Gangstars

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Gangstars
GangStars poster.jpg
Teaser poster
Genre Crime drama
Created by B. V. Nandini Reddy
Written byLakshmi Bhupala (dialogues)
Directed byAjay Bhuyan
Starring
Composer Sai Kartheek
Country of originIndia
Original languageTelugu
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes12
Production
Producers
CinematographyRakesh Erukulla
EditorKishore Maddali
Running time21–25 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkAmazon Video
Release1 June 2018 (2018-06-01) [1]

Gangstars is a 2018 Indian Telugu-language crime drama television series by Amazon Prime Video, [2] produced by Swapna C Dutt, Chakravathi Gutta, Sanjay Reddy, Anil Pallala under the Early Monsoon Tales and Silly Monks Entertainments banner and directed by Ajay Bhuyan. The series was created by B. V. Nandini Reddy. [3] The series stars Jagapathi Babu, Navdeep, Shweta Basu Prasad, Siddu Jonnalagadda, Apoorva Arora [4] and music is composed by Sai Karthik.

Contents

It is the first ever Amazon Prime Video original series in Telugu, and has 12 episodes with dubbed versions in Tamil and Hindi. [5] [6] [7]

Plot

The series is set in the backdrop of the film industry and involves two movie stars, two ex-lovers, and one gangster. How one incident sets up a chain of events in motion and interconnects the lives of all these characters, interspersed with a murder is the intriguing crux of the narrative. [8]

Cast

Main

Recurring

Reception

Haricharan Pudupeddi of the Firstpost called the series a "wasted opportunity". He added that "Despite having so much of talent at its disposal, the show fails to rise above a very predictable story of action and comedy." [9] Hemanth Kumar CR writing for The News Minute stated that "Gangstars feels like a missed opportunity to create something unique and charming. It has its moments, when it takes a sly dig at the film industry, but when it focuses on its own story, it becomes too self-aware of what it wants to do and it never finds its groove." [10]

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