In 2023, a few actors like Shahid Kapoor, Kajol, Anil Kapoor, Aditya Roy Kapoor and Dulquer Salmaan will make their streaming debut along with the release of the second season of some of the most acclaimed shows.
The Good Wife—Pyaar, Kanoon, Dhokha (Disney+ Hotstar)
After her Netflix film (Tribhanga), Kajol will be seen making her series debut with The Good Wife, an adaptation of the popular US TV drama of the same name. For the first time Kajol will be seen as a lawyer. Directed by Suparn Varma, whose credits include The Family Man 2, and produced by Banijay Asia, it is considered as Hotstar’s biggest offerings in 2023.
Farzi (Amazon Prime Video)
After the hit horror comedy film Stree and the Family Man, Raj & DK are back with their second series Farzi where the two have brought together Shahid Kapoor, Vijay Sethupathi (most likely his Hindi-language debut), Kay Kay Menon and Amol Palekar among others for racy thriller.
Made in Heaven 2 (Amazon Prime Video)
With Made In Heaven, Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti gave us the drama about two wedding planners presenting the privileged and middle class New Delhi with a perfect mix of socio-cultural insight and wry humour. The jodi is back to deliver an equally good second season which will unfold more weddings with drama, with talented Sobhita Dhulipala and Arjun Mathur setting BFF goals.
Rocket Boys 2 (SonyLIV)
Director Abhay Panny made the impossible task of engaging the audience with plenty of science talk with Rocket Boys and it garnered positive reviews. The season two of Rocket Boys will continue to showcase the journeys of Dr Homi Bhabha (Jim Sarbh) and Dr Vikram Sarabhai (Ishwak Singh) but is ikely to devote more screen time to the rise of Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (played by Arjun Radhakrishnan).
Scam 2003: The Telgi Story (SonyLIV)
After the success of The Harshad Mehta Story that changed the fortunes of both Pratik Gandhi and director and showrunner Hansal Mehta, everyone’s eyes are on his next show. The makers this time will work on Abdul Karim Telgi, the mastermind of the Stamp Paper scam of 2003. Like the previous one, this too is based on a book, Reporter Ki Diary, by journalist Sanjay Singh, who broke the Telgi story.
Soup (Netflix)
Manoj Bajpayee and Konkana Sensharma, two stellar actors will be seen together in a dark comedy crime show, which is loosely based on a true-life incident. Directed by Abhishek Chaubey, whose filmography includes the Ishqiya films, Udta Punjab and Sonchiriya, makes this outing all the more exciting. Konkana plays Swathi Shetty, an incompetent cook who wants to own a restaurant, while Manoj is Prabhakar, the suspicious husband who discourages her with her aspirations.
Guns & Gulaabs (Netflix)
The writer-director Raj & DK to make their Netflix series debut with a crime comedy. Rajkummar Rao, Dulquer Salmaan, Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger and Hostel Daze fame) and Gulshan Devaiah are a bunch of misfits in what Netflix describes as “a deliciously wicked tale of crime, love and innocence that uniquely blends the romance of the 90s with a fast-paced crime-thriller”.