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{{Infobox television
| name = Raaz Pichhle Janam Ka
| image = Raaz Pichhle Janam Ka, logo.png
| genre = [[Reality television|Reality]]
| num_seasons = 2
| picture_format = [[576i]]
| presenter = [[Ravi Kishan]]
| director = Shruti Anindita Vermaa
| country = India
| runtime = 58 minutes
| language = [[Hindi]]
| network = [[NDTV Imagine]]
| first_aired = {{start date|df=y|2009|12|7}}
| company =
| last_aired = {{end date|df=y|2011|1|29}}<ref name=hto/>
| website =
}}
'''''Raaz Pichhle Janm Ka''''' is an Indian [[reality television]] series created by Supavitra Babul, based around the technique of [[past life regression]]. The [[NDTV Imagine]] show is hosted by actor [[Ravi Kishan]], while the past life regression sessions are conducted by a Mumbai-based psychologist Trupti Jayin.<ref name=to>{{cite web |title=Want to know your past? |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-12-04/tv/28067592_1_past-life-past-lives-raaz-pichhle-janam-ka |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025135514/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-12-04/tv/28067592_1_past-life-past-lives-raaz-pichhle-janam-ka |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 October 2012 |date=4 December 2009 |work=[[The Times of India]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Raaz Pichley Janam Ka to peep into celebs' past |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/72285/Cinema/Raaz+Pichley+Janam+Ka+to+peep+into+celebs%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2+past.html |date=November 25, 2009 |publisher=[[India Today]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title= Want to know about past life?|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/smallscreen/Want-to-know-about-past-life/Article1-478786.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091124104805/http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/smallscreen/Want-to-know-about-past-life/Article1-478786.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 24, 2009 |date= November 21, 2009|publisher=[[Hindustan Times]] }}</ref> The first season started on 7 December 2009 and 15 January 2010, while Second season started on October 23, 2010, with actor, [[Chunky Pandey]] as guest.<ref name=hto/>

Participants include a mixture of invited celebrities and ordinary people selected through a phone-in process. Celebrity participants have included [[Shekhar Suman]], [[Monica Bedi]], [[Celina Jaitley]], [[Payal Rohatgi]] and [[Manvendra Singh Gohil]].

==Concept==
The show opens with the guest explaining a particular problem, usually a fear they are facing and wishes to find a solution or insight into. Thereafter they are taken through an extended past life regression session, edited for television.

===Past-life regression===
{{Main|Past life regression}}
'''Past life regression''' is a technique that uses [[hypnosis]] to recover what practitioners allege are [[Memory|memories]] of past lives or [[Reincarnation|incarnations]]. The practice is widely considered discredited and unscientific by medical practitioners, and experts generally regard claims of recovered memories of past lives as fantasies or delusions or a type of [[confabulation]].<ref name="Norcross2006">{{cite journal|vauthors=Norcross JC, Koocher GP, Garofalo A|date=October 2006|title=Discredited psychological treatments and tests: A Delphi poll.|url=https://semanticscholar.org/paper/cce72f4138d202cacf009a4a98313ce47ba86a7b|journal=Professional Psychology: Research and Practice|volume=37|issue=5|pages=515–522|doi=10.1037/0735-7028.37.5.515|s2cid=35414392}}</ref> Past-life regression is typically undertaken either in pursuit of a [[Spirituality|spiritual]] experience, or in a [[Psychotherapy|psychotherapeutic]] setting. Most advocates loosely adhere to beliefs about reincarnation,<ref name="Skepdic">{{cite book|author=Carroll RT|title=The Skeptic's Dictionary: a collection of strange beliefs, amusing deceptions, and dangerous delusions|title-link=The Skeptic's Dictionary|publisher=Wiley|year=2003|isbn=978-0-471-27242-7|location=New York|pages=[https://books.google.ca/books?id=6FPqDFx40vYC&pg=PA276 276–7]|author-link=Robert Todd Carroll}}</ref> though religious traditions that incorporate reincarnation generally do not include the idea of [[Repressed memory|repressed memories]] of past lives.<ref name="Cordon">{{cite book|author=Cordón LA|url=https://archive.org/details/popularpsycholog0000cord/page/183|title=Popular psychology: an encyclopedia|publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group|Greenwood Press]]|year=2005|isbn=978-0-313-32457-4|location=Westport, Conn|pages=[https://archive.org/details/popularpsycholog0000cord/page/183 183–5]}}</ref>

In the show, as explained by the show's therapist, Dr. Tripti Jayin, the patient are first taken into in a state of progressive relaxation, followed by an alpha-theta meditation through the visualization of light and then supposedly 'taken back' into the past to know the reason for things that trouble them in this birth. Some of the events are dramatized as the participant narrates certain incidents, and in the end talks about the experience.<ref name="to" /><ref>{{cite web|date=6 December 2010|title=1966 Air India crash victim reborn desi kahani|url=http://www.mydesibaba.com|work=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref>

===Recalled information===
Many of the participants have purportedly recalled information from the past. For example, Swati Singh, who appeared in the first episode, purportedly correctly recalled information about the 1966 [[Air India Flight 101]] crash incident (24 January 1966), in which she claimed that she was an Indian sailor with the last name Singh, and in this flight the eminent Indian [[physicist]] Dr. [[Homi J. Bhabha]] had also died.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://desiikahani.blogspot.com/2017/04/didi-ki-choot-pharri-aur-gand-ma-pura.html |title=News |publisher=Samay Live |access-date=2015-12-24}}</ref>

==Views of the Medical Community==
Past life regression is widely considered discredited and unscientific by medical practitioners, and experts generally regard claims of recovered memories of past lives as fantasies or delusions or a type of [[confabulation]].<ref name="Norcross2006" /> A 2006 survey found that a majority of a sample of doctoral level mental health professionals rated "Past Lives" therapy as "certainly discredited" as a treatment for mental or behavioral disorders.<ref name="Norcross20062">{{cite journal |vauthors=Norcross JC, Koocher GP, Garofalo A |date=October 2006 |title=Discredited psychological treatments and tests: A Delphi poll |journal=Professional Psychology: Research and Practice |volume=37 |issue=5 |pages=515–522 |doi=10.1037/0735-7028.37.5.515 |s2cid=35414392}}</ref>

In an interview with the Indian express specifically about this show, most psychiatrists said they do no believe in this therapy, Dr. Anshuman Mittal, a psychiatrist based in Patiala, says it is all about "fooling people. [...] There is no way one can dive into his or her past life. It is only a persons' supposition, his imagination, which comes out in a state of hypnosis."<ref>{{Cite news |title=Raaz Pichhle... creates stir but psychiatrists stay away: 'It has no scientific basis' |newspaper=Indian Express|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/raaz-pichhle...-creates-stir-but-psychiatrists--stay-away--it-has-no-scientific-basis-/569118/|access-date=2020-06-27}}</ref>

==Controversies==
Some people and organizations have raised doubts over the credibility and reality of the show.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://informationmadness.com/cms/entertainment/television/1975-reasons-to-believe-that-raaz-pichle-janam-ka-is-fake.html |title=Reasons To Believe That Raaz Pichle Janam Ka Is Fake |website=Informationmadness.com |access-date=2015-12-24}}</ref> Much of the past-life regression process is also not shown on television, so it can't be confirmed whether the process is real or not. No explanation has been given by [[NDTV Imagine]] in this regard.

===Statutory notice===
Bharat Jan Vigyan Jathan, an independent Indian organisation,has gotten a statutory notice issued by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to [[NDTV Imagine]]<ref>{{cite web|title=HC pulls up I&B over NDTV Imagine's reality show
|url=http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k9/dec/dec251.php |access-date=December 27, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100228133839/http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k9/dec/dec251.php |archive-date=February 28, 2010 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.ptinews.com/news/436491_HC-notice-to-I-B-Ministry-over-TV-serial ]{{dead link|date=December 2015}}</ref> for allegedly spreading superstition through the show. It also asked the channel for a public debate in the presence of experts and scientists and prove its credence scientifically.<ref>[http://www.mynews.in/News/%E2%80%98Raaz_Picchle_Janam_Ka%E2%80%99_issued_notice_for_spreading_%27superstition%27_N33037.html ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100115162649/http://www.mynews.in/News/%E2%80%98Raaz_Picchle_Janam_Ka%E2%80%99_issued_notice_for_spreading_%27superstition%27_N33037.html |date=January 15, 2010 }}</ref>

==Season 1==

===Episodes===
The first series of Raaz Pichhle Janam Ka began on 7 December 2009 and ended on 15 January 2010. Episodes were aired on NDTV Imagine nightly from Monday to Friday at 9:30pm. It was originally planned to have 20 episodes but this was extended to 40. The season finale revisited the participants post their experience on the show and explored the impact the show had made on their lives.<ref>[http://www.facebook.com/RaazPichhleJanamKa ]{{dead link|date=December 2015}}</ref>

The makers of the show, The Ideas Box Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. are said to be planning the second season of the show which is again planned to have 20 episodes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tellychakkar.com/news/raaz-picchle-janam-ka-begin-shooting-its-second-season-soon |access-date=January 27, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100125201246/http://www.tellychakkar.com/news/raaz-picchle-janam-ka-begin-shooting-its-second-season-soon |archive-date=January 25, 2010 }}</ref>

===Celebrity Participants===
*[[Mishal Raheja]], saw himself as a king during the Moghul era who was backstabbed by his people and pushed from a cliff. Before the procedure he told that he was afraid of heights.
* [[Shekhar Suman]], met his dead son
* [[Celina Jaitley]], saw herself as a German soldier fighting and dying in action in World War 2 in her first past life regression and as a happily married woman from the US in her second past life regression.
* [[Payal Rohatgi]], saw herself as a Boy in her previous birth who was betrayed by his lover.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/payalrohatgiblog/raaz-pichle-janam-ka-i-was-a-boy/ |title='Raaz Pichle Janam Ka': I was a BOY! - TOI Blogs |website=Blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com |access-date=2015-12-24}}</ref>
* [[Monica Bedi]], saw herself as a Portuguese woman, a self-sacrificing mother of three kids who watches helplessly as her ex-husband dies in a car accident.<ref>{{cite news |title=Meet Monica's ex-husband! |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-12-14/tv/28071549_1_monica-bedi-past-life-young-girl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025151038/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-12-14/tv/28071549_1_monica-bedi-past-life-young-girl |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 October 2012 |work=[[The Times of India]] |date=14 December 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ndtvimagine.com/shows/index.php?id=143 |access-date=December 26, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100306014331/http://www.ndtvimagine.com/shows/index.php?id=143 |archive-date=March 6, 2010 }}</ref>
* [[Manvendra Singh Gohil]] (Prince of [[Rajpipla]] and gay rights activist), saw himself as a poor farmer, and in a tragic accident while crossing a river, he lost his son. Manvendra's wife gets extremely disturbed at the loss of their son and this strongly affects their married life.
* Sambhavna Seth, saw herself as a Muslim woman, whose uncle had killed her after molesting her.
* [[Ravi Kishan]] (host of the show), saw himself as a ‘Naga Sadhu’ in [[Manali, Himachal Pradesh]] during the 1890s and tried to obtain [[moksha]] but failed; as certain circumstances that led him to commit not one, but three murders in his past life thereby altering his life forever.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120709080217/http://entertainment.oneindia.in/television/top-stories/news/2010/ravi-kishan-raaz-040110.html ]</ref>
* [[Eva Grover]] (Famous TV Star and ex-wife of actor Haider who happens to be [[Aamir Khan]]'s step brother).

==Raaz Pichhle Janam Ka (Season 2)==

Raaz Pichhle Janam Ka (Season 2) started on October 23, 2010, with same host [[Ravi Kishen]] and clinical psychologist-analyst Dr. Trupti Jayin, in an initial run of 20-episode of once a week broadcast on Saturdays at 9.00 pm. The shooting started around August 1, 2010 at a studio in [[Trombay]].,<ref name=hto>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/Raaz-Pichhle-Janam-Ka-is-back/Article1-577382.aspx|title=Raaz Pichhle Janam Ka is back|date=July 25, 2010|work=Hindustan Times|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123215505/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Raaz-Pichhle-Janam-Ka-is-back/Article1-577382.aspx|archive-date=November 23, 2010}}</ref> and first guest was actor [[Chunky Pandey]], other guests would include [[Mahima Chaudhary]] and [[Shakti Kapoor]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Raaz-Pichle-Janam-Ka-returns-with-more-glamour/690016|title=Raaz Pichle Janam Ka returns with more glamour|date=September 29, 2010|work=Indian Express}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Reincarnation]]
* [[Past life regression]]

==References==
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==External links==

{{Imagine Programmes}}

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[[Category:Imagine TV original programming]]
[[Category:Indian reality television series]]
[[Category:2009 Indian television series debuts]]
[[Category:Reincarnation]]
[[Category:Hindi-language television shows]]
[[Category:2011 Indian television series endings]]

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