Power Of Paanch

Power Of Paanch is an Indian Hindi-language superhero television series.^[1] Produced by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor under Balaji Telefilms, it stars Riva Arora, Jaiveer Juneja, Aditya Arora, Anubha Arora, Bianca Arora, Yash Sehgal, Barkha Bisht and Urvashi Dholakia.^[2] The series premiered on 17 January 2025 on Disney+ Hotstar.^[3] It ended on 4 April 2025 after completing 50 episodes.

Power Of Paanch
Release poster
Genre	Superhero
Written by	Maithili Desai
Screenplay by	Arshad Jafri Sumrit Sahri
Directed by	Iqbal Rizvi Jeetu Arora
Creative director	Prabhjyot Gujraal
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of episodes	50
Production
Producers	Ekta Kapoor Shobha Kapoor
Cinematography	Raju Gauli Ankush Ram Birajdar
Editor	Uday Chaudhary
Running time	19–26 minutes
Production company	Balaji Telefilms
Original release
Network	Disney+ Hotstar
Release	17 January (2025-01-17) – 4 April 2025 (2025-04-04)

Plot

Bela Luthra, an 18-year old girl, and her mother Tabu Luthra, a single parent, live in Besar, Maharashtra. One night, Tabu leaves for a task with her research team, prompting Bela to search the restricted areas of her home. She finds her mother's connections with the town of Panchgiri and the age-old myth claiming that the five elements secretly lead a human life. While the parents of the current power-holders of the four elements search the "Fifth element", Bela travels to Panchgiri and sets on a mission to unveil the secrets of Panchgiri.

The story tells that on their 16th birthday powers of the parents are inherited to their first born child. As per this Ranveer, Ali , Baggu and Jhanvi become the power holder of the four elemental powers (air,fire,water and earth respectively).

To find her mother, Bela travels to Panchgiri. She gets to know that Tanu Shergill is her mother's twin sister. Tanu tries to damage Bela's hands by a car accident which fails. Bela soon finds out that she is the Earth element as she was born three months before Jhanvi, who fakes being a power holder.It is soon found out that Tanu's younger son Kai is the "Life element" when he comes back to life after dying from an accident. It is also revealed that Param gave Kai to Tanu when she faced a miscarriage during her second child delivery. Karthik reveals that on a day when five stars come in a straight line was suitable for opening the ancient box with help of the five elements. Tanu plans with Param to secretly damage Bela's hands to get the powers transferred to Jhanvi. But everyone finds out that Jhanvi was not the Earth element. Finally the box is opened, with a book inside it written in an ancient language which only Tabu could read. Bela has a fight with Tanu and disappears for 3 weeks. The Blue Jeans Cafe opens in Panchgiri.

Baggu and Ali face love complications due to Adeeba being in a relationship with Ali. Ali faces a accident with a mysterious girl and reaches Panchgiri Inn. Soon, Ali and Baggu find out that Bela and her best friend Ahaan are working there. The mysterious girl disappears from the hospital to the surprise of Aasma(Ali's mom and DGP of Panchgiri). Jhanvi and Karan grow closer and Ahaan gets a job at Blue Jeans Cafe. Karthik tells Aasma that evil powers have arrived.

Mr. Sidh a industrialist instructs his adopted daughter myra to go close with ranveer. Myra and Mr. Sidh manipulates ranveer that he could bring the potential power of the five elements. Meanwhile bela is searching for her mother tabu (bela's mother) when a unknown girl tanya takes admission in the college. Bela grow anxious when tanya grow fast friendship with his friends. Meanwhile adeeba Blackmails ali and his mother due to that reason ali had to breakup with baggu.

Mr. Sidh opens that Ahaan (Bela's best friend) is his son and karan too. He instruct ahaan that all the five elements should touch the crystal so that the crystal absorb the energies of the five elements. In the semi final and in the final match ranveer uses his power and win the final match. Karan told bela that he knows about the five elements and he wants to save them but Mr. Sidh and Myra captured karan and Bela and Bela get to know about Ahaan's identity. They traveled to Sidh's house where Ranveer and his friends were enjoying party. Myra and Ahaan tie Bela, Ranveer, Kai, and karan when Kai's real powers get opened.

Aasma, Kartik, and Tanu arrives in Sidh's house meanwhile Ranveer uses his power to get the crystal from Kai. Bela and Baggu attacked on Ranveer while Kai runs with the crystal. Aasma arrived in time and save the kids and arrested Mr sidh meanwhile Myra runs away. Bela and Karan had a romantic moment.

Bela gets to know the truth of Tanya that she is her mother for Kai's powers. Bela, Ranveer, Ali, Baggu, and Kai gets to know about the backstory of elements and they must defeat the evil forces for their immortality. Aasma started to train the elements to face vin. Tanu becomes the dean of the High crest university and shocked to see the new donor payal Chauhan and wealthy rich lady. Tanu and Aasma tries to uncover Payal Chauhan's true identity meanwhile Ranveer started to work on blue jeans cafe with Bela and Karan. Payal Chauhan's growing influence to buy the High crest university makes Kai and the other students to protest against the selling. Bela finds out about Payal Chauhan's true identity meanwhile Ahaan rejoins the college which shocks the elements.

In prom proposal day Baggu meets with a new student Zain, Ali gets jealous of Baggu and Zain. The elements doing their training but they can't able coordinate with each other. Meanwhile Tanu gets to know about Tanya's real identity, Kai uses his powers and transform Tanya into Tabu, Tanu gets angry on Tabu. Tanu tells that Tabu killed that girl named Poonam mishra that night that force to leave Tabu from Panchgiri. Bela, Ranveer and Karan clash over trust and secrets. Kai returns to the High crest but doing plan to protest against the college selling.

While planning about the protest while he got a box belongs to his grandfather, Kai's grandmother told him about the box and his grandfather. Tabu comes to his house to meet with her mother and to take important documents of her father, while Ranveer confesses to Bela that he has feelings for her, Bela gets worried what should she do now. Finally Bela breaks her relationship with Karan for Ranveer and Bela and Karan have an emotional conversation, Karan gets angry on Bela's decision. While Ranveer came back to take his charger from the training spot while he sees Tabu there that she is searching something by this Ranveer suspects Tabu, but after Bela gets to know about this she gets angry with Ranveer meanwhile Payel, Ahaan and, Myra plans to take down the elements. Bela, Ranveer, Ali and Baggu get fight with each other while kartik slams them and told that the danger has comed. While Kai gets shock to see Adeeba and Ahaan conversation with each other Kai tries to call Baggu but he fails when he gets senseless he see that Payal kidnapped him.

Bela Ranveer Ali Baggu and their family members get tensed not not finding Kai while the elements have to get ready for the fight. Bela Ranveer Ali Baggu

Cast

• Riva Arora^[4] as Bela Luthra: Tabu's daughter; an 18-year old girl from Besar, who houses the powers of the "Earth" element. Still unaware of the truth of her newfound powers, she is on a mission to unveil the secrets of Panchgiri. (2025-present)

• Anubha arora as Adeeba; Ali’s girlfriend who is madly in love with him, while, Ali wants to break up with her. She’s unaware of the world of powers and navigates her way through the secrets, finding her path to Ali. (2025-present)

• Jaiveer Juneja^[4] as Ranveer Deol: Param's son; Kai's half-brother; Ali's best-friend; Bela's admirer; Jhanvi's situationship partner; an 18-year old boy, who houses the powers of the "Wind" element. He appears to be a playboy, but is a sensitive person. (2025-present)
• Aditya Arora^[4] as Ali Mazhar: Aasma's son; Ranveer's best-friend; Baggu's admirer; an 18-year old boy, who houses the "Fire" element. He is upset of his relationship with Adeeba and wants to end it. He often loses control on his powers. (2025-present)
• Bianca Arora^[4] as Baggu: Kartik's daughter; Ali's love-interest; an 18-year-old girl who houses the "Water" element. She always calms Ali and guides him through tricky situations. (2025-present)
• Barkha Bisht^[4] in dual roles as
  • Tanu Shergill: Tabu's twin sister; Jhanvi's mother; Kai's adoptive mother; the former power-holder of the "Earth" element. She hates Tabu owing to the latter getting more attention from her father. She plans to send Bela back to Besar. (2025-present)
  • Tabu Luthra: Tanu's twin sister; Bela's mother; the former power-holder of the "Earth" element. She left her family years ago and lives away from Panchgiri to keep her daughter unknown to its secrets. (2025-present)
• Urvashi Dholakia^[4] as DGP Aasma Mazhar: a Haryanvi police officer; Ali's mother; the former power-holder of the "Fire" element. She is a strict mother and wants Ali to learn controlling his powers. (2025-present)
• Pankaj Vishnupurikar as Kartik: a scientist; Baggu's father; the former power-holder of the "Water" element.(2025-present)
• Tanvi Gadkari as Jhanvi Shergill: Tanu's daughter; Kai's sister; an 18-year-old girl, who fakes being the power holder of the "Earth" element under her mother's influence, but gets exposed. She is in a situationship with Ranveer, but secretly wants to get into a relationship with him. She dislikes Bela as the latter being older than her, gets the powers. (2025-present)
• Yash Sehgal^[4] as Kai Shergill: Param's estranged son; Ranveer's half-brother; Jhanvi's adoptive brother; a 15-year old boy, who houses the "Life" element. He gets upset of his mother's constant nagging. He bonds well with Bela and announces his homosexuality when she encourages her. (2025-present)
• Inder Bajwa as Param Deol: Ranveer's father; Kai's estranged father; a popular actor originally from Punjab, who shows careless approach towards Kartik's speculations. (2025-present)
• Omar Kandhari as Ahaan Sharma: Bela's best-friend (2025-present)
• Nikhat Khan as Sharmila: Tabu and Tanu's mother; Bela and Jhanvi's grandmother; Kai's adoptive grandmother; a generous lady who supports Bela in her tiff with Tanu. (2025-present)
• Umesh Pherwani as Akshat Shergill: Tanu's husband; Jhanvi's father; Kai's adoptive father. (2025-present)

Production

The series was announced on Disney+ Hotstar.^[5] The trailer of the series was released on 13 January 2025.^[6]

Reception

Archika Khurana of The Times of India rated the series 3/5 stars and wrote “ Power of Paanch is a decent attempt at exploring the supernatural mystery genre. With its talented cast and intriguing premise, it offers mild excitement and a refreshing departure from typical slice-of-life content.”^[7] Risha Ganguly of Times Now gave the show 3 stars.^[8]