Season 1/India

Season 1 of $$ began in October on Colors.

Summary

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Differences from the original
For the most part, the series closely hews to the plot of the American series, substituting Mumbai for Los Angeles and featuring the fictional Anti Terrorist Unit. There are a number of significant changes from the American series:
 * Names, places, and nationalities are adjusted to reflect the new setting. The primary antagonists are members of a Tamil separatist group called the LTFE, inspired by the real-life Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE for short, commonly referred to as the "Tamil Tigers") in Sri Lanka. The LTFE leader, Ravindran, and his sons Raja and Bala play a similar role as Victor Drazen and his sons in the original first season.
 * The political story arc, which followed David Palmer discovering a cover-up perpetrated by his own wife and children, is entirely rewritten; Singhania is unmarried, and instead contends with a scandal involving his mother and siblings that is directly connected to the threat against his life. Over the course of the season, it is revealed that Aditya's brother-in-law, as well as one of his family members - his mother, cousin Prithvi, or sister Divya - is in league with the masterminds of the assassination attempt. In the finale, Divya is exposed as the inside connection and arrested.
 * Aditya has only one press secretary, Pooja, who appears to have parts of Patty Brooks, Elizabeth Nash and Jessica Abrams written into her role- but unlike Patty, she does not spy or have feelings for Aditya, and like Elizabeth, was secretly seeing Bala (the Alexis Drazen role equivalent).
 * The journalist Mehek Ahuja, based on Maureen Kingsley, also has elements of Dr George Ferragamo, being in touch longer with the Singhania family (one of whom was her source of the story), and actively trying to push the story, although her motivation is different- and eventually getting killed before coming on air with the story.
 * The Jonathan Matijevich character has no name, even in credits, and a longer role to play, beyond the first attempt on Aditya's life. He then kills Mehek Ahuja under orders from Aditya's aunt, then attempts to kill Trisha and Kiran in the safehouse. He also does most of the work otherwise done by Jovan Myovic, whose counterpart appears briefly in only two episodes, one being the final.
 * The Nina Myers character, Nikita Rai, is not revealed to be an enemy agent, instead serving loyally throughout the season. The Jamey Farrell character, Jiah, is the only mole inside ATU, and takes her own life after being arrested. This also means Nikita will continue working with ATU in season two, probably taking over the role given to Michelle Dessler in the original.
 * This show does not have a character directly based on Mike Novick, as a result of the structure and background of Aditya's family and associates being changed so heavily. Much of his work is initially done by Prithvi, Aditya's cousin, with an original character, CBI Agent Bhagwat, to carry forward his work later on.
 * The make-up and outcome of Jack Bauer's family are altered. Rathod has a teenage son, Veer, enrolled at a military academy, in addition to a daughter. Beginning in the family's story begins to diverge from the original - Trisha and Kiran manage to kill the assassin sent to kill them at the safe house, while Veer assumes a similar role to Kim Bauer in the latter half of Season 1, being mistakenly arrested for a drug deal and then kidnapped by the engineers of the assassination threat.
 * Rathod's wife, Trisha, is hospitalized late in the season and dies during the season finale, mirroring Teri Bauer's death at the end of Season 1.

Timeline
Season 1 begins at 12:00am local time, the day before the swearing-in of newly elected Aditya Singhania.

Production
The pilot episode of 24 was filmed in March of 2001, with regular production of the series beginning in July. Filming of the season was completed in early May of 2002.

The season was scheduled to begin airing on October 30, but after the terrorist attacks of September 11, the date was moved back a week to November 6th. Fox originally only ordered thirteen episodes, but in late November, picked the show up for a full 24-episode season, after airing only three episodes. Five days before the finale aired, 24 was renewed for a second season.

The first season had a dramatic and unexpected ending: the death of Teri Bauer. Many fans were dismayed by this sudden plot twist, while others applauded  24' s genre-defying willingness to kill major characters with little warning. The producers also filmed an alternate ending in which Teri, Kim, and Jack are reunited, and another in which Teri is shot, but survives. However, they eventually decided to go with the death of Teri Bauer as the climax of season one. The first alternate ending is available on the Season 1 DVD boxed set.

The entire season was released on DVD on in North America, with a special edition released on.

Cast

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 * Original counterparts indicated in parentheses

Starring

 * Anil Kapoor as Jai Singh Rathod (Jack Bauer; 24 episodes)
 * Mandira Bedi as Nikita Rai (Nina Myers; 24 episodes)
 * Tisca Chopra as Trisha Rathod (Teri Bauer; 24 episodes)
 * Ajinkya Deo as Karthik Chandrasekharan (Kevin Carroll)
 * Anita Raaj as Naina Singhania
 * Neil Bhoopalam as Aditya Singhania (David Palmer)
 * Adhir Bhatt as Tejpal Singh (Tony Almeida)
 * Sapna Pabbi as Kiran Rathod (Kim Bauer)
 * Yuri Suri as Gill (George Mason)
 * Shivani Tanksale as Divya Singhania

Guest Appearance

 * Anupam Kher as Wasim Khan (Richard Walsh; 2 episodes)

Also Starring

 * Raghav Chanana as Prithvi Singhania (Mike Novick)
 * Shabana Azmi as Abhilasha Grewal (Alberta Green; 7 episodes)
 * Adhish Khanna as Veer Singh Rathod
 * Nikkitasha Marwaha as Mehr (Mandy; 3 episodes)
 * Rajat Kaul as an assassin / Max Ferraro (Jonathan Matijevich / Martin Belkin, Jovan Myovic)
 * Priyanshu Cora as Rohit (Rick Allen)
 * Kiran Srinivas as Dev (Dan Mounts)
 * Shivkumar Subramaniam as Kamaljit Sood (Ryan Chappelle)
 * Rahul Khanna as Tarun Khosla (Ted Cofell)
 * Aradhana Jagota as Jhanvi Gupta (Janet York)
 * Suchitra Pillai-Malik as Mehek Ahuja (Maureen Kingsley)
 * Ankur Vikal as Yakub Sayeed (Ira Gaines)
 * Kishore Kadam as Ravindran (Victor Drazen)
 * Nikunj Malik as Simran (Melanie)
 * Pooja Ruparel as Pooja Bharadwaj (Patty Brooks / Elizabeth Nash)
 * Bikramjeet Kanwarpal as Pradhan (Aaron Pierce)
 * Dibyendu Bhattacharya as Raja (Andre Drazen)
 * Shahnawaz Pradhan as KK (Carl Webb)
 * Faiza Jalali as Jiah (Jamey Farrell)
 * Nissar Khan as Murad Ali (Mark DeSalvo)
 * Gurpreet Saini as Mihir (Milo Pressman)
 * Rajeev Siddhartha as Bala (Alexis Drazen)
 * Guarev Bakshi as Kabir
 * Richa Chadda as Sapna (Lauren Proctor)
 * Rahul Singh as Vikrant Maurya
 * Gandhi as an ATU field agent (Bundy)
 * Unidentified performers as:
 * Shaina (Bridgit)
 * Sahil (Scott Baylor)

Episodes

 * ''See also: Episodes § Season 1

Production

 * Directors for the first season were Nitya Mehra, Abhinay Deo and Renzil D'Silva. The production was also supervised by director Manish Sharma. The action director for the show was Allan Amin, who received no credit for his part on the show.
 * Renzil D'Silva also served as principal show writer with other writers Milap Zaveri, Priya Pinto, Bhavani Iyer and Niranjan Ivyengar. Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran were credited as original creators of the material and original 24 writers Howard Gordon, Michael Chernuchin, Lawrence Hertzog, Maurice Hurley, Chip Johannessen, Michael Loceff, Andrea Newman and Virgil Williams also had occasional episodes credited to them due to the show borrowing key episode story lines from the first two seasons of the US version. Sanaullah Khan and Sagar.Bhanushali were line producers for the show. Acclaimed writer Javed Akhtar also penned an uncredited speech spoken by Aditya on the show.
 * Executive producers for the show included Howard Gordon, Udayan Bhat and Apurba Sengupta with Anil Kapoor producing and Jessu George as producer for the Colors channel. Imagine Television was also credited as an executive producer for the show. RDP Television was also listed as a co-producer for some episodes.
 * Music consisted of reused original music by Sean Callery as well as additional music by Guarev Godkhindi and former sound mixer Mark Fulgado.
 * Directors of Photography were Jay Oza and Tanay Satam. shamshad live tv