Applause Entertainment which has previously adapted acclaimed International Television shows such as Criminal Justice, Hostages, The Office, Kvodo among others has taken the adaptation rights of one more popular foreign series. Peepingmoon.com has exclusively learned that the Sameer Nair-led content company will adapt the critically-acclaimed French show, Call My Agent for the Indian audience. The studio, promoted by the Aditya Birla Group, has joined hands with the Indian arm of Paris-based company Banijay Group to develop the Indian version of the show that debuted in 2015 on a French TV channel and became a global sensation when it dropped on Netflix. 

Call My Agent revolves around the personal and professional lives of a tight-knit, dysfunctional team of a Parisian talent agency whose business afloat after the sudden death of its founder. The creative team at Applause Entertainment and Banijay Asia are currently working on adapting its context to a customised Indian setting. It's believed that the Indian version will chronicle the controversial real-life stories of Bollywood film agents who control the lives of the stars. 

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Filmmaker Shaad Ali who's previously directed romantic dramas like Saathiya (2002), Bunty Aur Babli (2005) and Soorma (2018), and recently made his web debut with an MX Player show, Pawan & Pooja has been roped in to direct the Indian adaptation. The director is currently developing the script with a writer's team and will shoot for the series after completing his next feature film. He is next doing a quirky romantic-comedy with Diljit Dosanjh and Yami Gautam that will go on floors in November. 

Call My Agent joins the list of many foreign shows adaptations that Applause Entertainment has planned for the next year. The company is already working towards bringing the Indian versions of Israeli show Fauda, British crime drama Luther and American drama UnREAL among others. Banijay Asia is also said to be developing the adaptations of Belgium TV series The Mole, Turkish drama Public Enemy and American thriller series Damages for Indian web viewers. 

Interestingly, Karan Johar was also working on a series loosely based on this French workplace comedy-drama last year but the project didn't materialize after its original producers refused to sell the adaptation rights.