Amazon Prime Video announced its upcoming India slate on Thursday. Among the Hindi titles announced are Shahid Kapoor-starrer con job thriller Farzi, directed by Raj & DK; Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti's serial killer drama Dahaad with Sonakshi Sinha; Vikramaditya Motwane's Jubilee -- a period drama on the rise of Bollywood and Hush Hush starring Juhi Chawla. Subsequent seasons of Mirzapur, Pataal Lok, The Family Man and Panchayat will also come this year. Prime Video is also co-producing Neeyat with Vidya Balan in the lead and Akshay Kumar-starrer Ram Setu.
See the full list here:
1. Adhura (Hindi)
A supernatural thriller set in an elite boarding school which hides a secret so dark and dreadful, it will shake the very foundations of the school and the lives of everyone connected to it.
Key Cast: Ishwak Singh, Rasika Dugal
Directors: Gauravv Chawla and Ananya Banerjee
Writers: Ananya Banerjee and Anand Jai
Production Company: Emmay Entertainment
Creative Producer – Nikkhil Advani
2. Bambai Meri Jaan (Hindi)
In his quest to clean the mean streets of Bombay from the rise of organised crime in post-Independence India, an honest cop puts everything on the line including the thing he wants to protect the most, his family.
Key Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Kritika Kamra, Avinash Tiwary, Amyra Dastur
Creators: Rensil D’Silva and Shujaat Saudagar
Director: Shujaat Saudagar
Writers: Stoy - Hussain Zaidi; Screenplay - Rensil D’Silva, Sammer Arora and Chaitanya Chopra; Dialogues and Additional screenplay - Hussain Dalal and Abbas Dalal
Executive producers - Ritesh Sidhwani, Kassim Jagmagia and Farhan Akhtar
Production Company: Excel Media and Entertainment
3. Call Me Bae (Hindi)
Bae, a billionaire fashionista, is disowned by her ultra-rich family, owing to a salacious scandal. For the first time in her life, she has to fend for herself. On this journey, she overcomes stereotypes and discovers herself.
Writers: Ishita Moitra, Samina Motlekar, Rohit Nair
Production Company: Dharmatic Entertainment
4. 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.
Key Cast: Annu Kapoor, Bhanu Uday, Udit Arora, Pranay Pachauri, Siddharth Kak, Chirag Vohra, Gaurav Sharma, Bidita Bag
Creator: Manish Hariprasad
Director: Vijay Maurya
Writers: Manish Hariprasad, Raina Roy
Production Company: Owlet Films
5. 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.
Key Cast: Sonakshi Sinha, Vijay Verma, Gulshan Devaiah, Sohum Shah
Creators: Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar
Directors: Reema Kagti and Ruchika Oberoi
Writers: Reema Kagti, Ritesh Shah, Mansi Jain , Sunayana Kumari, Karan Shah , Chaitanya Chopra; Dialogues - Sumit Arora
Executive Producers: Ritesh Sidhwani, Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti and Farhan Akhtar
Production Company: Excel Media and Tiger Baby
6. 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
Key Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Vijay Sethupathi, Raashi Khanna, Kay Kay Menon, Regina Cassandra, Zakir Hussain, Bhuvan Arora, Amol Palekar, Kubbra Sait
7. Gulkanda Tales (Hindi)
A new series from the house of Raj & DK.
Key Cast: Kunal Khemu, Pankaj Tripathi, Patralekha
Creator: Raj and DK
Director: Rahi Anil Barve
Writers: Mitesh Shah, Raj & DK, Rahi Anil Barve; Dialogues - Yogesh Damble Rahi, Anil Barve
Production Company: D2R Films
8. 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.
Key Cast: Raj Babbar, Ratna Pathak Shah, Atul Kulkarni, Ayesha Jhulka
Directors: Aatish Kapadia, Jamnadas Majethia (JD)
Producers: Jamnadas Majethia (JD), Aatish Kapadia
Production Company: Hats Off Productions
9. Hush Hush (Hindi)
The lives of five women intersect in unexpected ways when an unforeseen event unravels the façade of their lives.
Key Cast: Juhi Chawla, Ayesha Jhulka, Soha Ali Khan, Karishma Tanna, Shahana Goswami, Kritika Kamra
Directors: Tanuja Chandra, Ashish Pandey, Kopal Naithani
Writers: Story - Shikhaa Sharma, Ashish Mehta; Screenplay; Ashish Mehta; Dialogues - Juhi Chaturvedi
Production Company: Abundantia Entertainment
10. Indian Police Force (Hindi)
An action-thriller 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.
Key Cast: Sidharth Malhotra, Shilpa Shetty, Vivek Oberoi, Isha Talwar
Creator: Rohit Shetty
Directors: Rohit Shetty and Sushwanth Prakash
Writers: Screenplay - Rohit Shetty, Anusha Nandakumar, Sandeep Saket; Dialogues - Anusha Nandakumar, Sandeep Saket, Ayush Trivedi
Production Company: Rohit Shetty Picturez and Reliance Entertainment
11. 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.
Key Cast: Tamannaah, Suhail Nayyar, Aashim Gulati, Anya Singh, Hussain Dalal, Samvedna Suwalka, Sayan Banerjee
Director: Arunima Sharma
Writers: Arunima Sharma, Hussain Dalal, Abbas Dalal
Production Company: Maddock Films
12. 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.
Key Cast: Prosenjit Chatterjee, Aditi Rao Hyadri, Aparshakti Khurana, Wamiqa Gabi
Creators: Vikramaditya Motwane, Soumik Sen
Director: Vikramaditya Motwane
Writer: Atul Sabharwal
Production Company: Reliance Entertainment Studios
13.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.
Key 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, Chitrangda Singh
Directors: Shonali Bose, Hansal Mehta, Vishal Bhardwaj, Alankrita Shrivastava, Dhruv Sehgal, 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, Nupur Asthana
Production Company: Pritish Nandy Communications
Executive Producer: Rangita Pritish Nandy
Co-Executive Producer: Ishita Pritish Nandy
14. PI Meena (Hindi)
A young, troubled, female private investigator gets thrown into a world where she has to fathom the unfathomable and find herself.
Key Cast: Tanya Maniktala, Jisshu Sengupta, Vinay Pathak, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Samir Soni
Director: Debaloy Bhattacharya
Writer: Arindam Mitra
Production Company: QED Films
15. 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.
Key Cast: Priyanshu Painyuli, Shruthy Menon, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Kubbra Sait, Manu Rishi Chadha and Kashyap Sanghari
Creators: Navdeep Singh, Devika Bhagat
Director: Navdeep Singh
Writers: Navdeep Singh, Devika Bhagat
Production Company: Offroad Films
Unscripted Original Series
1. This is AP Dhillon
An all-access reality documentary based on AP Dhillon – the breakout star of the global Punjabi hip hop scene. Through this series we go behind the sensation of Dhillon, to tell a story which celebrates brown identity like no other.
Production Company: Wild Sheep Content & Brown Munde Inc.
Executive Producers: Erik Barmack & Kevin Buttar
Executive Producer: AP Dhillon
2. Cinema... Marte Dum Tak (Hindi)
A docuseries that explores the lives and times of four cult filmmakers from the world of camp cinema as they set out to make a film they’ve always dreamt of.
Key Cast: J Neelam, Kishan Shah, Dilip Gulati, Vinod Talwar
Production Company: Vice Media
Executive Producer: Vasan Bala
3. Dancing on The Grave (Hindi)
A true-crime investigative series that tells the story of a sensational crime with access to exclusive interviews, shocking footage and the perpetrator himself.
Director: Patrick Graham
Writers: Patrick Graham & Kanishka Deo
Production Company: India Today Productions
4. India Love Project (Hindi)
This is a docuseries that shares the inspiring love stories of real people from across the country where each episode tells an unusual yet hopeful story through the eyes of the real couples.
Production Company: Dharmatic Entertainment
Returning Series: Breathe: Into The Shadows, Comicstaan, Four More Shots Please!, Made in Heaven, Mirzapur, Paatal Lok, Mumbai Diaries, Panchayat and The Family Man.
Amazon Original Movies
1. Aye Watan…Mere Watan (Hindi)
Inspired by true events, it is the story of a young girl who became uniquely instrumental to the Indian Freedom Struggle.
Director: Kannan Iyer
Writer: Darab Farooqui
Production Company: Dharmatic Entertainment
2. Maja Maa (Hindi)
A warm, funny story set in Baroda about a loving mother who unwittingly becomes a hurdle to her son’s marriage plans and contests societal norms.
Key Cast: Madhuri Dixit Nene, Gajraj Rao, Ritwik Bhowmik, Barkha Singh, Srishti Shrivastava, Sheeba Chaddha, Rajit Kapur and Simone Singh
Director: Anand Tiwari
Writer: Sumit Batheja
Production Company: Leo Media Collective, Amritpal Singh Bindra
Special Collaboration
Tiku Weds Sheru (Hindi)
Tiku wed Sheru is a roller coaster love story of two survivors who, inspite of overwhelming odds, have a great zest to live and celebrate life.
Key Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Avneet Kaur
Director: Sai Kabir
Writers: Amit Tiwari, Sai Kabir
Production Company: Manikarnika Films