonny's friend Sonny's friend
|Vikram Saxena defends a tribal leader for murder of an underworld don's son in revenge for the rape of
his daughter by the don's son.
|-
|37-42
|Judge Saab - Part 1-6
|[[Gufi Paintal]] [[Manju Vyas]] [[Nattasha Singh]] [[Sumeet]] [[Sharat Saxena]] [[Vishnu Sharma]] [[Anita Kulkarni]]
|Justice Raghunath Mrs. Raghunath Dolly Raghunath Bunty Raghunath Avinash Police Commissioner Dolly's friend
|Vijay Saxena defends a judge accused of murdering a man who was sentenced to life imprisonment
by the judge himself.
|-
|43-47
|Bewafa - Part 1-5
|[[Sharat Saxena]]
|Inspector Sooraj Singh
|An inspector accused of murdering his wife asks Vijay Saxena for help in proving his innocence.
|
|-
|48-52
|Blackmail - Part 1-5
|[[Rana Jung Bahadur]] [[Deepak Parashar]] [[Dolly Sharma]] [[R.S. Chopra]] [[Manjushree]] [[Surendra Pal]] [[Deepak Patel]] [[Vinod Rawat]] [[G.B. Singh]]
|Rajan Deepak Dasgupta Mina Dasgupta Gyan Dasgupta Receptionist Judge Doctor Tyagi Ram Barosan JK
|A woman accused of killing her first husband and the woman's present husband both ask Vijay Saxena
for help in exonerating her.
|
|-
|53-58
|Faraar - Part 1-6
|[[Pankaj Berry]]
|Narendra Khanna
|Vijay Saxena defends a man accused of killing his sister.
|
|-
|59-68
|Gunaah - Part 1-10
|[[Sanjay Mehendirata]] [[Navni Parihar]] [[R.S. Chopra]] [[Tushar Dalvi]] [[Anita Kulkarni]] [[Deepshika]] [[Alisha]] [[Anwar Fatehan]] Kaushal Kapoor [[Promod Kapoor]] [[Chandrakant Pandya]] [[Dharmesh Tiwari]]
|Ajay Sharma Ramaa Sharma Bharadwaj/Ramaa's father Prem Kapoor Nimmi Kapoor/Guddi Maggie Rebecca Pande Drunkard Peter Govardandas Judge
|A man looking for a companion in the absence of his wife is accused of murder and comes to Vijay Saxena
for help.
|
|-
|69-74
|Khamoshi - Part 1-6
|[[Sanjay Mehendirata]] [[Amita Nagia]] [[Mamik Singh]] [[Ram Mohan]] [[Kapil Kumar]] [[Sujata Mehta]] [[Kavita Vaid]] [[Dinesh Anand]] [[Prithvi]] [[Surendra Pal]] [[Brij Gopal]] [[Dharam Soni]] [[Jeetu Arora]] [[Gufi Paintal]]
|Dr. Jaswant Mrs. (actor)|Jaswant Dr. Sathish Khanna Dr. Sampath Dr. Karan Rani Rani’s maid Khadir Rani’s neighbour Judge Paanwala Dr. Bhattacharya Banarasilal Justice Raghunath
|A doctor requests Vijay Saxena's help in exonerating a close friend of his.
|
|-
|75-87
|Bhabhi - Part 1-13
|[[Gajendra Chouhan]] [[Phalguni Parikh]] [[Virendra Razdan]] [[Shagufta Ali]] [[Deepak Jethi]] [[Balvinder]] [[Jagruti]] [[Mangala Duggal]] [[Shirazi (actor)|Shirazi]] [[Bharat Kapoor]] [[Smita Siddharth]] [[Jagdish Raj]] [[Raju Shrivastave]] [[Deepak Patil]]
|Chandra Saxena Mrs. Rashmi Saxena Dharampal/Rashmi's father Suzy Decosta/Mehtab Peter/Suzy's boyfriend Randhir Natasha Bamaa/Rashmi's maid Manager Khatkar JD Miss Rita/JD's Secretary Judge Car broker Virendar
|Vijay Saxena's brother is murdered and Vijay's sister-in-law is the prime accused in the murder.
|
|-
|88-95
|Khudkushi - Part 1-8
|[[Kunika|Kunickaa Sadanand Lal]] [[Deepak Jethi]] [[Kapil Kumar]] [[Mulraj Rajda]] [[Dharmesh Tiwari]] [[Imtiaz Khan]]
|Gayathri Darpan Sundar Giridharilal Khanna Judge JK
|An ex-college mate asks Vijay Saxena to help defend her when she is accused of killing her husband.
|
|-
|96-111
|Zindagi - Part 1-16
|[[Mulraj Rajda]] [[Manjit Kular]] [[Gajendra Chouhan]] [[Jharna Dave]] [[Vijay Saini]] [[Imtiaz Khan]] [[Pradeep Rawat (actor)|Pradeep Singh Rawat]] [[Dharmesh Tiwari]]
|Giridharilal Khanna Rashmi Chandra Saxena Mrs. Chandra Saxena Shankar JK Chandu/JK's henchman Judge
|Vijay Saxena seeks to bring to justice the man who killed his wife.
|
|}

==Other crew==
{{columns-list|colwidth=20em|
*[[B.R. Chopra]] and [[Ravi Chopra]] , Directors
*Anand Bhalla, Associate director
*Vishal Desai, Seema Pillai, [[Dinesh Sharma (actor)|Dinesh Sharma]], Ramesh Sharma and Yogesh Singh, Assistant directors
*R.K. Sibal, Second assistant director
*Sunil Mahajan, Chief accountant
*Patil B.P., Accountant
*Suresh Devadiga, Action assistant
*Shakoor Pathan, Action director
*Bharat, Art department
*Raju Gawda, [[Laxman]], Paras Naik, [[Ram Narayan]], Narayan Palekar, [[Ramu]], [[Santosh]] and [[Shanker]], Art department
*Y.L. Bagchi, [[Jaidev]] and Madhu Pandey, Art direction
*Romaldo Fernandes, Godfrey Gonsalves, Sachin Kurhade and Arun Naik, Assistant editor
*Chandra Kamal, Surya Kamal and Vinay Kamal, Assistant music editor
*Raj Chopra and [[Ramesh Jain]], Assistant producer
*Dharam Chopra, Director of photography
*Pratap Chowdhary, First assistant camera
*Ashish Mukherjee, Mohan Prajapat, Bharat Sovani and [[Narayan Rao]], Camera operator
*A. Karim, Chief technician
*Aniket Rangnekar,Tech advisor
*Tony Banks, Computer graphics
*Vandana Punjabi, Prinay Singh and Navin Suchitta, Computer graphics
*Paulomi Bhattacharya, Costume coordinator
*Mohan Kasardekar, Vishnu Patil and Prabhakar Pawar, Costumer
*Shailendra Doke and Birpal Singh, Editing
*Jumbo & Narsing, Equipment incharge
*Vimal Devkar, Hair stylist
*[[Ravi (music director)|Ravi]],vMusic director
*[[Mahendra Kapoor]], Title music
*[[Ramesh Rathod]], Re-recording mixer
*Kulwant Jain, Lyrics / dialogue editor
*Chaman Kundal, Vinayak Morajkar and Shyam Raut, Makeup artist
*B.R. Vyas, Office coordinator
*Kishore Malhotra, Production manager
*Ramesh Palekar, Production assistant
*[[Suresh]], Production boys
*Birju, Ramesh Joshi, Manuel and [[Sushil]], Production design
*Satish Bhatnagar, [[Sachin Bhowmik]], Kulwant Jain and [[Hasan Kamal]], Screenplay
*[[Ganesh]], [[Hiraji]], [[Isaq]],Kashinath, Kishore, Patil, [[Rafiq]], [[Sanjiva]] and [[Sheku]], Set decoration
*Chandu Patil, Gurudas Patil, Pravin Patil, Shafiq, Sunil Vengurlekar and Swapnil Vengurlekar, Sound assistant
*Arbind Sinha, Stills
*Mohan Kudu, Stills assistant
*Suresh Devadiga, Stunt assistant
*Anil, [[Dutta]], [[Purushottam]], Sachin, Somanth, [[Sunil]] and [[Yuvraj]], Video unit
}}
==See also==
{{div col|colwidth=20em}}
* [[Mahabharat (1988 TV series)|''Mahabharat'' (1988 TV series)]]
{{div col end}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|11605306}}

[[Category:1993 Indian television series debuts]]
[[Category:1996 Indian television series endings]]

Kanoon (TV series) - Revision history

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