ACP Pradyuman’s thought provoking query to one his subordinates, either Abhijeet or Daya is soon becoming part of our collective history which will stay in memory long after the show goes off-air!

Off-air? Like that is even possible! Going by the way the show is going from strength to strength, it is unimaginable that a detective series like CID can ever go off-air, not in next 50-60 years at least. Yeah, the actors portraying the famous ACP or other major officers might change, but the show will live on and on.

CID Team

After all, it is the longest running show in Indian Television history. This January it completed as many as 18 long years entertaining its die hard loyal fans who don’t miss even a single episode of this series. It is no small feat considering the attention span of people these days is shorter than the blink of an eye! And no, the end is nowhere in sight as the show is still raking decent and respectable TRP’s for channel to even consider shutting it off.

World over there are various crime based shows like Castle, Criminal Minds, CSI etc, but they all follow a season format where-in they run for a particular span of time and then go off air to return with a fresh season. Our CID is different from all such show since it hasn’t taken a break ever. It keeps on solving one mystery after the other, catching one criminal after another in its quest to solve complicated crimes in a city like Mumbai.

The thing which baffles everyone is that without having superior production qualities or path-breaking scientific nuances used in crime, like Hollywood shows, CID still has loyal fan base. The cases are very much Indian, have a local flavour and bring out the local relatable factor with an added melodramatic twists which do attract lot of children if not all adults. That could be one of the most defining factors for the show as children love this puzzle-solving team of detectives who can solve any and every crime under the sun with their combined intellect and physical powers!

A show’s popularity in today’s times can be easily gauged by how much it is talked about on social media and CID wins on that benchmark hands down! Millions of jokes and spoofs on the characters are circulated day after day and no matter how repetitive and old they may sound, they still succeed in bringing a smile or a heart-felt laughter. That sums up its popularity!

At this stage, we don’t know if changing the format of the show, making it more engaging or classier in comparison to their western counterparts will help the show or not.

But who knows, a slight change might bring in a more mature audience! If not, kids still love it and will continue to do so!

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Crime in a society is as old as the concept of society itself. Efforts to swipe off the crime from the face of the planet are on since the beginning of time, but fail to succeed.

However, in current times, Real Crime Shows On Indian TV have opened a new channel of revenues globally and India isn’t far behind in commercializing crime, without being a part of it in any manner!

Yes, we are talking about the growth of crime-based shows which tend to bring the whole process of a crime right in your living rooms. Fictionalizing the whole process, right from the thought, devices used, to the actual act of crime is documented in an interesting adrenaline-raising format and then fed to gullible audiences in the garb of showing something so as to avoid further crime happening.

The show which first caught the eyeballs was India’s Most Wanted way back in 1999 and became a huge hit. Following its footsteps are shows like Crime Patrol-Dastak, Saavdhan India and the latest to join them is Code Red on Colors, hosted by evergreen actress of Hindi TV, Sakshi Tanwar.

Crime petrol Dastak

Is the new show different? Something special about it? Will it help the common man and specifically youth to do something different? All these and many more questions are being asked as to how such shows work for the benefit of the society. Frankly speaking, there are no parameters or benchmarks or evaluative, analytical studies to show the impact these have on society. The only thing that’s for sure is happening is that the producers and channels showing these shows are making money off them. Reason being the audience’s appetite for edgy shows which showcase the real world as it is.

Saavdhan India

However, the newness is soon disappearing as far as the content is concerned. After just a few stories, each show starts looking like the same covering same real happenings, in almost the same manner. Code Red has started with an interesting premise of motivating people to stand up against crime, but is it enough of a differentiator? In this rat race of TRP’s, is it ok to sensationalize crime without offering something substantial to prevent it? Well, for now this is what we have in terms of entertainment. This is an idea straight away lifted from Hollywood shows which work on the same fundamentals.

Code Red

The only wish and hope we have is that these shows create a real awareness, help people to prevent crime and remain more alert in making sure that no crime in their surroundings go unnoticed!

Looking forward to some intellectually stimulating and interesting crime-based shows which make a difference in day to day life!

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