Kaali – Ek Agnipariksha

This article is about the crime thriller of Star Plus. For the soap opera on the same channel, see Kaali – Ek Punar Avatar.

Kaali – Ek Agnipariksha is an Indian crime thriller series that aired on StarPlus from 13 September 2010 to 18 March 2011.^[1] The series is inspired from Ruchika Girhotra case.^[2]

Kaali – Ek Agnipariksha
Genre	Crime thriller
Created by	Mrinal Jha Abhigyan Jha
Directed by	Yash Chauhan Sushen Bhatnagar Vicky Chauhan
Starring	See below
Narrated by	Mrinal Kulkarni
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of episodes	136
Production
Producers	Mrinal Jha Abhigyan Jha
Running time	24 minutes
Original release
Network	StarPlus
Release	13 September 2010 (2010-09-13) – 18 March 2011 (2011-03-18)

Synopsis

Mehta family, a simple and middle-class family with middle-class values and dreams composed of Veerender Mehta and his two children 16-year-old Rachna and 11-year-old Rahul. Rachana is a girl with big dreams who is sure to make a mark in Badminton one day. Rachana's cousin, Anu is her best friend. Rachana is all through encouraged in her pursuit of playing Badminton by her family. And it's during this pursuit that the menacing bahubali of her town- Thakral, lays his eyes on her. It is from here on the journey of Rachana who decides to fight back against the big and mighty Thakral. Anu stands by Rachana and they remain deeply connected through the terror and trauma that Thakral unleashes on Rachana and her family. The story is the tale of Rachana who belongs to a small, peaceful and happy family and what happens to her and her family when disaster strikes in the form of a monster of a man called Thakral the Bahubali of Ghaziabad.

Cast

• Ashutosh Rana as Keshav Thakral, character inspired by Shambu (S.P.S. Rathore).
• Swati Kapoor as Rachana, character inspired by Ruchika, an Indian badminton player.^[3]
• Nia Sharma as Anu, Rachna's cousin and her best-friend
• Varun Jain as Arjun
• Arif Zakaria as Virendra, Rachana's father
• Perin Malde as Rahul, Rachana's brother
• Vipra Rawal as Rajni
• Pranitaa Pandit as Janvi Thakral, Keshav Thakral's daughter
• Akshay Anand as Amar
• Dimple Inamdar as Rajshree
• Neelu Kohli as Babli
• Mrinal Kulkarni as Sushma Rai / Aditi Chaudhary
• Anuj Thakur as Mohit
• Aham Sharma as Aditya Ahlawat
• Sonali Kulkarni as Narrator^[4]
• Aarun Nagar as Birju
• Dinesh Sharma as Siddharth