Nana Patekar Will Mark His OTT Debut With Prakash Jha’s ‘Laal Batti’
The Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai served as the venue for the celebrity-studded event. Over 100+ stories in numerous languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Bhojpuri, and southern languages, across genres of films and original web series are planned for release. Actor Nana Patekar is poised to make his OTT debut with the next series titled ‘Laal Batti’, a political thriller produced by Prakash Jha. On Wednesday, the project was announced as a piece of Jio Studios' programming schedule.
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Some of the greatest directors of Hindi cinema, including Rajkumar Hirani, Sooraj Barjatya, Ali Abbas Zafar, Aditya Dhar, Prakash Jha, Amar Kaushik, and Laxman Utekar, will be releasing their movies as a part of the program.
The movies scheduled in the slate involves ‘Dunki’, ‘Bloody Daddy’, ‘Bhediya 2’, ‘Bhul Chuk Maaf’, an untitled film starring Shahid Kapoor and Kriti Sanon, ‘Stree 2’, ‘Section 84’, ‘Hisaab Barabar’, ‘Zara Hatke Zara Bachke’, ‘BlackOut’, ‘Mumbaikar’ starring Vijay Sethupathi, ‘The Storyteller’, ‘Dhoom Dhaam’ and ‘Empire’.
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For the web series vertical, among of the most desired titles include ‘Union: The Making of India’ (Kay Kay Menon and Ashutosh Rana), ‘Inspector Avinash’, ‘Rafuchakkar’, Rapper Raftaar’s OTT debut ‘Bajao’, ‘The Magic of Shiri’, ‘Doctors’, and ‘A Legal Affair’.
The Marathi slate consists of ‘Baipan Bhari Deva’, ‘Four Blind Men’, ‘1234’, ‘Kharvas’, ‘Kaata Kirrr’, and ‘Khashaba’. Jio Studios is perhaps the sole media firm to invest in premium Marathi original web series like ‘Kaalsutra’, ‘Eka Kaleche Mani’ and ‘Aga Aai Aho Aai’.
Similarly, the Bengali audience will be rewarded with projects featuring prominent stars such as Mithun Chakraborty, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Jisshu Sengupta and makers Dhrubo Banerjee, Raj Chakraborty, Anirban Bhattacharya, Srijit Mukherji and Suman Ghosh.
The Gujarati film slate also has an attractive line-up which includes ‘Bachubhai’, ‘Chaandlo’ and ‘Ghulam Chor’.
