Genre: Fiction • Horror • Fantasy | 20 Episodes
Age Description: U/A 13+ PG - Language, Violence
Our ancient stories and myths are rife with tales of battles between the good and evil, wherein good always defeats evil. However, evil is never truly destroyed. It only bides its time in the shadows, awaiting an opportunity to strike and make its presence known to humanity. The world as we know it is an imagined reality with the ancient evil still present, using human forms to carry out its diabolical plans. Planning a Mahayagya, the descendants of this ancient evil, the Daanavs, are reviving Maya, the mother of all Asuras. Their foul plans are underway - the destruction of humanity their sole purpose. All that stands between them and the destruction of our world is a clandestine team keeping evil at bay. Daanav Hunters chronicles the adventures of Professor Bhagawat and his team whove made it their mission to keep and restore peace whenever these Daanavs surface. With a team of four, Professor Bhagawats team consists of Major Arkin, an ex-army officer and the teams stand-in leader, Professor Gordon, the mad and lovable junkyard scientist, Shoondi, an Aghori outcast who is the living encyclopedia on all things supernatural, and Vanya, professor Bhagawats daughter, who becomes the latest addition to the team. Together they make up the Daanav Hunters and the last hope for humanity.
When no one is able to reach Arkin and Shoondi, Vanya gets suspicious and uses the GPS system to locate the van. When Vanya tries to open the van, she instantly gets a vision of what happened with Shoondi. With Alina by her side, she grabs the weapons and heads to where Arkin and Shoondi are trapped. But Kaya takes the form of Alina and leaves Vanya surrounded by two Alinas. Vanya points her gun at one of them and fires it.
When an army colonel is mysteriously killed, the police approach Arkin and Shoondi for their view on his unnatural death. Arkin and Shoondi go meet the colonels daughter to find out what happened. She tells them of the supernatural beings that killed her father and all three find themselves on the trail to the killer. But when Arkin finds the daughter tied down as prisoner in an abandoned mill, he turns around to find the Daanav who was posing as the colonels daughter laughing at him. With Arkin and Shoondi both trapped by a shape-shifting Daanav, called Kaya, there is no way of reaching the rest of the team.
The team is on a mission to stop Maya. She escapes, but not before discovering Vanyas Bhagwat lineage. During the course of events, Shoondi is surprised by Arkins extraordinary physical prowess and begins to question his humanity. Although wary of Arkin now, Shoondi decides to keep this information to himself.
The sleepy village of Kalgad has something suspicious going on at night When the team investigates, they find a trio of dangerous Daanavs abducting young girls in the area and taking them to the ruins of an ancient Asura temple. The Daanavs have been nourishing Maya with sacrificial blood and she might regain her full strength if the ritual is completed before the full moon. As their plan to use Vanya as bait goes haywire, the team is hampered by a run in with the cops.
Under the pretext of bonding with Vanya, Sandhya invites her, Alina and Gordon to an ashram for a retreat. The ashram belongs to a rishi who is a follower of Vishnus avatar, Varaha. But upon arrival in the ashram, Vanya begins to get visions of disturbing rituals that happen in the grounds of the ashram. She is very disturbed and leaves the meditation room. She relays her concerns to Alina and Gordon, and the team begins to investigate..
Mysterious deaths are taking place on the sets of a high profile horror film based on chudhails. Rumor is that the spirit of a real chudhail has been evoked and is preying on the crew members. The team takes interest in the case and to everyones surprise, Vanya decides to accompany them during the investigation. Soon the team learns that there is no chudhail and that the lead actress of the film is into black magic and is preying on crew members energy.
When priceless painting comes to life and kills its owner, the team is called by the victims daughter. Trying not to become victims themselves, the team tries to hunt down the demon in the painting. While trying to burn the painting in which the soul of the Daanav resides, Arkin becomes the victim of the Daanavs wrath. But in a twist of events, Arkins fatal wounds begin healing instantly. The team is shocked and wonders how he could have healed so quickly and their suspicions begin to surface.
When mysteriously decapitated bodies of men start showing up around town, Arkin and the team go undercover to investigate the common denominator between all the murders. They land up in a dance bar where all the victims had been before their deaths. Arkin saves a bar dancer from a disgruntled patron of the bar. She is grateful for his help and both of them have a moment of connection. As Gordon and Arkin are about to head home in an inebriated state, Arkin tells Gordon that he needs to go back to investigate one of his suspicions. Meanwhile at home, Vanya gets visions of Arkin being in trouble. She comes to bar looking for them but only finds an unconscious Gordon sleeping in the van. She wakes Gordon up and goes back to the bar only to find Arkin missing.
Children from a peaceful gated community fall prey to a mysterious illness. With no cure in sight, a teacher living in the community asks the team for help. The symptoms immediately reveal that the kids have been preyed upon by a Daayan. But the Dayaan is one of the most difficult supernatural creatures to not just catch but also identify. With the help of the teacher and his girlfriend, the team begins the hunt against all odds and what seems like a case going cold turns out to be an elaborate con cooked up by Arkin and Shoondi to lure the Daayan out.
When a little boy loses his father to a shadow monster, the world doesnt believe his story. But the team knows better and investigates the mysterious death. When the boy is questioned, Shoondi recognizes the presence of an abnormal being in the boys room. On probing further, they find out that this shadow demon has been invoked by black magic. They interrogate the people associated with the family, and realize the culprit is far from obvious.
Meanwhile, through an intercutting flashback, it is revealed how the Professor first met Shoondi and the reasons for him being outcast by the Aghori elders. The past and the present collide as a forbidden deed from Shoondis past comes back to haunt him and Vanya and Arkin race against the clock to prove his innocence.
A vicious serial killer is on the loose, stealing the organs from his dead victims. Based on this clue, the police arrests Shoondi. But when Shoondi himself admits to these murders, both the professor and the team are shocked. Vanya is instructed by the professor to get legal help for Shoondi. Arkin also starts investigating on his own and makes some startling discoveries.
Arkin and Shoondi immediately fly down to Kerala to help Vanya. There they see that all the managers in the hotel are dead. Arkin, Shoondi and Vanya find themselves investigating a case involving mysterious deaths. They try to find out what went wrong in the Theyam performance by interrogating people. They come face to face with resurrection of an ancient asura who has become even more strong.
Vanya decides to meet her school friend, Karuna in the backwaters of Kerala. On reaching the resort, Vanya gets to know that her friend died a couple of days ago due to a sudden heart attack. While investigating further, she comes to know that a cultural dance program portraying the slaying of Darakasuran by the Goddess Bhadrakali had taken place a couple of days ago and the person playing the character of asura had killed the person playing the character of the goddess in real life. Soon Vanya is haunted by ghosts and begins to see visions of an ancient asura. Scared out of her wits, she is left with no option but to call the very people she wanted to stay away from her fathers team.
Arkin and Shoondi are hypnotized and sent to kill Vanya but with the professors help, the two are brought back to their senses in the nick of time. When they learn that Raghav is marrying Sandhya to get his stake in the property, the team tries to stop his evil plans.
Vanya finally meets her aunt Sandhya who is handling the Bhagwat property. She is in two minds about the signing. Vanya also meets her aunts eccentric fiance, Raghav. Raghav is a master of Vashikaran hypnotism. Through his skill, he has managed to get Sandhya and the board of trustees under his control. But hes unable to do the same with Vanya in order to get her to sign the papers that would give him control of the Bhagawat property.
The team encounters other vampires Raktachushaks who unexpectedly help them get out of the case. In the process of getting out, Vanya ends up saving the Raktachushak heiress life Vira and earns her friendship. The team also learns that the Raktachushaks were never involved in the blood bank robberies and that the mastermind behind the crimes is none other than Lankeshwar. He and his level 2 Asura, Chota Circuit, were the ones stealing the blood in order to nourish Maya, the Asura deity. Arkin sets off to avenge his family against Chota Circuit who had betrayed his family and been the cause of their annihilation.
During Vanyas time there, she and the team learn of a string of mysterious blood bank robberies around the city. The team begins investigating and learns that there are other supernatural entities behind these blood bank robberies. They realize that these creatures are Raktachushak, or what we call, Vampires. The team soon finds itself entangled in another case and also in the middle of a bloody family feud.
Vanya gets the shock of her life when she learns that her fathers spirit has managed to remain in the human world, only to guide his daughter into the truth of her existence. Professor Bhagawat wants Vanya to step into his shoes and take care of the family business asura hunting as she is his successor and the last descendant of the clairvoyant Bhagwat bloodline. A shape shifting asura infiltrates the Bhagwat mansion and wreaks havoc, releasing a powerful asura entity called Ratnaak from an ancient prison box. It is learned that years ago Ratnaak had claimed the soul of Vanyas mother.
Vanya gets accepted to Princeton University with a full research scholarship. Amidst her excitement, she notices an opened email on her grandfathers laptop. It comes as a shock to her that not only is her father alive but also in critical condition due to an accident. Vanya spent her entire life believing that she was an orphan and now that she knows that her father is out there, she takes a vow to go to him and get the answers to her questions.
In battles won and wars lost, there are many lives claimed regardless of the victor. Its not easy to face the perils of warfare even as a trained soldier. But not all wars are won on the battlefield and not all soldiers fight in combat. There are those soldiers who are invisible, unhindered, risking their lives and limbs to protect the honor of their king, country, and home. Adrishya makes you experience life from the point of view of Indias greatest spies, living through the danger, the fear, the triumphs and the captures. We see the spys heroic acts through their eyes and follow them as they travel through dangerous landscapes, slip into disguises, and hoodwink enemy soldiers. We become privy to their thoughts as they inch towards fulfilling their mission.
In a land where the Emperor reigned supreme, only the selected few would have the power to influence his decisions. Prince Salim was first in line to inherit his father, Akbars throne. Already married to his first wife, Man Bai, Salim was on his way to strengthening the Mughal relations with Rajputana with his second marriage to Jagat Gosini. But amidst the lavish palaces and plush lives of the Mughal royalty, a war was being fought from within. While the kings charted the political climate for the country, the queens ruled that throne at home. Mehrunissa, bright and charismatic, always dreamt of becoming queen and when the invitation came from the pasha begum herself, Mehrunissa joined her team of ladies in waiting. Hereon begins the love story of Salim and Mehrunissa from their first meeting until their coronations as Jehangir and Nur-Jahan. The series interweaves various plot lines from the lives of many historical characters including Akbar, Ruqaiyya Begum, Abul Fazal and many others. Based on the popular book The Twentieth Wife by author Indu Sundaresan, Siyaasat is a story of politics, inter-personal conflicts, sabotage, grandeur, power and above all else, the love between Salim and Mehrunissa, who was Salims twentieth and final wife.
A single man’s quest to end suffering changed the course of history for a large part of the continent. In ‘Buddha-Sutra’ we examine various facts about the Buddha, his teachings and the spread of Buddhism. This series of animated shorts also explores the impact Buddhism has had on art and architecture, politics and history.
EPIC India Quiz Challenge is a one-of-a-kind quiz competition in which teams from schools across India will fight for the crown of having the highest ‘IQ’ i.e. India Quotient. The show tests the contestants’ India Quotient, their knowledge of the country- its culture, history, geography, current affairs, and more. Actor Meiyang Chang hosts the show through which children can test their knowledge about India, and at the same time learn more about its fascinating history and culture.
Have you always wondered why Indian mythological stories are replete with various animals? Why does every God have a vaahan? And why that vaahan only? Why are the avatars of Vishnu from the animal world – varaha pig, narsimha lion, matsya fish? And why those animals only? Is it all just coincidence or is there a deeper meaning behind it? Indian mythology is teeming with stories and legends of animals and birds that we see around us even today. Why are these animals so integral to our legends? Watch Animals in Mythology to know more about the crucial role animals play in our mythologies, only on EPIC Channel.
In a land where the Emperor reigned supreme, only the selected few would have the power to influence his decisions. Prince Salim was first in line to inherit his father, Akbars throne. Already married to his first wife, Man Bai, Salim was on his way to strengthening the Mughal relations with Rajputana with his second marriage to Jagat Gosini. But amidst the lavish palaces and plush lives of the Mughal royalty, a war was being fought from within. While the kings charted the political climate for the country, the queens ruled that throne at home. Mehrunissa, bright and charismatic, always dreamt of becoming queen and when the invitation came from the pasha begum herself, Mehrunissa joined her team of ladies in waiting. Hereon begins the love story of Salim and Mehrunissa from their first meeting until their coronations as Jehangir and Nur-Jahan. The series interweaves various plot lines from the lives of many historical characters including Akbar, Ruqaiyya Begum, Abul Fazal and many others. Based on the popular book, The Twentieth Wife by author Indu Sundaresan, Siyaasat is a story of politics, inter-personal conflicts, sabotage, grandeur, power and above all else, the love between Salim and Mehrunissa, who was Salims twentieth and final wife.
If youd imagine an ace cricketer to host a television show, you can be sure it will be a sports related series. And, Umeed India makes a compelling case. For the first time, versatile cricketer Virender Sehwag will host a television show. Umeed India will showcase groundbreaking stories of diversified, intrepid athletes aiming for glory at Olympics 2020. For the 13-part series, Virender reinstates the fact that Olympic stars never just appear at the Games. Their stories start in small villages, where they train every day with one aim in mind bringing home that Gold. Watch Virender travel to their training bases, chronicling exciting moments in the home environment besides interviewing the athletes families and coaching staff. The episodes feature inspiring stories of OP Karhana, Suyash Yadav, Avtar Singh and Dutee Chand along with Sakshi Malik, Vinesh Poghat among many other Olympians. Can we find the 2020 medalists for India in 2017?
Set in 19th century Delhi, our story takes place at time when technology and science are still in their infancy and modern tools of investigation havent yet been invented. While Bahadur Shah Zafar II reigns ostensibly, the British might and influence increases each day, and with it, a spate of crimes. As crime multiplies, the police grapples to keep up with the mounting unsolved cases. Under these circumstances, when the Kotwal finds himself in the midst of a felonious mystery, he seeks the help of the only man who can come to his aid, Mirza Jaan Nawaz. Though eccentric in his methods of investigation, Mirza proves himself time and again, unravelling a new mystery with every case. Without the aid of technology, Mirza relies on the most potent tool of all his brain With an equal measure of intelligence and looks, Mirza Jaan Nawaz knows how to maneuver every situation. The ladies want him and the men want to be him. But Mirza only has eyes for his love, Zeenat, from whom he often seeks counsel. But even this man of mystery and strength has a past that continues to haunt him. As he moves from case to case, he gets closer to confronting his own demons and finding answers for himself. Blessed with support from the Kotwal and his son, Shyam, Mirza cracks down on the criminals through his powers of reasoning and observation, delivering justice to Daribas citizens, only on Dariba Diaries
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Epic Ke Dus is a half-hour collated list of the top ten people, places or events of a chosen topic, examples of which include rivalries, thinkers and warriors. Each topic has been thoroughly researched and a panel of experts on the subject has carefully selected the stories that are fitting to be part of the topic. This panel is seen on the episodes giving their views on the events, the significance of the event and describing the mood of the era, publics reaction to these events and how it contributed to change the course of Indian history.
The Time Travelers A genius scientist Kartik Devraj KD brings together a group of strangers to travel back in time to accomplish tasks in the past. KD ropes in Adheer, the master thief, Roshni, the inventive hacker and Dev, the angry gang-lord. KD wants them to travel back in time through the time machine he invented and seek out lost treasures and artifacts lost in history. The 3 accomplices, masters of their own skill, begin their adventure through time. But, unknown to them is the real reason why KD is making them do this. Stooges in a larger plot, the show takes us on a fantastic journey of different eras in the Indian history with great action and adventure. As the season unfolds, the mystery behind the real mission begins to unravel. But will their clock run out before the mission is completed?
A single man’s quest to end suffering changed the course of history for a large part of the continent. In ‘Buddha-Sutra’ we examine various facts about the Buddha, his teachings and the spread of Buddhism. This series of animated shorts also explores the impact Buddhism has had on art and architecture, politics and history.
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