Global entertainment studio International Art Machine is all set to venture into India with a great lineup fronted by Shekhar Kapur, Preity Zinta, Amish Tripathi, Dibakar Banerjee and Suparn S. Varma. The studio will present Shiva, a series adaptation of Amish Tripathi’s bestselling Shiva Trilogy novels set in the land of Meluha, beginning with the first book “The Immortals of Meluha,” which will be directed by ace filmmaker Shekhar Kapur. Suparn S. Varma will serve as showrunner and will also direct.

On the big collab, Shekhar said, “Amish’s Shiva Trilogy has been India’s great publishing sensation, crossing every age and class. It’s not just mythology, it’s modern storytelling at its best. Lending itself to a beautiful international series.” Suparn added, “The Meluha trilogy by Amish Tripathi is a genre-defining book and has become part of the pop-culture of the country. I loved the reimagining and the world-building. The scale of vision and the ambition of our show visually and emotionally is as huge a task but we want to bring to audiences a vision that has never been seen before on screens.”

The studio is also making a thriller The Kitty Party created by Preity G. Zinta. The actress said, “’The Kitty Party’ is a female driven murder mystery that moonlights between being a dramedy and thriller. Too early to comment more except that we cannot wait to get started. I’m sure we will have as much fun filming this as we had putting it together.”

Next up is political drama Gods from acclaimed director Dibakar Banerjee. The filmmaker said, "I’m finally getting my secret wish – a family soap that will upend the genre – and channeling some of the best of Indian TV from the eighties and the nineties.”

(Source: Variety)