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Khoj - Parchaiyo Ke Uss Paar

Khoj - Parchaiyo Ke Uss Paar (खोज: परछाइयों के उस पार) is a 2024 Hindi-language psychological thriller web series directed by Prabal Baruah and released as a ZEE5 Original on 27 December 2024. It follows Ved Khanna, a man with paranoia whose wife Meera disappears and then returns, while he insists the woman who comes back is an impostor.¹

Key fact	Detail
Format	Hindi web series, 7 episodes of roughly 23 to 25 minutes each, in the thriller, drama, and suspense genres¹^•²
Release	27 December 2024, worldwide premiere on ZEE5¹
Director / writer	Prabal Baruah; story, screenplay, and dialogue by Ajaydeep Singh¹^•³
Lead cast	Sharib Hashmi as Ved Khanna, Anupriya Goenka as Meera Khanna, Aamir Dalvi as Amol Sathe⁴
Production	Juggernaut Productions; producers include Samar Khan, Aditya Pittie, and Pragati Deshmukh⁵^•⁶
Source material	Remake of the 1989 film Khoj starring Rishi Kapoor, Kimi Katkar, and Naseeruddin Shah⁴
Reception	IMDb rating 4.7/10 from about 330 votes; Filmfare critic rating 2.5/5⁷^•⁸

Spoilers

Plot

The story begins on Ved's birthday, when his wife Meera goes missing and his life unravels. While searching for her he deals with a dismissive police officer and a shocking revelation about his wife's identity. A woman then appears claiming to be Meera, and she can supply intimate details of their life together, but Ved refuses to accept her claim and insists she is an impostor.¹

The premise sets up a question the series sustains across its seven episodes: who is telling the truth, the man or the woman? Ved, described in promotional material as suffering from paranoia, doubts his own sanity as a skeptical cop questions him, and bizarre events and clues blur the line between reality and deception.⁹^•¹⁰ The final episode, "Kahaani Uss Raat Ki", reveals secrets connected to Meera's life and her disappearance, including that she was the one who took a child named Tia away.¹¹^•¹

Cast and characters

Sharib Hashmi plays Ved Khanna, the husband at the center of the search; Anupriya Goenka plays Meera Khanna, the woman whose identity is in question; and Aamir Dalvi plays Amol Sathe, the police inspector who finds Meera and brings her back.⁴^•⁸ The supporting cast includes Himakshi Borah as "Real Meera", Ebadat Hussain as Tia, Kriti Garg as Aditi, Ravi Kant Sinha as Devraj, and Raviraa Bhardwaj as Dr. Nigam.⁴

Production and release

The series was produced by Juggernaut Productions for ZEE5, with Samar Khan listed as producer on IMDbPro and Aditya Pittie and Pragati Deshmukh credited by the streaming guide OTTAsia.⁵^•¹²^•⁶ Shanu Singh Rajput is credited as cinematographer.¹² The ZEE5 trailer was published on 16 December 2024 and had drawn about 19.7 million views on YouTube.⁵

All seven episodes were released together on 27 December 2024 in India and Australia.¹^•¹³ The series streams on ZEE5 and VI movies and tv, free with ads on both platforms, and is also available through the Tata Play Binge bundle.⁹^•⁶

Reception

The IMDb weighted rating stood at 4.7/10 from about 330 votes, with an unweighted mean of 4.5; per-episode ratings ranged from 4.6 to 5.1.⁷ Critics were cooler. Devesh Sharma of Filmfare gave it 2.5/5, calling the premise compelling but faulting the execution: he described the series as feeling like a stage play, with a single-location setting, dialogue-heavy sequences, and pacing problems from stretching a single-line plot over seven episodes, while crediting Sharib Hashmi, Anupriya Goenka, and Aamir Dalvi with good performances.⁸ A review by Ravi Sharma at Bollywood Helpline likewise found the twists predictable and the plot formulaic, but noted that the series addresses themes including women's rights, the consequences of domestic violence, and the lasting impact of childhood trauma.¹⁴ A Daily Pioneer review summarized the series as falling flat in the mystery and thriller genre despite commendable performances.¹⁵

Relationship to the 1989 film

IMDb lists the series as a remake of Khoj (1989), a film starring Rishi Kapoor, Kimi Katkar, and Naseeruddin Shah, and its trivia section identifies that film as the source.⁴ The Bollywood Helpline review observes that viewers who know the 1989 film may anticipate where the story is going.¹⁴

References

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026