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7 Intriguing Facts about Popular Hindi TV Show CID to Blow Your Mind


Hindi TV’s most iconic and longest-running show ‘CID’ aired its last episode in 2018 and it won’t be an understatement to say that we all have grown up watching this amazing crime-thriller show on Sony TV. Ran for almost 20 years, its iconic characters like ACP Pradyumn, Daya, Abhijeet, and Dr. Salunke literally became the household names.
It’s for this TV show that crime thriller-based Hindi TV shows made a permanent place for themselves. I am sure if you have a HDMI box for TV, catching the re-runs of this TV show will definitely interest you. Before we entirely write off the memories of this amazing TV show, here are some of the mind blowing facts about CID that will surprise you:

  1. Shivaji Satam aka ACP Pradyuman worked as a cashier with Central Bank of India for 23 years before he realised that acting is his bigger passion and left his job to pursue his passion. So much for his love for acting that he was even performing for some theatre shows while working in bank.
  2. His acting career started with performing in Marathi movies and TV shows before he was spotted by makers of CID to play our favourite detective.
  3. The first-ever episode of now named “CID” was shot 6 years before it finally aired. The pilot episode was shot in 1992 and was named as Kissa Zahar Ka: Part 1 which finally aired on TV in 1998.
  4. Popular and critically acclaimed film director Ashutosh Gowariker and Hindi movie actress Yami Guatam also appeared in the early episodes of CID which clearly indicates how popular this show was way back in 90s.
  5. This show even made its name registered in Limca Book of Records for filming an entire episode in single cut in October 2004. The entire cast and crew shot relentlessly for this 111 minute-long episode which was then aired on TV without any commercial break to maintain the tempo.
  6. Airing for the first time in 1998, CID is the longest-running show in the history of Indian television and ran for almost two decades. Definitely, the news of its last episode came as a big blow to the audience and its last episode had the highest-ever recorded TRPs. Equip your LED TV with set top box and catches the re-runs to not miss a single episode!
  7. Not many know that it is one of the few Indian shows that were also shot on international locations like London, Canada, Switzerland, and more. Not only that, leading actors like Shahrukh Khan Kareena Kapoor, Aamir Khan, and Salman Khan have appeared on the show to promote their films.



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