Arjun (TV series)


Arjun, also known as Har Yug Mein Aayega Ek – Arjun, is an Indian Hindi-language action crime television series which aired on Star Plus from 11 August 2012 through 23 February 2014 on Monday and Friday evenings. It is the fifth television series of 4 Lions Films.
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Overview

This series is about a rebellious cop, Arjun Rawte who has been transferred to the Emergency Task Force, with the hope of nabbing Sikandar. Arjun, a fun-loving and caring guy who changed completely after witnessing the brutal murder of his wife in front of him. This made him start living a reclusive life. Sikandar had murdered his beloved wife, Roshni on their Anniversary night. Being drugged and beaten by the former, Arjun could do nothing rather than witness her dying before his eyes. Since then for the past two years he is on the quest of bringing justice to his wife by finding her killer who the department refused to believe existed.
The ETF team initially included ETF Chief ACP Sameer Rathod, ACP Arjun Suryakant Rawte, 2nd in command, Riya Mukherjee, a research specialist, Shreekant Sen aka Shree, the technical expert and Commando Chandrakant Patil, fondly called Chotu. The show deals with crimes such as human trafficking, organ trade, kidnapping murder, and honour killing. The three juniors were scared of Arjun's anger and the rivalry of the two seniors but had immense respect for both of them.
ACP Sameer and Arjun were once best friends but now Sameer blames Arjun for Roshni's death who was a good friend of his. Both of them were at loggerheads with each other due to this incident and also their way of working since Sameer believed in teamwork and posses good leadership qualities while on the other hand, Arjun is often seen putting his life at risk to solve cases. Though he may hate Arjun, Sameer's care for him is still evident.
Throughout the journey of solving cases, Arjun was annoyed by Riya's inability to shoot and considered her incompetent for ETF. He also tried to help her overcome the fear of shooting by putting himself in danger. Due to this, Riya respect him a lot. Riya is soon martyred when she swallows xora virus to save the entire city and that's when Arjun realizes her true potential. She is posthumously awarded for her bravery.
After her death, the team continues their journey of solving cases when they are joined by new members Ayesha, former undercover police officer, Sakshi, ex-crime journalist and Liza, forensic expert who was also Shree's classmate in college. Sakshi seem to have a crush on Arjun but Arjun never let anyone break the walls of his heart after Roshni died. Ayesha and Sameer seemed to be dating each other. Soon, Sameer and Shree are transferred.
Although Arjun appeared to be tough and rude to his team, but in his heart cared for them and considered them his family. He becomes close to them and realizes their importance in his life.
In one of the organ trading cases involving a minister, the ETF team is mislead into believing that Karan, a history sheeter who used to steal trucks is involved. Chotu, Liza, Aayesha and Sakshi are killed during this case and Arjun is held responsible for this tragedy. Taking the help of Karan, he proves himself innocent. Arjun is torn between right and wrong. Realising that the department failed to support him and his team, he resigns from his position marking the end of ETF.
His journey of providing justice to the innocent continues with Karan and Simran as a private investigator, while taking the help of Anjali, an 8 year old tech savy kid.
The series end with the reunion of Arjun and Sameer as the latter gets access to Sikander's information which he shares with Arjun. He realises that truth of Sikander's existence and forgives Arjun.

Cast

;Season 1
;Recurring Cast
;Cameos

Critical reception

DNA India said that it has good action scenes, but Malhotra was "a little stiff".