Filmmaker Navdeep Singh has been keeping a low profile since the box office debacle of his last release, Laal Kaptaan. The Saif Ali Khan-starrer period action drama was highly criticized for its tedious narrative and failed to generate eyeballs among the audience. Three years on, the NH10 director is all geared up for his next project. Peepingmoon.com has exclusively learned that Navdeep Singh is next creating and directing a web series for Amazon Prime Video. The yet-untitled show will mark his foray into the OTT world after 15 years of a career in feature films.
Navdeep’s debut web project is said to be a thriller drama series and will star Priyanshu Painyuli in the lead. Priyanshu, who has managed to slip into the hearts of audiences with his varied characters in films such as Bhavesh Joshi Superhero, Extraction, and Rashmi Rocket, will play a small-town guy who’s plunged into darkness post a shocking event. The show also stars a slew of young and veteran OTT actors in the pivotal roles, but their identities haven’t been revealed yet. Screenwriter Devika Bhagat, known for writing Navdeep’s Manorama: Six Feet Under, Bachna Ae Haseeno, Jab Tak Hai Jaan, I, Me Aur Main, and Four More Shots Please, among others, serves as a co-creator on this show, produced by Khalil Bachooali’s Offroad Films. The independently-owned, creatively-led ad agency is stepping into long-format production with this series. The project has already gone on floors and is currently being shot in Udaipur, Rajasthan.
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The Navdeep Singh series will mark Priyanshu Painyuli’s third collaboration with Amazon Prime Video after the second season of Mirzapur and the recently released anthology, Unpaused: Naya Safar, which delved uniquely into the relatable challenges the pandemic has inflicted on everyone. Priyanshu has also done two films for Netflix (Upstarts and Extraction) and will next be seen as an army officer in Raja Krishna Menon’s war drama, Pippa, alongside Ishaan Khatter and Mrunal Thakur. The film traces the life story of Brigadier Balram Singh Mehta of the 45th Cavalry tank squadron, who fought on the eastern front during the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971, and releases in theatres on December 9.
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