Escaype Live trailer out: Jaaved Jaaferi, Siddharth, Shweta Tripathi in social media thriller

Escaype Live, a new Disney+ Hotstar series, is about Indians trying to win fame and fortune on a social media app. Jaaved Jaaferi plays the founder of Escaype Live, a popular social media app where strait-laced Siddharth comes to work. "Bloody mallu," snarls a colleague, whom Siddharth reminds this is Karnataka.

The story features a bunch of content creators participating in a life-changing competition announced by the app. The characters range from a parkour expert to a cam girl to an underage dancer. As the stakes rise and ethical concerns are brushed aside, the participants get embroiled in a dangerous game blurring the line between the real and the virtual.

Escaype Live also features Shweta Tripathi Sharma, Swastika Mukherjee, Plabita Borthakur, Waluscha D Souza, Ritvik Sahore, Sumedh Mudgalkar, Geetika Vidya Ohlyan and others. The series is written by Jaya Mishra and Siddharth Kumar Tewary (also the director).

Speaking about the series, Siddharth, who plays the lead, shared, “What drew me to Escaype Live was the script and my character. It excited me that it dealt with social media, and while one has the freedom to do as they please, sometimes with anonymity and sometimes without, it also always brings up the ethical question of what is right and what is wrong. That to me is what makes the show explosive, yet exciting.”

Jaaved Jaaferi feels the story captures the technology climate impacting our lives.

"The show is layered with intricately crafted characters, who have dual personas in reality and as content creators. Escaype Live is an intriguing tale that captures the majority of contemporary humankind’s desire to create a name, be remembered, and succeed; sometimes going to any length to achieve that," he said.

Check out the trailer here -