Rahi Anil Barve’s Gulkanda Tales, Vikramaditya Motwane’s Jubilee among 22 new show titles announced by Amazon Prime Video

Streaming giant Amazon Prime Video has announced 41 upcoming Indian titles, including 22 fresh web-series, at a grand event that was held on the premises of a five-star hotel in Mumbai.

The star-studded extravaganza, which resembled a grand awards function, saw Madhuri Dixit shake a leg to a song from her upcoming movie Maja Maa and Rohit Shetty arriving on stage in a police vehicle for his first web-series Indian Police Force; both of which will be premiered on the digital platform. 

Tumbbad (2018) filmmaker Rahi Anil Barve’s keenly awaited next project, Gulkanda Tales, was among the projects that were announced. It stars Kunal Kemmu, Pankaj Tripathi and Patralekha. 

Another new show whose announcement made heads turn was Vikramaditya Motwane’s Jubilee. It depicts the Hindi film industry as it was when India just achieved independence. The show has an interesting cast of Prosenjit Chatterjee, Aditi Rao Hydari, Aparshakti Khurana and Wamiqa Gabbi. 

Director Gauravv Chawla and Ananya Banerjee are coming up with a supernatural show called Adhura which is based in a boarding school. Ishwak Singh and Rasika Dugal, the OTT specialists, are headlining the series. 

Artistes Kay Kay Menon, Kritika Kamra, Avinash Tiwary and Amyra Dastur have teamed up for Excel Media and Entertainment’s Bambai Meri Jaan. The show, which deals with organized crime in post-independent India, is being directed by Shujaat Saudagar and has been created by him and Rensil D’Silva. 

Here’s the complete list of new shows from Amazon Prime Video: 

Adhura (Hindi) 
A supernatural thriller set in an elite boarding school that hides a secret so dark and dreadful, it will shake the very foundations of the school and the lives of everyone connected to it.
Production Company: Emmay Entertainment
Creative Producer: Nikkhil Advani
Directors: Gauravv Chawla and Ananya Banerjee
Writers: Ananya Banerjee and Anand Jain
Cast: Ishwak Singh and Rasika Dugal

Bambai Meri Jaan (Hindi) 
In his quest to clean the mean streets of Bombay from the rise of organized crime in post-Independence India, an honest cop puts everything on the line including the thing he wants to protect the most, his family.
Production Company: Excel Media and Entertainment
Creators: Rensil D’Silva and Shujaat Saudagar
Executive Producers: Ritesh Sidhwani, Kassim Jagmagia and Farhan Akhtar
Director: Shujaat Saudagar
Writers: Story — Hussain Zaidi; Screenplay — Rensil D’Silva, Sammer Arora and Chaitanya Chopra; Dialogues and Additional screenplay — Hussain Dalal and Abbas Dalal
Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Kritika Kamra, Avinash Tiwary and Amyra Dastur

Call Me Bae (Hindi) 
Bae, a billionaire fashionista is disowned by her ultra-rich family, owing to a salacious scandal and for the first time in her life, she has to fend for herself. On this journey, she overcomes stereotypes and discovers who she really is. 
Production Company: Dharmatic Entertainment
Writers: Ishita Moitra, Samina Motlekar and Rohit Nair

Crash Course (Hindi) 
A fictional account of two warring coaching institutes, and the effect it has on a group of young students who are preparing for their competitive exams, with dreams in their eyes and expectation of their families on their back.
Production Company: Owlet Films
Creator: Manish Hariprasad 
Director: Vijay Maurya
Writers: Manish Hariprasad and Raina Roy
Cast: Annu Kapoor, Bhanu Uday, Udit Arora, Pranay Pachauri, Siddharth Kak, Chirag Vohra, Gaurav Sharma and Bidita Bag

Dahaad (Hindi)
A serial killer drama set in a small town, the show follows the investigations of a female inspector into a crime that shakes her core.
Production Companies: Excel Media and Tiger Baby
Creators: Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar
Executive Producers: Ritesh Sidhwani, Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti and Farhan Akhtar
Directors: Reema Kagti and Ruchika Oberoi
Writers: Reema Kagti, Ritesh Shah, Mansi Jain, Sunayana Kumari, Karan Shah, Chaitanya Chopra; Dialogues — Sumit Arora
Cast: Sonakshi Sinha, Vijay Verma, Gulshan Devaiah and Sohum Shah

Dhootha (Telugu)
In this supernatural horror, possessed inanimate objects wreak havoc on the lives of people who commit deadly sins.
Production Company: Northstar Entertainment 
Executive Producer: Vikram K Kumar 
Director: Vikram K Kumar 
Writers: Vikram K Kumar, Dondapati Venkatesh, Poorna Prajna, Sripal Reddy and Naveen George Thomas
Cast: Naga Chaitanya, Parvathy Thiruvothu, Priya Bhavani Shankar, Prachi Desai and Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam 

Farzi (Hindi) 
A small-time artist working out of his grandfather’s printing press has designed the ultimate con job — a crime uniquely suited to him — and gets pulled into the murky, high stakes world of all that it demands. A fiery, unorthodox task force officer has made it his mission to rid the country of the menace this poses in this fast-paced, edgy one-of-a-kind thriller. 
Production Company: D2R Films 
Creators: Raj & DK
Directors: Raj & DK
Writers: Raj & DK, Suman Kumar, Sita R Menon; Dialogues — Hussain Dalal; Additional Dialogues — Raghav Dutt 
Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Vijay Sethupathi, Raashi Khanna, Kay Kay Menon, Regina Cassandra, Zakir Hussain, Bhuvan Arora, Amol Palekar and Kubbra Sait

Gulkanda Tales (Hindi)
A new series from the house of Raj & DK.
Production Company: D2R Films
Creator: Raj and DK
Director: Rahi Anil Barve
Writers: Mitesh Shah, Raj & DK and Rahi Anil Barve; Dialogues — Yogesh Damble Rahi and Anil Barve
Cast: Kunal Khemu, Pankaj Tripathi and Patralekha

Happy Family: Conditions Apply (Hindi)
A light-hearted family comedy about a quirky but lovable joint family that is always at loggerheads with each other.
Production Company: Hats Off Productions
Directors: Aatish Kapadia and Jamnadas Majethia (JD)
Producers: Jamnadas Majethia (JD) and Aatish Kapadia
Cast: Raj Babbar, Ratna Pathak Shah, Atul Kulkarni and Ayesha Jhulka

Hush Hush (Hindi) 
The lives of five women intersect in unexpected ways when an unforeseen event unravels the façade of their lives. 
Production Company: Abundantia Entertainment
Directors: Tanuja Chandra, Ashish Pandey and Kopal Naithani
Writers: Story — Shikhaa Sharma, Ashish Mehta; Screenplay — Ashish Mehta; Dialogues — Juhi Chaturvedi
Cast: Juhi Chawla, Ayesha Jhulka, Soha Ali Khan, Karishma Tanna, Shahana Goswami and Kritika Kamra
 
Indian Police Force (Hindi) 
An action-thriller from one of the foremost name’s in the business, about a young Delhi Police officer who will go to any length to track down and bring to justice the terrorist mastermind behind a series of deadly bomb blasts around the country.
Production Company: Rohit Shetty Picturez and Reliance Entertainment
Creator: Rohit Shetty
Directors: Rohit Shetty and Sushwanth Prakash
Writers: Screenplay — Rohit Shetty, Anusha Nandakumar and Sandeep Saket; Dialogues — Anusha Nandakumar, Sandeep Saket and Ayush Trivedi
Cast: Sidharth Malhotra, Shilpa Shetty, Vivek Oberoi, Isha Talwar

Jee Karda (Hindi)
A coming-of-age series that delves into the lives of a close-knit group of seven childhood friends, trying to steer their way through adulthood.
Production Company: Maddock Films 
Director:  Arunima Sharma
Writers: Arunima Sharma, Hussain Dalal and Abbas Dalal
Cast: Tamannaah, Suhail Nayyar, Aashim Gulati, Anya Singh, Hussain Dalal, Samvedna Suwalka and Sayan Banerjee

Jubilee (Hindi) 
Set in a newly independent India, Jubilee is a fictional period drama that unveils the stories and dreams that gave birth to Bollywood, as we know it.
Production Company: Reliance Entertainment Studios
Creators: Vikramaditya Motwane and Soumik Sen
Director: Vikramaditya Motwane
Writer: Atul Sabharwal
Cast: Prosenjit Chatterjee, Aditi Rao Hydari, Aparshakti Khurana and Wamiqa Gabi

Modern Love Chennai (Tamil) 
The Chennai chapter of the widely loved US original anthology series, Modern Love Chennai explores six diverse yet universal stories of different facets, shades and moods of love, all set in the city’s many unique milieus.
Production Companies: Tyler Durden and Kino Fist 
Creative Producer: Thiagarajan Kumararaja 
Directors: Bharathi Raja, Balaji Sakthivel, Raju Murugan, Krishnakumar Ramakumar and Akshay Sundher  
Writers: Balaji Tharaneetharan, Rajumurugan, Reshma Ghatala, Pratheep Kumar and Thiagarajan Kumararaja 
Cast: Kishore, Ramya Nambeesan, Ashok Selvan, Ritu Varma, Vijayalakshmi, TJ Banu, Gouri Reddy, Samyuktha Vishwanathan, Vasudevan Murali, Chu Khoy Sheng and Sanjula S 

Modern Love Hyderabad (Telugu)
The Hyderabad chapter of the widely loved US original anthology series, Modern Love Hyderabad explores six diverse yet universal stories of different facets, shades and moods of love, all set in the city’s many unique milieus.
Production Company: SIC Productions (Films)
Creative Producer: Nagesh Kukunoor 
Producer: Elahe Hiptoola 
Directors: Nagesh Kukunoor, Venkatesh Maha, Uday Gurrala and Devika Bahudanam
Writers: Nagesh Kukunoor, Shashi Sudigala and Bahaish Kapoor 
Cast: Aadhi Pinisetty, Nithya Menen, Ritu Varma, Suhasini Maniratnam, Revathy, Naresh, Malavika Nair, Abijeet Duddala, Naresh Agastya, Komalee Prasad and Ulka Gupta 
  
Modern Love Mumbai (Hindi)
The Mumbai chapter of the widely loved US original anthology series, Modern Love Mumbai explores six diverse yet universal stories of different facets, shades and moods of love, all set in the city’s many unique milieus.
Production Company: Pritish Nandy Communications
Executive Producer: Rangita Pritish Nandy
Co-Executive Producer: Ishita Pritish Nandy
Directors: Shonali Bose, Hansal Mehta, Vishal Bhardwaj, Alankrita Shrivastava, Dhruv Sehgal and Nupur Asthana
Writers: Nilesh Maniyar, John Belanger, Hansal Mehta, Ankur Harish Pathak, Raghav Raj Kakkar, Kashyap Kapoor, Alankrita Srivastava, Jyotsna Hariharan, Vishal Bhardwaj, Dhruv Sehgal, Devika Bhagat and Nupur Asthana 
Cast: Fatima Sana Shaikh, Tanuja, Pratik Gandhi, Ranveer Brar, Naseeruddin Shah, Meiyang Chang, Yeo Yann Yann, Ritvik Bhowmik, Masaba Gupta, Sarika, Danesh Rizvi, Ahsaas Channa, Arshad Warsi and Chitrangda Singh

PI Meena (Hindi)
A young, troubled, female private investigator gets thrown into a world, where she has to fathom the unfathomable and find her own self.
Production Company: QED Films
Director: Debaloy Bhattacharya
Writer: Arindam Mitra
Cast: Tanya Maniktala, Jisshu Sengupta, Vinay Pathak, Parambrata Chattopadhyay and Samir Soni

Shehar – Lakhot (Hindi) 
A neo-noir series about a man who reluctantly returns to his hometown where he not only battles his past demons but also gets drawn into an even bigger cesspool of smoke and mirrors and must now prove his innocence.
Production Company: Offroad Films
Creators: Navdeep Singh and Devika Bhagat
Director: Navdeep Singh
Writers: Navdeep Singh and Devika Bhagat
Cast: Priyanshu Painyuli, Shruthy Menon, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Kubbra Sait, Manu Rishi Chadha and Kashyap Sanghari

Suzhal – The Vortex (Tamil) 
An investigation into a simple missing person’s case unravels and rips the intricate social fabric of a small town.
Production Company: Wallwatcher Films 
Creators: Pushkar and Gayatri 
Directors: Bramma, Anucharan M 
Writers: Pushkar and Gayatri 
Cast: Aishwarya Rajesh, Kathir, R Parthiban and Sriya Reddy 

Sweet Kaaram Coffee (Tamil)
Braving the unknown, three generations of women from the same family set off on an epic road trip.
Production Company: Lion Tooth Studios 
Creative Producer: Reshma Ghatala 
Directors: Bejoy Nambiar, Krishna Marimuthu and Swathi Raghuraaman 
Writers: Reshma Ghatala, Swathi Raghuraaman, Vinithra Madhavan Menon and Krishnaswamy Ramkumar 
Cast: Lakshmi, Madhoo and Santhy Balachandran  

The Village (Tamil) 
India’s first show based on a graphic novel, The Village follows a family on a road trip that falls victim to a clan of mutants.
Production Company: Studio Shakthi 
Creative Producer: Milind Rau 
Director: Milind Rau 
Writers: Milind Rau, Deepthi Govindarajan and Deeraj Vaidy 
Cast: Arya, Divya Pillai, Aazhiya, Aadukalam Naren, Thalaivasal Vijay, Muthukumar, Kalai Raani, George M, John Kokken, Arjun Chidambaram, Pooja, Jayaprakash and PN Sunny 

Vadhandhi: The Fable of Velonie (Tamil) 
A dramatic noir thriller about the murder of a beautiful young girl, seen from the Rashomon-esque perspectives of an unrelenting obsessed cop, a novelist captivated by her grace and an opportunistic news editor.
Production Company: Wallwatcher Films 
Creator: Andrew Louis 
Creative Producers: Pushkar & Gayatri 
Director: Andrew Louis 
Writer: Andrew Louis 
Cast: SJ Suryah, Laila, M Nasser, Sanjana