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This day in Indian TV: CID was launched
On this day, 21 January, 1998, CID's first ever episode aired on Sony Entertainment television. It has run on air for 16 years, making it the longest running show on Indian TV. The show was a weekly crime thriller covering the lives of the CID team as they went about solving murder mysteries, terrorist threats, etc.
Over the years, the show has entered an unreal realm of story lines - killers with magical powers, fictional monsters and the likes. The audiences, surprising still regularly follow the show and it's one of Sony Entertainment's key programs. Highly dramatized, the show that started as a 1/2 hour weekly, became an hour long airing twice a week on the channel.
The series is based on a team of detectives belonging to the Crime Investigation Department in Mumbai. The team consists of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Pradyuman, Senior Inspectors Abhijeet, Daya, Rajat, Inspector Fredricks and Sachin and Inspector Purvi, Shreya and Sub-Inspectors Nikhil and Pankaj. They are aided by forensic experts Dr. Salunkhe and Dr. Tarika.
Due to CID's popularity, it has been dubbed in various Indian languages. A Bengali version called CID Kolkatta Bureau has been produced to air on Sony Aath. It even airs in Pakistan on Apna Channel and Geo Kahani. A lot of Bollywood films have also been promoted on the show like Aamir, Wanted, Rowdy Rahtode, Heroine, Talaash and Once Upon a Time in Mumbai Dobaara.
Kudos to the CID and Sony teams to have produced such a long-running show!
