Kirti Kulhari, who will next be seen playing a strong-willed single mother in Season 2 of Amazon Prime’s first all women protagonist Indian original Four More Shots Please, has signed one more web series. PeepingMoon.com has exclusively learned that the Mission Mangal and Uri: The Surgical Strike actress has bagged the lead role in Disney+ Hotstar’s second season of Criminal Justice.
Commissioned by Applause Entertainment and produced by BBC Studios India, the mystery drama series’ new edition promises to be as engaging as the first that aired last year to great response from audiences and critics. It will be told through a female point of view. Unlike the first part which revolved around Vikrant Massey’s character who is accused of murder after an edgy one night stand, the second season will follow the journey of a girl who after stabbing her abusive husband goes through a tough trail of the criminal justice system.
While Kirti has come on board to play the lead girl, Pankaj Tripathi, Anupriya Goenka and Mita Vashist have been retained to reprise their characters from the first part, a source close to the project said. The new season is being directed by Arjun Mukherjee and Rohan Sippy. Arjun previously directed Sharman Joshi and Richa Chaddha in 3 Storeys (2018) for Excel Entertainment and Rohan helmed Hotstar’s The Office adaptation last year. They have replaced Tigmanshu Dhulia and Vishal Furia who jointly directed the first season of Criminal Justice from the screenplay by Shridhar Raghavan.
Criminal Justice Season 2 is near completion and only a few weeks’ schedule remains which will be shot once the ongoing nationwide Covid-19 lockdown ends. The show is an official adaptation of BBC’s 2008 British Television series by the same name. The original was also adapted in the US as an eight-episode mini-series called The Night Of.
