One of the most popular Indian television show, CID, which aired for the first time in 1977 will be taking an intermittent break from October 28. It is said to be the first crime-based show on Indian television.
It might come as shock for people who have been watching for years, because, it is going off air from October 28.
Completing 20 years of CID, Sony Entertainment issued a statement, “Having completed 20 years, CID is the longest-running cult show on Sony Entertainment Television. It has been a great journey so far, along with Fireworks Productions, and CID will now take an intermittent break starting October 28,” IANS reported.
The crime show stars Shivaji Satam (ACP Pradyuman), Senior Inspectors Aditya Srivastava (Abhijeet) and Dayanand Shetty (Daya) in lead roles. The last episode of the show will be aired on October 27.
However, the makers are likely to return with a brand new season of CID. “The show will gear up for a renewed season with a lot more contextual cases, keeping alive the thrill that the audience has experienced so far,” the statement further said.
It seems the Internet is not happy with their break. Tweets like “Don’t end CID” and “End of an era” have been posted. That’s not all. People are quite upset since the news broke. The fans of the show have even started a #SaveCID campaign on social media. Expressing what the show means to them, they want Sony Entertainment to retain this show. Take a look at some of the tweets:
Speaking about the CID show, Dayanand Shetty told The Times Of India, “We were in our 21st year and had we shot for a few more episodes, we would have entered our 22nd year. It is quite an unfortunate thing to happen as we were shooting like always and suddenly we were informed by our producer that the shooting has been called off indefinitely because there were issues with the channel.”
Since 1997 till now, CID has successfully aired almost 1,500 episodes. The show had undergone several changes with the cast and story line-up, but the plot remained the same. Shivaji Satam, Aditya Srivastava and Dayanand Shetty were joined by actors like Dinesh Phadnis, Narendra Gupta and Shraddha Musale.
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