# Baalveer Returns

Baalveer Returns is an Indian fantasy television series that aired from 10 September 2019 to 30 June 2021 on Sony SAB. It is the second installment in the Baalveer franchise and is a direct sequel to Baalveer. It is followed by two spiritual sequel Baalveer 3 and Baalveer 4.

## Plot

Timnasa, an evil enchantress and the queen of Kaal Lok, begins a quest to rule the whole universe and become the most powerful and evil entity. She attacks and destroys the Pari Lok. They take refuge in Veer Lok, whose leader is a white lion, Shaurya. Baalveer becomes weaker, as he was injured in the attack. On Shaurya's instructions, Baalveer goes to Earth as Dev, with the fairies as his sisters, to find the next Baalveer, as he needs help to fight Timnasa.
The new Baalveer is a very mischievous 10-year-old boy named Vivaan, at the beginning, Baalveer and Vivaan started hating each other. Soon, Baalveer finds that Vivaan is the new Baalveer and discloses his reality to Vivaan and takes him to Veer Lok, where he is made the 'Junior Baalveer'. Both the Baalveers and the members of Veer Lok cross all the hurdles and fight with Timnasa and defeat her every time. At the same time friendship is growing between two Baalveers. They started loving each other and taking care of each other.
A long time ago, Timnasa had captured Sarvakaal, a monstrous sage who taught Timnasa black magic, as he knows the identity of the person who'll kill Timnasa. However, he refuses to reveal his identity. Baalveer finds Sarvakaal's prison and Timnasa's past, about how she was banished from Pari Lok, where she was a Pari and was made Baalveer for a day because of her evil and egoistic intentions. Baalveer acknowledges this and pretends to lose his powers and memory and stays as a commoner with Vivaan and his family as Vivaan's brother Debu. He acquires a new avatar, Nakabposh. He befriends Ananya, a girl who is threatened by Timnasa, and also receives help from Sarvakaal. They together go to Earth to find the hidden power which is destined to kill Timnasa. While doing so, it is revealed that Vivaan is Ananya's long-lost brother, and their biological mother is Devaki, the former queen of Shwet Lok, which was destroyed by Timnasa and was made Kaal Lok by her. The trio formed 'Team Shadow'. Vivaan is the hidden power who is destined to kill Timnasa, and he overcomes the hurdles and takes Sarvakaal's infinite energy. By this new power, he puts an end to Timnasa's trinity except for Tauba Tauba. During the battle, Masti Pari is killed by Bhaymar, and Vayu Pari and Jwala Pari sacrifice themselves as Timnasa's weapons hit them, to protect the Earth.
Later, when Debu opens the secret message of Timnasa, which she had handed over to him before her death, Timnasa's spirit tells Debu that his biological parents were killed by Shaurya and the fairies. The series unveils the underwater kingdom of Shinkai, which is ruled by Jalraj Kaikos.
The commander-in-chief Bambaal plots to rule over the whole universe, along with his sidekick Milsa. Baalveer captures Milsa, but Bambaal secretly kills her to hide his identity from Debu and Vivaan. Baalveer tells Vivaan about him being Nakabposh, leaving him shocked. Ray's full powers are unleashed by Debu's blood after he threatens Vivaan's life. The bond between Debu and Vivaan grows stronger. Meanwhile Ananya gets to know about the truth of Debu being Nakabposh and Senior Baalveer. After a series of incidents, Baalveer captures Bambaal and kills him. Ray kills Baalveer out of anger. He tries to manipulate Vivaan and Ananya by becoming Vivaan's elder brother. Baalveer, who is now a spirit, can only touch someone if that person is in danger. He saves Vivaan many times. Vivaan, who misses Baalveer more than anyone, becomes suspicious about the unknown person who is saving him many times. Ray makes a cooling glass that can see spirits with the use of Bambaal's energy. Baalveer Tracticali gives the glasses to Vivaan. God gives Baalveer his life back by seeing the love of Debu and Vivaan for each other and tells them that it was the test of their love. Ray creates problems for the Baalveers and the fairies. After a series of incidents, he revived Bhaymar, Timnasa, and Akroor to revenge Bambaal's and Milsa's deaths.
Timnasa had the plan to destroy the earth by attaining the ultimate power — a Red Diamond. Both Baalveer had to find four keys before Timnasa so that they can use the energy of the Red Diamond for making a Brahma Kawaj 'Ultimate Shield' on earth for protecting it from evil forces. However, Timnasa got the ultimate power — a Red Diamond to destroy the earth. Meanwhile, Baalveer found a White Diamond to stop Timnasa from destroying the earth. Baalveer sacrifices himself by joining the two stones, the red one and the white one, for saving the earth from Timnasa. During the explosion Timnasa also dies, leaving both of their souls destroyed by the explosion.
A new character, Happy, is introduced, who is a lookalike of Baalveer and Kaal, another lookalike of Baalveer with evil intentions who was imprisoned by Swarna Shaurya a very long time ago and kept frozen as a statue in Drak Lok gets freed from prison. Baalveers's energy star divides into 6 pieces and goes into the body of the 6 other lookalikes of Baalveer, which helps Kaal to escape from prison and to obtain all of Baalveer's powers. Kaal decides to kill other lookalikes of Baalveer. Kaal goes to the infinite library to know the location of his five other lookalike. On the other hand, Happy tries to understand his powers and he is unfamiliar with how he got his powers. Karuna comes to Kanpur with Mrs. Diwali to visit a temple, and while returning, she accidentally meets Happy. As Happy is the lookalike of Debu, Karuna gets shocked and is not able to understand what is happening. Kaal manages to kill a lookalike and gets his powers.
Later, Happy and his family visit Bharat Nagar colony to conduct a wedding ceremony of Diwali's relative. The residents of Bharat Nagar are shocked to see Happy, lookalike of Debu, and get emotional assuming him as Debu has returned after his death. However, it is revealed to them that Happy is just a lookalike of Debu. Ray and Bhaymar are doubtful of Happy being Baalveer and plan to unmask the real identity of Happy. In Drak Lok, Shauryas manage to safeguard remaining three lookalikes of Baalveer at a secret place.
However, Kaal finds them and manages to kill one other lookalike of Baalveer and gain his powers, while Happy also realizes that he is more powerful than before and practices to control his mind and powers. The Fairies along with Vivaan try to collect energies of seven Shauryas from seven universes to defeat Kaal and try to save the remaining lookalikes.

## Cast
### Main

* Dev Joshi as
** Baalveer / Dev Joshi / Debu / Naqabposh, biological son of Jaikaas, biological twin brother of Ray, the savior of Dharti Lok; Vivaan's brother-figure; Ananya's love interest. He is the son of Rani pari of Parilok. He is the adopted son of Baal Pari. He lived in Pari Lok for years but later moved to Veer Lok after Pari Lok's destruction, along with the fairies who survived the massacre under Shaurya's protection and guidance. He killed Bhaymaar in the Antim Yuddh. He later sacrifices his life and got killed along with Timnasa due to the explosion caused by linking the Red and White Diamond. (2019–2021)
** as Happy Pandey, a happy-go-lucky guy from Kanpur, a lookalike of Baalveer who got 1/6th of his powers after his death. (2021)
** as Kaal, an evil lookalike of Baalveer from Drak Lok who got 1/6th portion of his powers and wants to kill the other lookalikes to obtain all the powers of the dead Baalveer. He has a powerful pet dragon named Kazo whom he has put under his control and is used as a vehicle by him. (2021)
** Lookalike from Heem Universe, another lookalike of Baalveer from snow universe (Universe no.1) who was kidnapped by Kaal and killed by Kazo. (2021)
** Lookalike from 5th universe, who is taken by Vivaan to Drak Lok. He is a great fighter who is then kidnapped by Kaal. (2021)
** Lookalike from 3rd universe, who is taken by Vivaan to Drak Lok. (2021)
** Lookalike from 6th Universe, a tribal person taken by Vivaan to Drak Lok. He is kidnapped and killed by Kaal, who then gets the share of his (humshakal's) powers. (2021)
* Vansh Sayani as Vivaan / Junior Baalveer, Baalveer's brother-figure. He is the biological son of King Adityapratap and Queen Devaki of Shweth Lok. He is the adopted son of Karuna. He is the biological younger brother of Ananya and the adoptive younger brother of Khushi. He is the secret superpower who was destined to kill the Evil Queen of Kaal Lok, Timnasa. He killed Timnasa and her assistant Jabdali in the Antim Yuddh (the Ultimate Battle). He lives very sad after the death of Debu. (2019–2021)
* Pavitra Punia as Timnasa, the evil queen of Dark Realm and a big enemy of the Baalveers. She was called 'Bhay Rani' (Queen of Fear). Timnasa was banished from Fairy Realm by fairies because of her ego and evil. To take revenge on fairies and the people of Fairy Realm, Timnasa went to Dark Realm, imprisoned the sage Sarvakaal, and became the Queen. She was killed by Junior Baalveer, Vivaan in the Ultimate Battle but was revived by Ray and Bhaymaar. She was killed along with Balveers due to the explosion caused by the linking of Red and White Diamond. (2019–2020, 2021)
** Arsheen Naamdar as the child form of Timnasa. (2019–2020)
* Anahita Bhooshan as Ananya/Karigar Pari, a gymnast and member of Bharat Nagar Society. She is the daughter of King Adityapratap and Queen Devaki and Princess of Swetlok. Ananya is the biological elder sister of Vivaan. She was sent to Earth by Timnasa to keep an eye on Baalveers, but met Naqabposh and instantly fell for him. She and Debu were at loggerheads initially and do not get along with each other but later on, they became friends. She was originally a human but now a fairy of Veer Lok with the power to create anything by drawing in the air. (2020–2021)
* Shoaib Ali as Ray, Jaikas and Ranipari's son; Baalveer's biological twin brother. He has become the most powerful entity by Baalveer's blood and has now teamed up with Timnasa and Bhaymaar. (2020–2021)

### Recurring

* Shridhar Watsar
** as Dooba Dooba, best friend of Baal Veer and a young she-elephant calf named Kiki. He is the elder twin brother of Tauba Tauba but is against him as Tauba Tauba is evil. (2019–2021)
** as Tauba Tauba, the sidekick of Bhaymar. He is the younger twin brother of Dooba Dooba but is against him as Dooba Dooba is on Baalveer's side. (2019–2021)
** as Mauka Mauka, the servant/sidekick of Vinasham Kaal and lookalike of Dooba Dooba and Tauba Tauba. (2021)
* Aditya Ranvijay as Bhaymaar, the loyal warlord of Dark Realm. He always competed with Timnasa to take over the throne of Dark Realm by defeating the Baalveers. He was called 'Bhay Raja' by Tauba Tauba and was extremely skilled at controlling venomous creatures. He was well-liked by Timnasa for his loyalty towards the Dark Realm. He was killed by Senior Baalveer but returned to take his revenge. (2019–2021)
* Atul Verma as Jabdali, a loyal companion of Timanasa. He was killed by Vivaan. (2019–2020)
* Shailendra Pandey
** as Shaurya (Voice), a white lion who is the guardian of Veer Lok and Mentor of Baalveers. (2019–2021)
** as Akroor (Voice), a black panther who was the protector of Kaal Lok who was defeated by Shaurya in Antim Yuddh but returned along with Timnasa. (2019–2020, 2021)
* Sharmilee Raj as Baal Pari/Kaal Pari, a fairy of parilok with the powers of tresses and curls. She is the adoptive mother of Baalveer. She was transformed into Kaal Pari by Timnasa (2019, 2020–21)
* Krutika Desai as Masti Pari, a fairy of Fairy Realm or Megha on Earth as one of Baalveer's sisters. Most of the time, she accompanied and guided Vivaan. She had the power to increase or decrease her size. She was killed by Bhaymar in the 'Antim Yuddh' for saving Ananya. She was also the love interest of Inspector Girpade. (2019–2020)
* Bhaweeka Chaudhary as Paani Pari/Payal, a fairy of Pari Lok with the power of water; Payal on Earth as one of Baalveer's sisters. She helped Baalveer and Vivaan in their adventures with the powers of water. (2019–2021)
* Anuradha Khaira as Dhwani Pari/Diksha, a fairy of Pari Lok with the power of sound; Diksha on Earth as one of Baalveer's sisters. (2019–2021)
* Khushi Mukherjee as Jwala Pari/Jiya, a fairy of Pari Lok with the power of fire; Jiya on Earth as one of Baalveer's sisters. She was a Strict fairy than the others, and very much angry fairy towards evils. One time she burned the hand of Naagini. She was killed by Timnasa's weapons. (2019–2020)
** Urvi Gor replaced Mukherjee as Jwala Pari. (2020–2021)
* Amika Shail as Vayu Pari/Vidhi, a fairy of Pari Lok with the power of the wind; Vidhi on Earth as one of Baalveer's sisters. She was killed by Timnasa's weapons. (2019–2020)
** Nandini Tiwari replaced Shail as Vayu Pari. (2020–2021)
* Vimarsh Roshan as Bambaal, the cunning antagonist, who was Jalraj Kaikos' younger brother and Commander. He wished to takeover Jalraj's throne and rule over the universe. He was killed by Senior Baalveer. (2020)
* Shweta Khanduri as Milsa. She was killed by Bambaal to hide their secret. (2020)
* Ayesha Khan as Birba, the new loyalist of Bambaal. She is the most successful scientist in Shinkai after Milsa. (2020)
* Jaya Binju Tyagi as Karuna, Vivaan's adoptive and Khushi's biological mother and Dadasaheb's daughter-in-law. Karuna is a businesswoman living in Bharat Nagar with her two children Khushi and Vivaan and her father-in-law. She runs a tiffin service business in which she delivers tiffin business. Sometimes, she also gives free food to poor people. (2019–2021)
* Khushi Bharadwaj
** as Khushi, Vivaan's adoptive sister, Karuna's daughter, and Dadasaheb's granddaughter. She is a very good girl who always listens to her elders and loves her family. (2019–2021)
** as Kiki(Voice), a young female elephant calf who is Dooba-Dooba's best friend. (2019–2021)
* Arista Mehta as Sutli Girpade, Vivaan, and Gopu's close friend, and Padmini's daughter. She belongs to a middle-class family living in Bharat Nagar and she is intelligent. Her mother Padmini lives with Sutli's maternal uncle, Inspector Shantaram Girpade. (2019–2020)
** Sia Bhatia replaced Mehta as Sutli Girpade (2020–2021)
* Hridyansh Shekhawat as Gopu Chheda. He is Vivaan and Sutli's close friend. He, Vivaan, and Sutli plan to thwart the troubles created by Chintu and Chinti. His father is the owner of a general store in Bharat Nagar. (2019–2020)
* Yachit Sharma as Rinkoo, Vivaan and Sutli's friend. (2020–2021)
* Aarna Bhadoriya as Chinti Mishra, Chintu's sister, who keeps on troubling Vivaan and his paltan with her brother Chintu. (2019–2021)
* Abhay Bhadoriya as Chintu Mishra, Chinti's brother, who keeps on troubling Vivaan and his paltan with his sister Chinti. (2019–2021)
* Tiya Gandwani as Devaki, she was chosen as the queen and ruled over Shwet lok. She is the supreme controller of shwet lok. She is the sole decision maker. She is the mother of Ananya and Vivaan and residents of shwet realm. (2020)
* Purvesh Pimple as Montu, Chintu-Chinti's cousin; Debu's arch enemy. (2020–2021)
* Priya Sharma as Nagini. She is a Gorgon and was brought to life by Bhaymar in Baghdad. She was defeated by Baalveer and Aladdin but came back to take revenge. She died because of her own poison. (2020)
* Samay Thakkar as Sarvakaal (voice), the monstrous sage of the Black Realm who was captured by Timnasa, and it was his cosmic power that helped Vivaan kill Timnasa. (2020)
* Tapan A. Bhatt as Dadasaheb, Vivaan's adoptive and Khushi's real paternal grandfather, and Karuna's father-in-law. He is a very talkative person. (2019–2021)
* Guru Saran Tiwari as Mr. Munna Mishra, a selfish and greedy man who is Chintu-Chinti's father and Kamini's husband. He always shows off his richness. (2019–2021)
* Anuradha Verma as Mrs. Kamini Mishra, Chintu-Chinti's mother, and Munna's wife. She also shows off her richness. (2019–2021)
* Akshay Bhagat as Mr. Ratilal Chheda, Gopu's father, and Diwali's husband who owns a shop. He is a miser. (2019–2021)
* Neha Prajapati as Mrs. Diwali Chheda, Gopu's mother, and Ratilal's wife. She is a very caring mother towards her son Gopu. (2019–2021)
* Ajay Padhye as Inspector Shantaram Girpade, a bachelor police Sub-Inspector who is Sutli's maternal uncle and Padmini's younger brother. He loves Masti Pari in her human form Megha, and always tries to impress her. (2019–2021)
* Shruti Gholap as Mrs. Padmini Girpade, Sutli's mother, and Girpade's elder sister. Her husband is unknown. She is a middle-class woman and doesn't have enough money to fulfill Sutli's demands. (2019–2021)
* Reena as Dr. Shalini, Rinkoo's mother who is a Gynaecologist. She did the operation on Karuna during her second delivery. (2020–2021)
* Heer Chopra as Saral Pari, a fairy of Pari Lok with the power of Simplicity: she can make anything that's hard simple to do. She was killed by Akroor for scaring Netra Pari. (2019)
* Alisha Chaudhary as Netra Pari/Timnasa, Netra Pari is a fairy of Pari Lok with the power of Vision. Her body was used by Timnasa against Baal Veer finding his successor. She was later killed by Timnasa. (2019)
* Shailesh Gulabani as Parikshak, a sidekick of Bambaal sent to earth for capturing Baalveer. (2020)
* Shagun Singh as Jiya, Chintu Chinti's cousin and dancer, Vivaan's enemy later friend. (2020)
* Amit Lohia as Mahabali, the disciple of Guru Gyani who has a protective dress and crown which cannot be destroyed by Veer Lok's protective shield. Later, both the Baalveers manage to take off the protective dress and crown from his head. Guru Gyani then makes him good from evil and heads towards the Himalayas for meditation. (2021)
* Shresth Saxena as Akal, the hunter of goodness who converts good entities into trophies with his magical arrows. (2021)
* Shubh Saxena as Mand, twin brother of Akal and a hunter of goodness who converts good entities into trophies with his magical arrows. (2021)
* Kunal Bakshi as an evil Egyptian king Imaya. (2021)
* Sharik Khan
** as Vivaan and Sutli's friend. (2020–2021)
** as Pichku (voice), a baby ghost who was trapped in Veer Lok by Shaurya and fairies; has the ability to turn into any object or go through it and can cure every disease or wound. (2021)
* Bharat Bhatia as Babban; Boss of Babban Seth and Sons who wanted to build Casino in the playground where kids play. (2021)
* Myra Singh as Aarohi. She is from Benaras. She always wins all games. She has a catchphrase "UP ke nivasi hote hai bade he saahsi" (Translation: The people of UP are very courageous.)
* Shweta Gautam as Radha Pandey, mother of Happy and Jolly Pandey. (2021)
* Mihir Rajda as Jolly Pandey, Happy's brother (2021)
* Dimple Kava as Dimple Pandey, Jolly Pandey's wife and Happy's sister-in-law (2021)
* Ayat Shaikh as Kuki Pandey, Dimple and Jolly Pandey's daughter, and Happy's niece (2021)
* Krish Rao as Puki Pandey, Dimple and Jolly Pandey's son and Happy's nephew (2021)
* Khushi Bhardwaj as Khushi, Vivaan's adoptive sister, Karuna's daughter
* Neha Prajapati as Mrs. Diwali Chheda, Gopu's mother, and Ratilal's wife. (2021)

### Guest

* Digvijay Purohit as Jalraj Kaikos, the ruler of the Shinkai kingdom and elder brother of Bambaal. (2020)
* Siddharth Nigam as Aladdin from Aladdin – Naam Toh Suna Hoga. (2020)
* Raashul Tandon as Ginu from Aladdin – Naam Toh Suna Hoga. (2020)
* Aamir Dalvi as Zafar from Aladdin – Naam Toh Suna Hoga. (2020)
* Ketan Karande as Tejas Pehelwan, a strong wrestler who was defeated by Happy in a wrestling competition. (2021)

## Crossover

Baalveer Returns did a crossover with the series Aladdin – Naam Toh Suna Hoga for 5 episodes from 27 January 2020 to 31 January 2020.

## Production
### Development

The commencement of the show, a sequel to the children's fantasy series Baalveer, was announced in early August 2019 by Optimystix Entertainment and Sony SAB. The first promo was released in August 2019. The new series cast Dev Joshi as Senior Baalveer, and introduced Vansh Sayani in a lead role as Baalveer's successor. Pavitra Punia was cast as the evil fairy, Timnasa.

### Filming

The series is being taped on sets at Film City, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India After the Indian government announced the COVID-19 lockdown, the show ceased airing new episodes, along with other shows throughout the Indian entertainment industry. Four months later, after the government relaxed restrictions, the series resumed airing of new episodes, continuing with the storyline that had been interrupted.

### Casting

In 2020, Pavitra Punia announced that she would exit the series to participate in Season 14 of Bigg Boss. Subsequently, Krutika Desai, Amika Shail and Khushi Mukherjee also quit the show for other reasons.
The storyline ended and producers announced a second season, introducing the underwater kingdom of Shinkai, which would be populated by new villains, Bambaal, Milsa and Ray, played by Vimarsh Roshan, Shweta Khanduri and Shoaib Ali, respectively. In mid-December 2020, makers announced that Vimarsh Roshan was leaving the series and Aditya Ranvijay would return as Bhaymaar. In early January 2021, makers announced the return of Pavitra Punia as Timnasa also, following her eviction from Bigg Boss.
Dev Joshi played six different characters.

## Reception

The first episode has over 45 million views on YouTube. Baalveer Returns episode 233 has over 72 million views on YouTube.Its 170 episode has over 60 million views