Savdhaan India
television series
Savdhaan India – India Fights Back (transl. Attention India! – India Fights Back) is an Indian Hindi-language crime show currently broadcasting on Star Bharat. It was created by Ajit Thakur, Anirban Bhattacharyya The series is hosted by Ashutosh Rana, Tisca Chopra, Sushant Singh, Gaurav Chopra, Mohnish Behl, Pooja Gaur, Saurabh Raj Jain, Shivani Tomar, Pratyusha Banerjee, Hiten Tejwani, Divya Dutta, Sidharth Shukla and Mohit Malik across multiple seasons. It presents dramatized versions of real-life crimes in India and of the struggles of the victims to get justice for their sufferings.
Initially, the series aired as Crime Alert on Life OK. A rebooted version of the series called Savdhaan India – India Fights Back began broadcasting on Life OK on 23 July 2012. Versions of the program (focusing on a particular Indian state/city) have also aired as Savdhaan India – Maharashtra Fights Back, hosted by Shreyas Talpade, Savdhaan India – Mumbai Fights Back, hosted by Atul Kulkarni, Savdhaan India – Punjab Fights Back hosted by saurabh raj jain and Savdhaan India – U.P Fights Back hosted by pooja gaur. The show continued to air on replacement channel of Life OK which is STAR Bharat from 28 August.
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