Kaun Hai?


Kaun Hai? is an Indian Hindi horror anthology television series produced by Contiloe Pictures and presenting accounts of paranormal activities, science fiction, fantasy and few cases inspired by real-life incidents. It premiered 29 June 2018 on Colors TV and ended on 14 October that same year, lasting two seasons.
Kaun Hai? season 1 featured an episodic cast and finished off with 33 episodes on 16 September 2018 to make way for Kaun Hai? 2, a series for 8 episodes starring real-life couple Vatsal Sheth and Ishita Dutta with Amrapali Gupta in negative role. It was replaced by India's Got Talent 8. Kaun Hai? promos were promoted by most of the Colors TV shows lead stars like Drashti Dhami.

Plot

Season 1

The program is based on that real fear, experienced by people in haunted places.

Season 2

The story starts with a battle of the Daityas and the Puranas because the Daityas wanted to open the door hell and take a mystery knife to kill the Puranas. While the Daityas are Diti, her elder son Hiranyakashipu, and her younger son Hiranyaksha ; the Puranas include Hiranyakashipu's son, Prahlad, and his teacher Anandi, both of which are the devotees of Lord Vishnu. In the battle, Hiranyaksha dies at the hands of Vishnu, and Diti prophesies that he will reincarnate. Later, a child named Yatin Chaudhary is born and is revealed to be Hiranyaksha's reincarnation.
20 Years Later
Yatin has grown up and is a 21 year-old boy, having the powers of Hiranyaksha from his past with the help of Diti, who has kidnapped Yatin's mother Krishika in a secret room, while she magiced on Yatin's father, Inder, that she is his wife and Yatin's mother. Hiranyakashipu meets Yatin and Diti. He tells them to complete the mission to capture the mysterious knife from the door hell.
The next day, Diti sees Vaishnavi, a beautiful innocent girl who is the daughter of Ashish Bajpai. Later it is revealed that Vaishnavi is the reincarnation of the Hindu goddess Vaishnavi, one of Anandi's students. Diti learns that if Yatin will kill Vaishnavi, they will get the mysterious knife.
Diti thinks that the plan to get the mysterious knife from Puranas can be the marriage of Yatin and Vaishnavi. For this, Diti possesses Inder and asks him to tell Ashish for the marriage. Ashish and his wife, Neeta Bajpai, agree for the wedding. However, on the wedding day, Yatin tells Diti that he has fallen in love with Vaishnavi.

Production

Kaun Hai? is created by Abhimanyu Singh and is produced by his company Contiloe Pictures, which also created successful horror shows like Ssshhhh...Phir Koi Hai and for Star One and Zee TV respectively.
Colors programming head, Manisha Sharma said, "Through Kaun Hai? we are going back to the basics and reviving the genre to make our entertainment catalogue robust."
The series has been filmed in various parts of India. Abhimanyu Singh - CEO Contiloe Pictures said "Kaun Hai has been shot extensively across location in various parts of the country such as Kashmir, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Calcutta, Madhya Pradesh to name a few."
First episode was shot in Kashmir and starred Shaleen Bhanot. "It was shot in Kashmir and I am very fascinated by hills and mountains. It was great fun," said Bhanot.

Reception

The first episode of the show received 3.89 million impressions, and ranked at 11th position in the list of top 20 Hindi TV shows.

Response from artists

Some actors experienced spooky experiences while shooting. Bhanot said, "I never used to believe in ghosts until ‘Kaun Hai?’. But I had a couple of spooky experiences while shooting." Speaking about the story, he said that the story was "brilliant and scary". While shooting in a haveli, Ishita Ganguly said that "she experienced an eerie feeling around her at all times". Charu Asopa who shot for the episode "Warehouse No. 4", found its story interesting. "The reason for taking up horror series once again was the intriguing concept of Nightshift", she said. She found the story so scary that she "found it hard to get proper sleep".
Rajkummar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor acted in "Stree visits a haunted studio" aired on 31 August 2018 for the promotion of their film Stree.

Season-1

Every week, two stories are telecasted with one story being split into two episodes and the other story being shown in a single episode. Each story has a different star cast.

Season-2

Main Cast

The story revolves around Yatin, who is the reincarnation of Hiranyaksha. He, along with his mother Diti wants to open the gates of hell located below the Royal Palace that threatens to end mankind and the world as we know it. Vaishnavi is a beautiful and elegant young girl whom Yatin wants to wed, only to later kill her. While Yatin tricks Vaishnavi into falling in love with him, the question remains- Is Vaishnavi
gifted, or cursed?