Reporters was an Indian fiction newsroom drama television series very loosely based on The Newsroom (U.S. TV series), which premiered on 13 April 2015 on Sony Entertainment Television (India) and Sony Entertainment Television Asia. The show stars Rajeev Khandelwal as Kabir and Kritika Kamra as Ananya, playing television reporters on the show.
Producer Shristi Arya stated that after meeting a reporter she was inspired to make a show based on journalists' life. The show will be seasonal format. The character of Kabir (Rajeev Khandelwal) is based on Rajdeep Sardesai and Arnab Goswami.
Plot summary
Reporters is a story in a newsroom backdrop journalists Ananya Kashyap (Kritika Kamra) and Kabir Sharma ( Rajeev Khandelwal). Ananya is a junior reporter in KKN, the news channel she works for run by Malvika (Megha Chatterjee); the daughter of KL Prasad, the owner of KKN and his friend & partner Khalid (Bikramjeet Kanwarpal). Kabir after working for Delhi Kranti Newspaper, joins KKN as the Editor-in-Chief. Kabir's special news bulletins at 9 pm brings the show to number one in the ratings. Ananya also putting up her share in KKN's success due to her bright thinking and potential to be a good journalist.
Ananya carries an article that had been written many years ago by Kabir in which Kabir defends her father, Sudhir Kashyap, against accusations made about pharmaceutical company corruption. Because of Kabir, Ananya decided to become a journalist. Ananya and her family are still in a hope that someday they'll meet her father, who had suddenly disappeared after he was released on bail. After the success party of KKN's achievement of number one in ratings, Ananya gets a call from a farmer-turned-gunman Baghi Madhavnath for an interview, which she wants to do, despite the dangers. Kabir also accompanies her, as this interview can be very useful for their channel(and he secretly also wants to protect her even though they both hate each other). They are abducted by Madhavnath and his gang .After a few episodes the Duo escape thanks to Kabir's quick thinking and skills and escape from the kidnappers, who chase them in the jungle. During the jungle episodes Ananya and Kabir shares good time with each other. Later she tell Kabir about her father's story making Kabir realise that she is daughter of Sudhir Kashyap. But Kabir deliberately enacts that he doesn't remember her father. The run and chase drama finally ends.
The police finally capture Baghi Madhavnath and his accomplices, and Ananya and Kabir make it to KKN Studio, where they do a joint interview on one of Madhavnath's hench men who helped them escape from the jungle, after realising how wrong he was about them. Kabir and Ananya finally become friends, with both falling in love with each other without even realising. Ananya also ask for Kabir's help to find the real culprits behind conspiracy against her father. Later Kabir returns Ananya her father's wallet stating that her father committed suicide. Knowing about her father's demise Ananya's best friend Ronnie (Puru Chibber) who secretly loves Ananya consoles her and her family in their grief. Seeing this Kabir turns jealous and drinks alcohol who had quitted drinking long back.