Saturday suspense is an Indian Television Thriller series which premiered on 3rd April, 1997 on Zee television. It was a one hour series with a different story each day in a short film format produced by different production houses.
Some of the famous producers and directors to have been associated with this show are
Shyam Ramsay
of Purana Mandir fame and part of the famous Ramsay brothers family,
Homi Wadia
of the
Hatim Tai
fame,
Anant Mahadevan
of the Marathi movie Mee Sindhutai Sapkal fame,
Vivek Agnihotri
of the Hate Story fame, Mahesh Aney-national award-winning cinematographer of the classic Swades,
Anurag Basu
of Barfi fame,
Deepak Tijori
of the Oops! fame,
Ashutosh Gowariker
of Lagaan fame, Veteran director- late
Raj Tilak
and
Vikram Bhatt
of Raaz and Haunted fame.
The show went on to become one of Zee TV’s hit horror show of all times. A few of the famous stories from Saturday suspense are Taxi Driver, Hostel, Shart, Paheli and Lethal Tinsel. The show also gave to the industry, some of the best actors/ artists like
Irfan Khan
,
Aditya Srivastava
,
Kay Kay Menon
,
Deepak Parashar
, etc.
The series aired every Saturday on Zee TV at 9.30pm IST.