Anup Soni is an Indian actor and anchor. He is an alumnus of the National School of Drama. Soni began his career with roles in television serials such as Sea Hawks and Saaya. He then took a break from television to work in films. He appeared in the 2003 films Kharaashein: Scars From Riots, Hum Pyar Tumhi Se Kar Baithe as well as Hathyar. In 2004, he appeared in Ashoke Pandit's film Sheen. But he returned to television to work in CID: Special Bureau. He continues working both in films and television, and he previously worked in the serial Crime Patrol on Sony.
Meenu Gaur is a London-based British-Indian director and screenwriter. She is best known for her 2013 Pakistani film Zinda Bhaag which she co-wrote and co-directed with Farjab Nabi. The film was an entry to the foreign film category at the Oscars. She is presently working on a feature film titled 'Barzakh:Between Heaven and Hell' supported by the Locarno International Film Festival's Open Doors Hub Programme. She has also been part of Berlinale Talents and the NIPKOW film residency in Berlin, supported by Berlinale and Medienboard. Recently, SOAS, University of London installed her portrait on the school walls as part of the Alumni Series that celebrates notable alumni.
Plabita Borthakur is an Indian actress, singer and artist from Assam.
Rangbaaz is an Indian web series set against the rustic background of the Gorakhpur in the 1990s. It was released as a ZEE5 original on 22 December 2018. In October 2019, ZEE5 renewed the show for a second season, Rangbaaz Phirse, which premiered on 20 December 2019. Season three of Rangbaaz title Rangbaaz: Darr Ki Rajneeti premiered on ZEE5 on 29 July 2022.
Bombay Begums is an Indian drama streaming television series for Netflix created by Alankrita Shrivastava, who also co-wrote the script along with Bornila Chatterjee and Iti Agarwal. The series directed by Shrivastava and Chatterjee, is produced by the Los Angeles-based Chernin Entertainment and Endemol Shine Group, which features Pooja Bhatt, Shahana Goswami, Amruta Subhash and Plabita Borthakur in the lead roles, which was narrated by Aadhya Anand. The series marks the comeback of actress Pooja Bhatt. It explores the lives of five ambitious women from various walks of life navigating through their dreams, desires and disappointments, from boardrooms to society's margins, in modern-day Mumbai. It was released on Netflix on 8 March 2021.
Avrodh: The Siege Within is an Indian Hindi-language military drama streaming television series which premiered on SonyLIV on 31 July 2020. The series, directed by Raj Acharya and produced by Applause Entertainment, Irada Entertainment and Mehra Entertainment, is a retelling of the 2016 Uri attack and the following surgical strikes. It is based on a chapter from the book India’s Most Fearless by Shiv Aroor and Rahul Singh. A standalone sequel, titled Avrodh: The Siege Within 2, was released in June 2022.
Dhoop Ki Deewar is a ZEE5 exclusive and Zindagi-original Pakistani drama web series. It is written by Umera Ahmad and directed by Haseeb Hassan. The web series has an ensemble cast including Sajal Aly and Ahad Raza Mir in lead roles while Zaib Rehman, Savera Nadeem, Samiya Mumtaz, Samina Ahmed, Manzar Sehbai in prominent roles. Set in the backdrop of the Indo-Pak conflict, the web series depicts how peace is better than war.
Aasif Khan is an Indian actor, best known for his role as Babar in action crime thriller web television series Mirzapur (2018-2020).
Chakravyuh – An Inspector Virkar Crime Thriller is a Hindi-language Indian crime thriller MX Original web series, directed by Sajit Warrier and produced by Applause Entertainment Ltd, Kailash Surendranath, Arti Surendranath and Mayavid Online LLP. The series features Prateik Babbar, Simran Mundi, Ruhi Singh, Ashish Vidyarthi, Shiv Panditt, Gopal Dutt & Asif Basra. The show is based on the story and characters created by Filmmaker/Author Piyush Jha in his third book Anti-Social Network, from his Inspector Virkar Crime-Thriller book series. The show follows Inspector Virkar who is out to solve a murder case that seems to be linked to cybercrime. The show was made available for streaming on OTT platform MX Player for free from 12 March 2021.
Maharani (transl. Empress) is an 2021 Indian Hindi-language drama streaming television series created by Subhash Kapoor. Season 1 of the series is directed by Karan Sharma and Season 2 was directed by Ravindra Gautam. The series stars Huma Qureshi as the protagonist along with Sohum Shah, Amit Sial, Kani Kusruti and Inaamulhaq. The political multi-seasons series is partly inspired by what happened in Bihar in the 1990s when Lalu Prasad Yadav made his homemaker wife Rabri Devi his successor. The story of season 1 is from 1995 to 1999 and is inspired from real life events and characters like Ranvir Sena, left-wing militants, Naxalite groups, the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation, 1997 Laxmanpur Bathe massacre, Fodder Scam, Brahmeshwar Singh. The story of season 2 is from mid-1999 and is inspired from real life events and characters like Shilpi-Gautam Murder, Sadhu Yadav, Rajiv Goswami, Shibu Soren, Mohammad Shahabuddin, Prashant Kishor, Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) and 2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election.
Tabbar (transl. Family) is an Indian Hindi-Punjabi language thriller streaming television series created and written by Harman Wadala, directed by Ajitpal Singh and produced by Ajay G. Rai for SonyLIV, and premiered on 15 October 2021. It stars Supriya Pathak, Pavan Malhotra, Gagan Arora, Kanwaljit Singh and Ranvir Shorey in lead role.
Qatil Haseenaon Ke Naam is a Pakistani crime fiction drama original web series streaming on ZEE5. It is created and directed by British-Indian director Meenu Gaur and written by Farjad Nabi and Meenu Gaur. The series is produced by Hasan Raza Abidi and Shailja Kejriwal. This six-episode web series was released on 10 December 2021. It stars Rubya Chaudhry, Sanam Saeed, Sarwat Gilani, Eman Suleman and Faiza Gillani in the lead roles.
Saas Bahu Achaar Pvt Ltd is an Indian Drama web-series created by Arunabh Kumar and Apoorv Singh Karki under The Viral Fever for the streaming platform ZEE5. Directed by Karki and produced by Kumar, the series features Amruta Subhash, Anup Soni, Yamini Das, Anjana Sukhani, Manu Bisht, Nikhil Chawla, and Shreyansh Kaurav in prominent roles. The series premiered on 8 July 2022.
Mukhbir – The Story of a Spy is an Indian spy-thriller original series directed by Shivam Nair and Jayprad Desai and produced by Vaibhav Modi under the banner of Victor Tango Entertainment. The series is the adaptation of the retired Joint Director of the Intelligence Bureau Maloy Krishna Dhar's novel, Mission to Pakistan: An Intelligence Agent in Pakistan and stars Zain Khan Durrani, Prakash Raj, Adil Hussain, Barkha Bisht, Harsh Chhaya, Satyadeep Mishra, Bijou Thaangjam and Zoya Afroz in the pivotal roles. The plot follows a secret agent who led India to evade several aggressive advances from the enemy country by providing intelligence and by helping India in 1965 war and give a befitting reply to Pakistan 's Operation Gibraltar and Operation Grand Slam maneuvres. The series released on ZEE5 on 11 November 2022.
Shrikant Bashir is a 2020 Indian edgy action-drama original series, premiered on streaming service SonyLIV on 11 December 2020. It was written by Shiraz Ahmed and helmed by Santosh Shetty, starring Gashmeer Mahajani, Pooja Gor, Ashmita Jaggi, and Yudhishthir Singh in the lead roles. Previously titled as SOT: Surgical Operation Team, the series follows the titular duo who work for an intelligence agency that secretly works to save India from national and international threats. It was made under the production house of Banijay Asia.
Vadhandhi: The Fable of Velonie is a 2022 Indian-Tamil-language mystery crime thriller streaming television series created by Andrew Louis, of Leelai and Kolaigaran fame, for Amazon Prime Video. It was directed and written by Andrew Louis. The principal cast of the series includes S. J. Suryah, Laila, Nassar, Sanjana Krishnamoorthy, Smruthi Venkat, Vivek Prasanna, Kumaran Thangarajan, Vaibhav Murugesan, Vikky Aadithya and Hareesh Peradi. It premiered on December 2, 2022 and consists of eight episodes.
The Chargesheet: Innocent or Guilty? is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language crime drama streaming television series written by Priyanka Ghatak and directed by Shashant Shah and Ravit Kumar Tyagi and Shashant Shah. Its stars Arunoday Singh, Ashwini Kalsekar, Hrishitaa Bhatt, Kishori Shahane, Tridha Choudhury, Satish Kaushik, Shakti Anand, Sikandar Kher, Shiv Panditt, and others.
