CID Returns: OG Cast Shivaji Satam, Dayanand Shetty, Aditya Srivastava Are Back After 6 Years

CID was one of the most popular Indian procedural shows and still remains a must-watch in many viewers' watch lists. The show started airing in 1998 and after 1547 episodes got shut in 2018. It starred several celebrities like Dayanand Shetty, Shivaji Satam, Aditya Srivastava, Alana Sayed, Ajay Nagrath, Janvi Chheda, Shraddha Musale, Sudhanshu Pandey, Gaurav Khanna, Hrishikesh Pandey, Dinesh Phadnis, Tanya Abrol among others. The most loved show is back with new season and makers have even dropped a teaser.

CID back on TV with new season?

Sony TV’s Instagram handle unveiled the teaser of CID which begins with a close up of Dayanand Shetty’s eyes as blood drips from his forehead. Next, it shows Shivaji Satam aka ACP Pradyuman walking out of car carrying an umbrella. The last scene cuts Aditya Srivastava aka Abhijeet. Along with the teaser, the caption, “Mark your calendars, 26th October ko hoga ek dhamakedar promo drop.”

Fans couldn’t keep calm and flooded the comment section as soon as the teaser was dropped on social media. One user wrote, “CID is back, I literally can’t believe this is happening”. Another user wrote, “Mera Bachman wapas agaya!”. “Is this true, CID is back, for real”.

For the unversed, CID went off air on 2018 after successfully airing on Sony TV, making it one of the longest running TV series in India.

Why did CID go off air?

In an interview with Laksh Maheshwari, the popular faces from the show revealed that the show didn’t have a happy ending. After 21 years, the show was called off because of internal politics. Dayanand said, “Somewhere, the show was sabotaged. It started in 2016 and little by little, like a tree that is in the middle of the road, if it shouldn't be cut, people put asafoetida on it. So it dies its own death.”

Shivaji added, “F**k the channel. Why would we close it? Our horse was running. The show was initially scheduled at 10, then 10.40, sometimes 11.5. Like, you get a sore throat slowly.”

When the host asked them, “Putting asafoetida on a fruit tree is not a thing of stabbing yourself”, Dayanand replied, “No, for example - there is a company and how does the company work? The company doesn't work on its own. How will it work? People will live inside it. There is nothing in the company. It is the people running the show.”