![]() As police and loved ones search for answers to her disappearance, her perfectly crafted facade is stripped away, revealing hidden truths and painful lies in the life of an iconic actress.” “This is a suspenseful family drama about a global superstar, wife, and mom who suddenly vanishes without a trace. But clicking on the link to Finding Anamika‘s Netflix title page recently listed the series name as “ The Star” for several days before the link stopped working altogether. ![]() A teaser introducing the series Finding Anamika was included in the “India Spotlight” portion of September’s TUDUM global fan event. Finding Anamika/The Starīollywood icon Madhuri Dixit’s first streaming series was created just for her - and it may have just undergone a name change. Actors associated with the project include Suchitra Pillai, Rahul Bose, Himanee Bhatia, and Vihaan Samat, who has appeared in the Netflix Original series Bombay Begums and Mismatched. One of the new series announced as part of the partnership is Dabba Cartel, described as “a story of five housewives who run a high stakes secret cartel.”įarhan Akhtar’s Excel Entertainment and his sister Zoya Akhtar’s Tiger Baby Films collaborate on the teen romance Eternally Confused and Eager for Love, which is already in post-production. The series is being directed by Pushpendra Nath Misra, who previously wrote and directed the Netflix Original Hindi series Taj Mahal 1989.Įxcel Entertainment - the 20-year-old production house run by Ritesh Sidhwani and actor/director Farhan Akhtar - recently entered into a multi-year partnership with Netflix (after producing three hit Hindi series for Amazon). Filming was purportedly well underway before the Netflix India Twitter account announced the project in mid-June. Jimmy Shergill leads the cast of the comedy heist series Choona, set within the world of Uttar Pradesh politics. Let’s hope this gets the series - slated to consist of two 9-episode seasons - back on track so we can return to Mahishmati. That led Netflix to scrap the work that had been done, double the budget, bring in two new directors, and replace Mrunal Thakur in the lead role with Punjabi actress Wamiqa Gabbi after Thakur dropped out due to scheduling conflicts. A large portion of the series based on Anand Neelkantan’s novel The Rise of Sivagami was already filmed when Netflix decided they were unhappy with the direction the show was going. Gun, on the other hand, is marched into a hair-raising inquisition at GCHQ, and then into a police station, and then informed that she can’t reveal details about her work to her defending counsel, and then finds that her Turkish asylum-seeker husband, Yasar ( Adam Bakri), has been mysteriously shuffled up the list for imminent deportation.We’re still waiting on this prequel that was announced back in 2018. It is his honest lust for a good story that causes him to publish.īut these journalists’ lives are basically comfortable. Conleth Hill plays the Observer’s editor Roger Alton who, despite his pro-government line, comes out of this rather well. Rhys Ifans plays renowned reporter Ed Vulliamy as a passionately angry critic of the government Matt Smith plays Martin Bright – who wrote the original story – and Hanako Footman plays young journalist Nicole Mowbray, whose chaotic, innocent mistake in transcribing the email, replacing its American spellings with British ones, caused the story to be initially rubbished by online conspiracists in the US. ![]() ![]() The working life of the Observer is boisterously and affectionately represented. Gun is still young enough not to have made an ineradicable career investment in GCHQ or formed loyalty links to its upper reaches. Most importantly of all, she is young – like Edward Snowden, or Chelsea Manning, or Sarah Tisdall, jailed in 1984 for revealing details about American cruise missiles in Britain. She has an idealism, work ethic and professionalism that made her an excellent intelligence operative in the first place, and yet it is precisely these things that made her rebel. Keira Knightley gives a focused, plausible and sympathetic performance as Gun, and the film shows that she is in many ways the classic whistleblower. Gun herself was prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act. The Observer’s front page on 2 March 2003.Īlthough it did not stop the war, as Gun dreamed of doing, it played an important part in turning press and public opinion.
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