Naaginn (2007 TV series)

{{about|Naaginn – Waadon Ki Agniparikshaa|other uses|Nagin (disambiguation){{!}}Nagin}}

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| alt_name = Naaginn – Waadon Ki Agniparikshaa

| image = Pg naginn1.jpg

| caption = Promotional logo

| runtime = 24 minutes

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| director = {{ubl|Yash Chauhan|Bhagwan Yadav}}

| writer = {{ubl|C.L.Saini|Mitali}}

| opentheme = "Naaginn" by Richa Sharma

| country = India

| language = Hindi

| network = Zee TV

| first_aired = {{start date|2007|10|05|df=yes}}

| last_aired = {{end date|2009|04|11|df=yes}}

| num_episodes = 219

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Naaginn – Waadon Ki Agniparikshaa ({{translation|Naaginn - Litmus Test}}) is a Hindi television series that aired on Zee TV from 5 October 2007 till 11 April 2009. The show was produced by AK Films.{{cite news|url=http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k9/mar/mar117.php|title=Zee TV axes Naaginn|publisher=Indian Television.com|date=2009-03-12}}

Plot

The show is based on a tale of an ichchhadhari naagin (a female shape-shifting cobra) named Amrita. She transforms herself into a woman to take revenge from the Singh family, which had killed her parents (king and queen of Naaglok) to get the valuable naagmani (cobra gem).

While dying, the queen instructs Amrita to take revenge from the killers and get back the naagmani to revive her parents. She gets married into the same family whose members had killed her parents to take revenge. But the dilemma is that her duty as a wife and her love towards her human husband Arjun comes in the way of her revenge. After a lot of turmoil in her life, Amrita gets pregnant. However, in protecting Amrita and the unborn babies, her husband Arjun dies. All the Singh family members die, except for Arjun's grandmother Triveni. Amrita gives birth to identical twins. Triveni and Surmaya come and kill Amrita with the deadly poison, Vasuki. However, another ichchhadhari naag, Kanishk, helps Amrita who wants to live for her daughters. He advises her to become a ghostly spirit so she can watch over her children. However, she will not be able to touch them and they will not be able to see her. Amrita agrees. Amrita's two daughters are about seven years old and they will look exactly like Amrita when they grow up. One daughter is with Triveni, who treats her miserably, and the other daughter is with a village woman, who soon dies. Triveni goes to the sorcerer Bhairavnath who helps her in trying to bring Amrita to the human world so she can be finished off forever. Season 1 ends with Amrita's ghost being captured.

Cast

Sayantani Ghosh as Amrita Arjun Singh / Shivali Singh / Sanchi Singh (Ichchhadhari naagin)
Khushi Dubey as young Amrita / Shivali Singh / Sanchi Singh (Amrita's Twin Daughters)
Sachin Shroff as Arjun Singh
Manav Gohil as Naagraj
Preeti Puri as Naagrani
Divya Dwivedi as Vishakha
Aruna Irani as Triveni Singh (Maa Sa)
Alihassan Turabi as Rudra Singh
Siddharth Dhawan as Vishnu Singh
Shahbaz Khan as Bhairavnath
Lata Sabharwal / Niyati Joshi as Ratna Vishnu Singh
Neel Patel as Arjun Vishnu Singh (Vishnu and Ratna's Son)
Namrata Thapa as Archana Rudra Singh
Jaskaran Singh Gandhi as Dev
Amar Upadhyay as Vishal
Eijaz Khan as Ranveer
Shaleen Bhanot / Manoj Bidwai as Kanishk / Keshav
Sonia Singh as Kanak Singh
Mayank Anand as Vikram Singh
Jividha Sharma as Saroj Vikram Singh
Adi Irani as Kaka Sa
Manini Mishra as Ambalika
Sachin Verma as Karan Singh
Aanchal Dwivedi as Sneha Karan Singh (Karan's Wife)
Shweta Tiwari as Queen Surmaya
Gajendra Chauhan as Naagdev
Mehul Kajaria as Vishesh
Rakshanda Khan as Mayuri
Sudha Chandran as Maa Pravanchikha
Sulakshana Khatri as Katyani
Dincy Vira as Pari
Jaya Binju as Majharika
Puneet Sachdev as Pawan
Sailesh Gulabani as Agni
Chhavi Mittal as Aastha
Karishma Randhawa as Urja
Supriya Pathak as Sudha
Kiran Kumar as Mr. Singh, Triveni's husband (only in photoframe)
Shalini Sahuta as Mohini
Unknown as Bhujang