Selection Day | |
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Created by | Marston Bloom |
Based on | Selection Day by Aravind Adiga |
Written by | Marston Bloom Karan Agarwal |
Directed by | Udayan Prasad Karan Boolani |
Starring | Mohammad Samad Yash Dholye Karanvir Malhotra Rajesh Tailang Mahesh Manjrekar Ratna Pathak Shah Shiv Panditt Akshay Oberoi Parul Gulati Amruta Subhash |
Composer | Shashwat Sachdev |
Country of origin | India |
Original language | Hindi |
No. of seasons | 1 (2 parts) |
No. of episodes | 12 |
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Production location | India |
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Network | Netflix |
Release | 28 December 2018 |
Selection Day is an Indian sports drama television series, based on Aravind Adiga's 2016 novel of the same name. [1] Produced by Anil Kapoor and Anand Tucker, and adapted for television by Marston Bloom (with Hindi Dialogues by Sumit Arora) it stars Mohammad Samad, Yash Dholye, Karanvir Malhotra, Rajesh Tailang, Mahesh Manjrekar, Ratna Pathak Shah, Shiv Panditt, Parul Gulati, Amruta Subhash and Akshay Oberoi. The series follows the life of two brothers Radha and Manju who are raised by their cricket obsessed father and meet their rival Javed. [2] The first six episodes of Selection Day premiered on 28 December 2018 on Netflix. [3] Part 2, consisting of another set of six episodes, was premiered on 19 April 2019. [4]
Radha and Manjunath are two brothers who have been trained by their father to become the next great pair of cricket batsmen. After toying with the bowling attacks of their local village teams, their father decides it is time for them to move to Mumbai and hope to be selected to play in domestic leagues in the upcoming selection season.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date [5] | |||||||
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Part 1 | ||||||||||||
1 | 1 | "Episode 1" | Udayan Prasad | Marston Bloom | December 28, 2018 | |||||||
2 | 2 | "Episode 2" | Udayan Prasad | Marston Bloom | December 28, 2018 | |||||||
3 | 3 | "Episode 3" | Udayan Prasad | Marston Bloom | December 28, 2018 | |||||||
4 | 4 | "Episode 4" | Udayan Prasad | Marston Bloom | December 28, 2018 | |||||||
5 | 5 | "Episode 5" | Udayan Prasad | Marston Bloom | December 28, 2018 | |||||||
6 | 6 | "Episode 6" | Udayan Prasad | Marston Bloom | December 28, 2018 | |||||||
Part 2 | ||||||||||||
7 | 1 | "Episode 7" | Karan Boolani | Marston Bloom & Karan Agarwal | April 19, 2019 | |||||||
8 | 2 | "Episode 8" | Karan Boolani | Marston Bloom & Karan Agarwal | April 19, 2019 | |||||||
9 | 3 | "Episode 9" | Karan Boolani | Marston Bloom & Karan Agarwal | April 19, 2019 | |||||||
10 | 4 | "Episode 10" | Karan Boolani | Marston Bloom | April 19, 2019 | |||||||
11 | 5 | "Episode 11" | Karan Boolani | Marston Bloom | April 19, 2019 | |||||||
12 | 6 | "Episode 12" | Karan Boolani | Marston Bloom | April 19, 2019 |
The series was announced in August 2017. [6] A 16-second teaser was released on 8 October 2018. [7]
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