An Amazon Prime Video action-drama, is an upcoming original series starring Manoj Bajpayee in the lead role. Bajpayee plays Srikant Tiwari, an intelligence agent in 'The Family Man' where he is plucked from his middle-class life to take on a dangerous mission for his country. Created by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. this series essentially focusses on the geo-politics and counter-terrorism plots of South Asia and in the sub-continent. Today speaking to the Asian Voice, the 'Stree' director discusses about creating content around socially relevant issues and the increasing audience reception for spycraft drama.
“The more I read about these intelligence officer characters, I realised that these were largely ordinary people like us who had to balance their family lives and deal with middle-class problems while doing an extraordinary job.
“Most of these ideas stemmed from the subjects being discussed in the newspapers but gradually we started meeting ex-Raw agents. We also researched around the previous missions that were carried out by our agencies and therefore, gauged an understanding of the operations of the bureaucracies,” said Raj Nidimoru.
The two-time national award winner, Manoj Bajpayee had earlier emphasised around the need for creating content and series “sincerely and sensitively but also to tell a unique story — something that concerns the common man and his uncommon life with his extraordinary struggle.”
Speaking about casting Manoj, the director said, “I believe that Manoj is a great representation of the common man who is a perfect fit to portray a grounded Intelligence Officer on screen.”
The series also stars Priyamani, Gul Panag, Sharib Hashmi and Sharad Kelkar, among others and clashes with Red Chillies Entertainment 'Bard of Blood' an upcoming Indian spy thriller web series based on the 2015 espionage novel of the same name by Bilal Siddiqi. The Family Man is slated to release on September 20, in Hindi, English, Tamil, Telugu, German, Japanese, French, Italian, Brazilian, Portuguese, and Spanish, exclusively on Amazon Prime Video across 200 countries and territories.
