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ACP Pradyuman (character of C.I.D.)

CID
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Crime Investigation Department
Genre
Created by B. P. Singh
Creative director(s) Christabelle D'souza
Starring See below
Country of origin India
Original language(s) Hindi
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 1,456 (as of August 27, 2017)
Production
Producer(s)
Location(s) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Running time 40–45 minutes approx.
Production company(s) Fireworks Productions
Distributor Sony Pictures Networks
Release
Original network Sony Entertainment Television India
Sony Entertainment Television Asia
Picture format
Original release 21 January 1998 (1998-01-21) – Present
Chronology
Related shows
External links
Website www.setindia.com/in-en/shows/cid/1

CID is an Indian detective television anthology series about Maharashtra and Mumbai's Crime Investigation Department, created by B. P. Singh for Sony Entertainment Television India and Sony Entertainment Television Asia. The series stars Shivaji Satam as ACP Pradyuman, Aditya Srivastav as Senior Inspector Abhijeet, Dayanand Shetty as Senior Inspector Daya, Dinesh Phadnis as Inspector Fredricks and Narendra Gupta as Dr. R. P. Salunkhe. These 5 main characters of the show also share a long-lasting bond by working in the series for almost the same period since its inception on Sony Entertainment Television. The location of the series is set in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Following a pilot episode on 29 April 1997, the series premiered on 21 January 1998 and is the longest running television series in India, having completed 19 years in January 2017, entering the 20th year of its run. The show airs on Saturday and Sunday nights at 10:00 pm IST. The series aired its 1,000th episode on 27 September 2013.

The series is an investigative series consisting of criminal cases that are solved by the Crime Investigation Department. ACP Pradyuman (Shivaji Satam), Senior Inspector Abhijeet (Aditya Srivastav), Senior Inspector Daya (Dayanand Shetty) and Inspector Fredricks (Dinesh Phadnis) are an elite quadro of officers, who pursue criminals through detailed investigation along with their Sub-Inspectors Pankaj and Purvi (Ajay Nagrath and Ansha Sayed) and also seek the help of professional forensic experts Dr. R. P. Salunkhe (Narendra Gupta) and Dr. Tarika (Shraddha Musale) to solve high-profile cases.


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