Gully Boy breakthrough artiste Vijay Varma and the gorgeous Radhika Apte will soon be seen together in a sci-fi comedy series from Disney+ Hotstar. Both actors are powerful performers who have carved distinct spaces for themselves with some different and groundbreaking projects. PeepingMoon.com has exclusively learned that Vijay and Radhika will be exploring a different world in the yet untitled series to be directed by Anand Gandhi who helmed the National Award-winning Ship of Theseus (2013) and wrote the screenplay for Kajol’s Helicopter Eela (2018).
Vijay, who has mostly been seen playing grey characters, will be essaying the role of a police officer from the future in this multi-part series. Radhika is also said to be playing a role she hasn’t done before. A biological science-fiction drama with comic undertones, the project is billed as a never-attempted-before subject and is being made on a huge scale with high VFX and CGI. Anand’s studio Memesys Lab, which he co-founded in 2015 to make high-concept, experimental cinema, is backing this series.
The director has been writing this project for three years now and has also brought on board a scientist as his client adviser and executive producer. He was reportedly making an English feature film on the subject earlier but decided to turn it into a Hindi web-series after Hotstar okayed it last year. The shooting began in February but was stopped after the nationwide lockdown due to Coronavirus. The makers are now waiting for things to settle down before they resume shooting.
Vijay, after getting much-deserved limelight through Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy, is living his dream. He has starred in Karan Johar’s segment of Netflix’s Ghost Stories, Tiger Shroff’s Baaghi 3, Imtiaz Ali’s She and was recently seen in ZEE5’s Bamfaad. He also has Mira Nair’s A Suitable Boy, Hurdang and Amazon Prime’s Reema Kagti-directed Fallen lined up to release in the coming months. Radhika Apne, meanwhile, has Raat Akeli Hai with Nawazuddin Siddiqui scheduled to release this year. She will also be seen playing a spy in Apple TV’s Shantaram.
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