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Made in Heaven Season 2

After a remarkably successful first season on Amazon Prime, the second season will see Tara (Sobhita Dhulipala) and Karan (Arjun Mathur) return with their wedding planning company, a superb device to enter the intimate spaces of India’s upper class and observe their convenient hypocrisies. Showrunners Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti are also a part of this encore.

Scam 2003

After the roaring success of Scam 1992 that put SonyLIV on the map, Hansal Mehta is returning with a deep dive into Abdul Karim Telgi’s counterfeit stamp-paper scam, one that amounted to reportedly thousands of crores of rupees. It’s still under wraps about who will play the title role in the show, but if Pratik Gandhi’s meteoric rise is a marker, then we should be ready for yet another career-making performance.

Panchayat Season 2

One of the best Indian shows out there, it will be interesting to see how the second season plays out on Amazon Prime. Starring a superb ensemble cast including Raghubir Yadav, Neena Gupta, Vikas Kumar, and TVF mainstay Jitendra Kumar, everyone’s already intrigued about which new ‘issues’ will the second season pick up, and hopefully the show will retain its light touch from the first season.

Heeramandi

Sanjay Leela Bhansali is set to make his debut on an OTT platform with Heeramandi on Netflix. Set in pre-Independence India, it is meant to be a tribute to the ‘courtesans of Lahore’ and a project that he’s nursed for over a decade, Bhansali will be adapting it into a limited series. The cast is under wraps, but knowing Bhansali, it is sure to bear his trademark extravagance.

Rudra: The Edge of Darkness

Ajay Devgn will be taking a break from his recent stint of espousing chest-thumping nationalism on the big screen to star in the Indian remake of the British psychological thriller series Luther. Set to stream on Disney+Hotstar, the film is a profile of a cop obsessed with violent crimes losing himself in the cases he’s investigating, which takes a toll on his personal life. It would be good to see Devgn going back to being an actor (a good one too!).

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