MUMBAI: South star Siddharth Suryanarayan, finest identified to Hindi audiences by means of movies “Rang De Basanti” and “Chashme Baddoor”, is ready to star within the internet sequence “Escaype Reside”.
Billed as a “tech thriller”, the present can be produced by Siddharth Kumar Tewary’s One Life Studios.
Tewary, identified for backing mythological reveals like 2013’s “Mahabharat” and “Karmaphal Daata Shani” (2016), can even co-direct the sequence with Abhishek Sengupta.
“Escaype Reside” follows the lives of 5 common Indians who use a preferred live-streaming app to attain in a single day fame and fortune.
Suryanarayan, who made his digital debut in 2019 with the Netflix dystopian sequence “Leila”, mentioned he’s excited to get again to work.
“It is a actually fascinating plot and the way in which Siddharth and Abhishek have panned the story out truthfully depicting India’s younger Indian and their digital affinity simply blew my thoughts.
“I decide tasks that I instinctively relate to and if it is a script that strikes me. I am very excited concerning the scope of ‘Escaype Reside’ and the way it will current me to my Hindi viewers,” he mentioned in an announcement.
Within the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the actor mentioned the workforce will be certain that all essential security protocols are adopted.
“I am additionally glad to have chosen this tech thriller to regale audiences with regardless of how robust the 12 months has been for everybody as a result of pandemic.
We have to return on the market and do our bit whereas guaranteeing we’re sustaining each essential security and sanitisation protocols,” he added.
Manufacturing on the sequence is predicted to start this month.