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Suraag – The Clue is an Indian television detective-crime drama series that aired on DD National from 14 June 1999 to 4 November 2002. The series, starring Sudesh Berry as Inspector Bharat, it was directed by Gautam Adhikari and produced by Shri Adhikari Brothers Limited.
In the drama, Inspector and his assistant Inspector Srivastav formed a formidable partnership in solving crimes, mostly murder mysteries. This series, unlike previous detective-crime dramas in India, involved tackling of one case every episode and seldom were the story or case of one episode continued to the next one. Markand Adhikari was the producer.
After the drama ended, a new series called CID Officer (with same crew and cast) was aired on the same time. It was described by the media as "unofficial extension" of the Suraag.
In 2025, a reboot of the series called Suraag 2.0 was announced with Sai Ketan Rao as Inspector Shaurya Sastri for Waves, OTT platform of Prasar Bharati.
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Cast
Main
Sudesh Berry as Crime Branch Inspector Bharat Chattopadhyay and Simon ( Episode 77 and 131)
Amit Kapoor as Crime Branch Sub Inspector Shrivastav
Pramod Moutho as Brigadier S. K. Thakur (Episode 19)
Neha Joshi as
Nikita Chopra (Episode 20)
Sonali Sharma (Episode 56)
R. S. Chopra as
R. K. Chopra (Episode 20)
Commissioner (Episode 58)
Bob Christo as Smuggling Gang Leader (Episode 21)
Brownie Parashar as
Raghuveer (Episode 21)
Rana (Episode 161)
Beena Banerjee as
Mrs. Dev "Rani Sahiba" (Episode 21)
Professor Sinha (Episode 61)
Kishwar Merchant as
Mandira (Episode 21)
Shaina Bhatnagar (Episode 157)
Pradeep Shukla as
Cultural Minister (Episode 21)
Mr. Bhatia (Episode 42)
Kamal Adib as
Professor Aditya Burman (Episode 21)
Mr. Batra (Episode 171)
Tony Mirchandani as
Ravikant Nair (Episode 22)
Ranjeet Rana (Episode 36)
Kanu Sharma (Episode 56)
Adarsh Gautam as
Raj Malhotra (Episode 23)
Dinesh Prabhakar (Episode 34)
Dr. Deepak Batra (Episode 165)
Usha Bachani as Bobby (Episode 23)
Barkha Madan as
Ruby Ajeet Kumar (Episode 24)
Rehana (Episode 36)
Malati Mahesh Sarang (Episode 42)
Raymon Singh as Sania (Episode 24)
Dharmesh Vyas as
Vikram Nadkar (Episode 24)
Dushyant (Episode 153)
Girija Shankar as Keshav Katre "K. K." (Episode 25)
Dinesh Hingoo as Mr. Roopani (Episode 27)
Rajeev Verma as Judge Jugalkishore Mehta (Episode 28)
Ali Khan as Ranjeet (Episode 29)
Lalit Parimoo as
Shubham Karmakar (Episode 29)
Rajat Mishra (Episode 173)
Maleeka Ghai as Aarti Gupta (Episode 30)
Sheeba Agarwal as
Neelam Kamalkant Sahay (Episode 31)
Christina Columbus (Episode 40)
Lata Haya as Dolly Peter (Episode 31)
B. Shantanu as Dharam Malhotra (Episode 31)
Subbiraj Kakkar as
Narendra Kapoor (Episode 32)
Tahir Khan (Episode 60)
Retired Judge Somraj Dikshit (Episode 163)
Rio Kapadia as Jasvendra Kapoor (Episode 32)
Seema Kapoor as Inspector Shailaja Sohal (Episode 32)
Ajeet Mehra as
Shyam Hemchandani (Episode 32)
Manmohan Ahuja (Episode 154)
Rohini Hattangadi as Judge Sangeeta Shashank Choudhary (Episode 33)
Vineet Kumar as Shreedhar Choudhary (Episode 33)
Jaya Mathur as
Sanjana Alok Srivastav (Episode 35)
Mohini (Episode 162)
Shashi Sharma as Rani Kewal Sinha (Episode 35)
Nawab Shah as
Raj Premi (Episode 35)
Kshitij Kumar (Episode 55)
Kamal Malik as Anand (Episode 36)
Rajesh Puri as
Heerachand (Episode 36)
Champaklal Johri (Episode 157)
Firdaus Mevawala as Inspector (Episode 36)
Suresh Bhagwat as Krishnakant (Episode 37)
Jayshree T. as Lalita (Episode 38)
Shivani Gosain as Simi (Episode 39)
Shraddha Sharma as
Suman (Episode 40)
Priya (Episode 163)
Divya Sameer Kothari (Episode 169)
Suraj Chaddha as Rajeev Ramniklal (Episode 41)
Vaishnavi Mahant as
Sanjana (Episode 27)
Rama Rajeev Ramniklal (Episode 41)
Yogita Sahni (Episode 61)
Zaheed Ali as Gaurav "Guru" (Episode 162)
Vinod Kapoor as Mohanlal (Episode 160)
Amit Behl as
Dharmesh Kumar and Deepak Kumar (dual role) (Episode 54)
Karan Kohli (Episode 158)
Neelam Singh as
Rashmi Rai (Episode 167)
Riya Batra (Episode 171)
Lalit Tiwari as Prakash Lalwani (Episode 168)
Swati Verma as
Naina Jivanlal Khurana (Episode 59)
Shreya Ghosh (Episode 159)
Kaushal Kapoor as Sub Inspector Chauhan (Episode 155)
Rajtilak as Judge Rajgopal (Episode 159)
Gajendra Chauhan as
Jivanlal Khurana (Episode 59)
Inspector Thakur (Episode 155)
Lalitesh Jha as
Niranjan Ahuja (Episode 154)
Advocate Jagat Gulati (Episode 158)
Amit Divetia as Dheeru (Episode 156)
Sanjeev Siddharth as Chhota Qasim (Episode 156)
Aarati Nagpal as Shalini (Episode 174)
Shiva Rindani as Diwakar (Episode 172)
Mona Parekh as
Urmila Niranjan Ahuja (Episode 154)
Kamala Rajat Mishra (Episode 173)
Rajendra Chawla as
Mr. Mehra (Episode 158)
Kamalakant Mishra (Episode 168)
Chetanya Adib as Akash (Episode 149)
Alauddin Khan as Usman (Episode 156)
Parul Yadav as Kanta (Episode 154)
Deepak Bhatia as Raghav (Episode 154)
Gufi Paintal as
R. K. Dhanraj (Episode 153)
Dr. K. K. Ahuja (Episode 157)
Govardhan Lal (Episode 161)
Retired Judge Raichand (Episode 170)
Mithilesh Chaturvedi as Mr. Ahuja (Episode 164)
Anil Nagrath as Mr. Narayan (Episode 164)
Nagesh Bhonsle as Kali Singh (Episode 151)
Vaidehi Amrute as Ketki Rajat Verma (Episode 149)
Rahul Sood as Meghraj Gupta (Episode 164)
Manav Sohal as
Guddu Dhanraj (Episode 153)
Prem (Episode 160)
Advocate Krishnakant Bhatia (Episode 166)
Ranjeet Ahuja (Episode 172)
Shashi Puri as Dharmesh Bajaj (Episode 162)
Bhumika Seth as Devika Thakral (Episode 153)
Ashok Banthia as Mr. Thakral (Episode 153)
Raja Kapse as Rajdev (Episode 153)
Suneel Sinha as Rajat Verma (Episode 155)
Pankaj Dheer as Rajeev Ranjan (Episode 156)
Ravi Gossain as Rakesh Kumar "Rocky" (Episode 159)
Sumeet Kaul as Harish Lal (Episode 161)
Sanjay Swaraj as
Manoj Kumar Singh (Episode 165)
Bhavesh Raichand (Episode 170)
Govind Khatri as
Mukesh (Episode 166)
Suneel Banerjee (Episode 173)
Manish Garg as
Sanjeev Rai (Episode 167)
Jagat (Episode 171)
Bakul Bhatt as
Assistant Sub Inspector Diwakar (Episode 168)
Balveer (Episode 170)
Suneel Mattoo as Alok Verma (Episode 169)
Raju Shrestha as Aniruddh Kumar (Episode 170)
Manish Sharma as Raj (Episode 171)
Vijay Bhatia as Vikas "Vicky" (Episode 171)
Rupali Ganguly as Shweta (Episode 172)
Ranjeev Verma as Mr. Kohli (Episode 173)
Naveen Bawa as Rakesh (Episode 174)
Ep 4: Mysterious death of the brides:
Kuldeep Mallik as Shreekant
Savita Prabhune as Shreekant's mother
Sharad Vyas as Chuttan
Reena Kapoor as Sunanda
Mahaveer Shah as Ramakant
Hemant Choudhary as Ramakant's son
Rajdev Jamdade as Sub Inspector Dhardhar
Ep 5: The confidential file:
Imran Khan as Imran Khan
Raza Murad as Retired Major Hamidullah Khan
Ragesh Asthana as Salim
Jeetendra Trehan as Captain Shaheed Khan
Anita Hassanandani as Razia Khan
Ep 6: Woman visitor on a rainy night:
Rishabh Shukla as Shreekant
Deepshikha Nagpal as Inspector Sneha Verma
Manorama as neighbour
Sharmilee Raj as Sandhya
Ep 54: The hand with six fingers:
Amit Behl as Dharmesh Kumar and Deepak Kumar (dual role)
Neelam Singh as Anjali
Ep 55: Attack on Film star
Nawab Shah as Kshitij Kumar
Amit Bhalla as Film director Prasad
Suhas Khandke as DK Gupta
Sharmilee Raj as Alisha
Kuldeep Sharma as Champak
Ep 56: A murder inside closed room:
Pradeep Shukla as Virendra Sharma
Neha Joshi as Sonali Sharma
Sunil Nagar as Nirmal
Tony Mirchandani as Kanu Sharma
? as servant Ram Bharose
Resham Arora as Advocate Rohit Jha
Ep 57: The tattoo murders
Lalit Tiwari as Raghuveer Chaudhary
Goga Kapoor as Awgadh Bangalee
Nayan Bhatt as Nanda Dinkar Pandey
Ep 58: To catch a smuggler:
Rammohan Sharma as Keshav Chawla / Gajendra Singh Dongra
Ragesh Asthana as Kailash Keshav Chawla
Kainaaz Parvees as Nita Kailash Chawla / Nazneen
R. S. Chopra as Commissioner
Ep 59: Murder on a rainy night (Release date: 24 July 2000)
Surendra Pal as Jivanlal Khurana / Dr. Jagan Nath
Zahid Ali as Manoj Pandey
Kishori Shahane as Poonam Jivanlal Khurana
Gajendra Chauhan as Jivanlal Khurana
Swati Verma as Naina Jivanlal Khurana
Trivia: The starting of the episode is similar to Kaun?
Ep 60: Painting of the missing boys (Release date: 31 July 2000)
Subbiraj Kakkar as Tahir Khan (based on M. F. Husain)
Pradeep Kabra as Usman Rizvi
Dharmendra Rana as Bobby Bhatt
? as Sunil Diwan
Ep 61: The stolen idol (Release date: 7 August 2000)
Beena Banerjee as Professor Sinha
Vaishnavi Mahant as Yogita Sahni
Yusuf Hussain as Jagan Dixit
? as Minister
Suraag – The Clue is an Indian television detective-crime drama series that aired on DD National from 14 June 1999 to 4 November 2002. The series, starring Sudesh Berry as Inspector Bharat, it was directed by Gautam Adhikari and produced by Shri Adhikari Brothers Limited.
