New Delhi: Upcoming shows and films to be screened on Netflix were unveiled on Saturday during its annual fan event Tudum. The Indian leg of the event was hosted by Zakir Khan and Prajakta Kohli. Among the shows and films whose teasers were unveiled were Vishal Bhardwaj’s Khufiya, Raj and DK’s Guns and Gulaabs, and Hansal Mehta’s Scoop, among many others.
Khufiya
Vishal Bhardwaj’s Khufiya has Tabu, Ali Fazal and Wamiqa Gabbi. The film is inspired by true events and is based on the popular espionage novel ‘Escape to Nowhere’ by Amar Bhushan. The film presents the story of Krishna Mehra, a RAW operative who is assigned to track down the mole selling India’s defence secrets. The teaser has Tabu, who plays a dual role of a lover and a spy in the film, giving a monologue which ends with a hint of a mystery.
Soup
This Abhishek Chaubey directorial is a dark comedy-drama starring Manoj Bajpayee and Konkona Sensharma. The first teaser of Soup has Konkona as Swathi Shetty who cooks up a mysterious plan and involves Bajpayee in it. What follows next is a series of murders. Bajpayee shared the teaser on Twitter and wrote, “@konkona and I have found ourselves in a #Soup and we couldn’t be more excited about it! 🍲 Soup, is coming soon only on @netflix_in!”
This Abhishek Chaubey directorial is a dark comedy-drama starring Manoj Bajpayee and Konkona Sensharma. The first teaser of Soup has Konkona as Swathi Shetty who cooks up a mysterious plan and involves Bajpayee in it. What follows next is a series of murders. Bajpayee shared the teaser on Twitter and wrote, “@konkona and I have found ourselves in a #Soup and we couldn’t be more excited about it! 🍲 Soup, is coming soon only on @netflix_in!”
Monica O My Darling
The teaser of Monica O My Darling, starring Rajkummar Rao, Radhika Apte, Huma Qureshi and Sikandar Kher in the lead roles, was also unveiled during Netflix’s annual fan event. The teaser has Huma performing cabaret at a restaurant. She is soon joined by Rajkummar. The dark comedy film is helmed by Vasan Bala. The official logline of the film reads, “How far would you go to make it big? Are you ready to face the good, the ugly and the extremely ugly on the way?”
Guns & Gulaabs
This Rajkummar Rao-Dulquer Salmaan starrer is about “misfits of the world” and blends the romance of the 90s with a crime thriller. The teaser concludes with the words, “Everyone has a dark side, and sometimes it’s delicious.”
Qala
This Anvitaa Dutt directorial marks the debut of Irrfan Khan’s son Babil and stars Tripti Dimri and Swastika Mukherjee as a daughter-mother duo. Set in the 1930s and late 1940s, Qala explores the tragic past of an eponymous singer. As per its official description, the film is a ‘heartbreaking story of a mother-daughter duo’. The official logline of the film reads, “A daughter and a mother’s love is sacred but complicated at the same time. How far will a daughter go to seek her matriarch’s love?”
