Suraag – The Clue
Indian television detective-crime drama series
Suraag – The Clue is an Indian television mystery crime thriller/drama series that aired on DD National from 14 June 1999 to 4 November 2002. The series, starring Sudesh Berry as Inspector Bharat, it was directed by Gautam Adhikari and produced by Shri Adhikari Brothers Limited.
In the drama, Inspector and his assistant Inspector Srivastav formed a formidable partnership in solving crimes, mostly murder mysteries. This series, unlike previous detective-crime dramas in India, involved tackling of one case every episode and seldom were the story or case of one episode continued to the next one. Markand Adhikari was the producer.
After the drama ended, a new series called CID Officer (with same crew and cast) was aired on the same time. It was described by the media as "unofficial extension" of the Suraag.
In 2025, a reboot of the series called Suraag 2.0 was announced with Sai Ketan Rao as Inspector Shaurya Sastri for Waves, OTT platform of Prasar Bharati.
Cast
Main
Sudesh Berry as Crime Branch Inspector Bharat Chattopadhyay and Simon ( Episode 77 and 131)
Amit Kapoor as Crime Branch Sub Inspector Shrivastav
Guest
Phalguni Parekh as Shivani (Episode 1)
Vishnu Sharma as
Professor Banerjee (Episode 1)
Naveen Tyagi ( Episode 48)
Professor Lal ( Episode 72)
Mr Das ( Episode 92)
Mittal Singh (Episode 165)
Ramesh Tiwari as
Mr. Saxena (Episode 1)
D.C.P. (Episode 16 & Episode 130)
Anand Abhyankar as Inspector Mohan (Episode 1)
Raj Premi as
Raj (Episode 1)
Aashish Mehra (Episode 166)
Raghav Saxena (After Plastic Surgery) (Episode 166)
Uday Tikekar as Inspector Ajay Chattopadhyay: Inspector Bharat's father (Episode 1)
Arun Bali as
Hariram "Hariya" (Episode 2)
Mr.
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