Amazon Prime Video’s Bestseller, starring Mithun Chakraborty and Shruti Haasan, to be premiered on 18 February

Amazon Prime Video’s Bestseller (2022), a psychological thriller series starring Mithun Chakraborty and Shruti Haasan, will be premiered on 18 February.

Directed by Mukul Abhyankar, the eight-episode show also features Arjan Bajwa, Gauahar Khan, Satyajeet Dubey and Sonalee Kulkarni. Bestseller is inspired by the Ravi Subramanian novel The Bestseller She Wrote.

Produced by Siddharth Malhotra’s Alchemy Production LLP, Bestseller has been written by Anvita Dutt and Althea Kaushal.

The show has been described by the producers as a "nail-biting, new-age suspense thriller weaving a world where every action has multiple meanings. When the lives of two strangers suddenly collide, their hidden motivations and ambitions surface and create a domino effect on many lives."

Aparna Purohit, head of India Originals at Amazon Prime Video, said, "At Prime Video, our endeavour has been to provide a platform to diverse cinematic voices and bring compelling, engaging and differentiated content to our customers."

She added, "Bestseller is a fast-paced, gritty psychological thriller that will pull viewers deep into a vortex of flawed human nature and leave them hooked. It’s a complex world where nothing is quite as it seems, and the story gets darker.”

Malhotra, who was behind the projects Tribhanga (2021) and Dial 100 (2021), said, “For me, Bestseller has not been a project but a dream that I have envisaged for over the past several years. I have had endless brainstorming sessions with my team, nurturing, shaping and transforming this riveting story into a series that I believe will redefine the psychological thriller as a genre."

He added that Abhyankar, the director, had tied the story together in an incredible way and that the cast had breathed life into the script. "Partnering with Prime Video, right from the conceptualization phase, has been a deeply insightful experience and I believe Bestseller is just the beginning of a long collaboration with the streaming service," the producer said.