New Delhi: OTT has become the most popular medium of entertainment today. With high-octane performances and big stars coming into the space, OTT platforms always have exciting entertainment to offer. Let’s take a look at some action-packed web series that are all set to hit the OTT platform in 2023.
1) fake
Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor is all set to make his OTT debut with Raj and DK’s much-awaited series Farzi. The plot of the crime thriller revolves around an aspiring artist who is dragged into a high-stakes job. But with a task force officer determined to stop him, the fast and paced series hopes to keep you glued to the screen till the very end. Apart from Farzi Kapoor, which is slated to release in February 2023, it will also star Vijay Sethupathi, Raashi Khanna, Kay Kay Menon and Regina Cassandra in key roles.
2) Breakdown aka Pages
After giving us a gritty and episodic drama film on Gandhi titled Ra’s Metanoia, NY based award winning director Ram Alladi is back with a female oriented poly-patriotic drama ‘Panne’, which seeks to bring alive one such story. tries to navigate the journey as a woman. She tries to establish her social identity. Spanning the period from border partition through India’s 1960 independence, the political narrative drama closely looks at the challenges of identity and the juxtaposition of the personal freedom of the protagonist versus the social freedom of the newly independent nation. Starring emerging Indian talents Kalpana Tiwari, Pankaj Munshi, Anand Rangarajan, Vijaya Posala, Shilpa Das, Prasad Kamalanabh and Sam Mukherjee, Panne is expected to premiere later this year.
3) Indian Police Force
Another Bollywood actor who is all set to make a grand entry on OTT is Sidharth Malhotra. The Shershaah actor will team up with Shilpa Shetty and Vivek Oberoi for renowned filmmaker Rohit Shetty’s Indian Police Force. But what makes Indian Police Force a talking point is that it is an extension of Shetty’s popular Cop Universe (Singham, Simmba and Sooryavanshi) on OTT.
4) The Night Manager
Aditya Roy Kapur is another popular name in the Hindi film industry who is all set to make his presence felt in the digital world. The 37-year-old actor teams up with Sobhita Dhulipala and Anil Kapoor for Sandeep Modi’s web series, which is inspired by the Primetime Emmy Award-winning series The Night Manager. Kapoor will play a role essayed by Tom Hiddleston in the English version.
5) Scam 2003: The Telgi Story
After enthralling the audience with Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story, filmmaker Hansal Mehta has collaborated with Tushar Hiranandani for yet another gripping tale based on the life of Abdul Karim Telgi. While Gagan Dev Riyar has been roped in to play the lead role in the upcoming web series, Telgi’s interesting journey from a fruit seller to the biggest scam artist of the country will keep you hooked.