Consumption of content on digital media is at its peak. Youngsters today are interested in watching engaging and intriguing content on the internet and with many OTT platforms investing in bringing the international shows on one platform, this sector is at an all-time rise.
Many Bollywood celebrities have shown interest in either being a part of a digital show or a short film for the internet. Celebrities like Rajkummar Rao, Saif Ali Khan, Richa Chadha, Nimrat Kaur, Vivek Oberoi and many others have either played their cards and aced the game, or are planning to be a part of it soon. With production houses showing interests in making content for these platforms, actors too have now kept their options open.
As per the recent tweet by Shah Rukh Khan owned Red Chillies, the production house will now venture into digital shows soon. The first original series will be based on Bilal Siddiqi's book "The Bard of Blood. The multilingual thriller will be made in partnership with Netflix.
Red chillies entertainment shared the information on a tweet, posted on November 17 that read “Our first Original Series, in partnership with @netflix, is a multilingual thriller, based on @BilalS158’s book ‘The Bard of Blood’. @iamsrk @reedhastings @VenkyMysore @_GauravVerma@NetflixIndia”
Our first Original Series, in partnership with @netflix, is a multilingual thriller, based on @BilalS158’s book ’The Bard of Blood’. @iamsrk @reedhastings @VenkyMysore @_GauravVerma @NetflixIndia pic.twitter.com/zxz8TEhkqf
— Red Chillies Entertainment (@RedChilliesEnt) November 17, 2017
No further information about the same has been shared. However, this brings many questions to the forefront. Is Bollywood’s King Khan, Shah Rukh Khan too a part of the show as an actor? Hope, the answer to this is ‘Yes,’ but no affirmation about the same can be given at this moment.
Talking about the book, Bilal Siddiqi’s The Bard of Blood is a suspense thriller published in 2015 written with inputs and assistance from war correspondents, Indian and American intelligence agents.
The overview on publisher Penguin India reads, “The Valiant never taste of death but Once. A gripping thriller, researched with the assistance of US and Indian intelligence agents, war correspondents and crime writer S. Hussain Zaidi. Delhi's power circles are shocked to discover ex- Raw boss Sadiq Sheikh has been murdered. Kabir Anand is setting into his new life as a professor of Shakespear in Mumbai when a call from the PMO thrusts him back into the world he is trying to forget. A brilliant agent who served under Sadiq Sheikh, Kabir has been forced to leave RAW because of a disastrous mission in Balochistan in 2006 -- part of India's covert support of the Balochi rebels. Kabir must now revisit those ghosts, average his mentor and face his deadliest enemies - Mullah Omar and the ISI -- while racing against time to save his country."
A current employee of Red Chillies Entertainment, Bilal graduated in 2015 with a bachelor's degree in mass media from St. Xavier College, Mumbai.
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