Streaming
giant
Netflix
on
Tuesday
unveiled
their
new
slate
of
Original
series
with
superstar
Shahrukh
Khan
and
Anushka
Sharma
attached
as
producers
on
two
different
projects.
According
to
Netflix,
Shahrukh's
Red
Chillies
Entertainment
will
produce
zombie
horror
Betaal,
while
Anushka
and
Karnesh
Sharma's
Clean
Slate
Films
will
serve
as
executive
producers
on
Mai.
"This
is
my
second
collaboration
with
Netflix
after
'Bulbul'
and
we
are
again
looking
to
disrupt
the
kind
of
content
audiences
are
consuming.
We
at
Clean
Slate
Films
have
been
dedicated
to
making
clutter-breaking,
powerful
stories
since
our
first
production
and
we
are
looking
forward
to
push
the
content
envelope.
The
creative
freedom
to
be
able
to
translate
these
stories
to
screens
that
reach
a
global
audience
is
exciting
for
us,
which
is
why
Netflix
is
such
an
important
partner," Anushka
said
in
a
statement.
Mai
revolves
around
47-year-old
wife-and-mother,
Sheel,
who
finds
herself
accidentally
sucked
into
a
rabbit
hole
of
violence
and
power,
following
a
personal
tragedy.
The
series
is
penned
by
Atul
Mongia
along
with
Tamal
Sen,
Amita
Vyas,
with
Sudip
Sharma
as
a
creative
producer.
Shahrukh's
Betaal,
which
also
marks
the
actor's
second
collaboration
with
Netflix,
is
based
in
a
remote
village,
visited
by
two-century-old
Betaal,
a
British
Indian
Army
officer,
and
his
battalion
of
zombies.
"With
Indian
police
pitted
against
the
undead
army,
hapless
villagers
are
trapped
in
a
horrific,
edge-of-your-seat
conflict," the
plotline
read.
Patrick
Graham
is
attached
as
writer/director
and
showrunner,
along
with
Nikhil
Mahajan
as
the
director
and
Suhani
Kanwar
as
writer.
The
Original
will
be
executive-produced
by
Blumhouse,
known
to
design
some
of
the
best
horror
content,
and
Ivanhoe.
Apart
from
this,
Netflix
is
coming
with
Masaba
Masaba,
a
scripted
series
based
on
real-life
moments
from
fashion
designer
Masaba
Gupta's
life.
It
follows
her
unique
background,
the
diverse
worlds
she
straddles
across
fashion
and
family,
and
her
foray,
back
into
the
dating
world.
The
series
will
star
Masaba
alongside
her
mother,
veteran
actor
Neena
Gupta,
as
themselves.
The
genre-bending
show
is
created
and
produced
by
Ashvini
Yardi's
Viniyard
Films
and
will
be
directed
by
Sonam
Nair.
Alankrita
Shrivastava's
"Bombay
Begums" and
American
actor
and
director,
Ravi
Patel's
"Messy",
are
also
part
of
the
streaming
platform's
list
of
upcoming
series.
Bela
Bajaria,
VP,
International
Originals,
Netflix,
said
they
are
excited
to
present
these
entertaining
India-based
stories.
"India
is
home
to
some
of
the
world's
greatest
stories.
It's
been
thrilling
to
watch
these
amazing
storytellers
embrace
the
artistic
freedom
possible
at
Netflix
to
create
entertaining
stories.
Audiences
everywhere
will
love
these
five
inventive
series
set
in
stories
of
horror,
drama
and
comedy,"
Bajaria
said.
"Bombay
Begums"
revolves
around
five
women
from
different
generations
and
their
lives
in
contemporary
urban
India.
Created,
written
and
directed
by
Alankrita,
the
show
has
Chernin
Entertainment
and
Endemolshine
India
attached
as
executive
producers.
"Messy"
focuses
on
Mumbai's
rising
stand-up
comic,
Beanie,
who
struggles
to
balance
a
career
in
comedy
with
pleasing
a
yuppie
day-job
boss,
peculiar
best
friends
forever,
persistent
parents,
and
proposal-popping
boyfriend.
Patel
has
co-written
the
series
with
Neel
Shah.
It
is
co-produced
by
The
District's
David
Bernad
and
Ruben
Fleischer
and
Mutant
Films'
Seher
Aly
Latif
and
Shivani
Saran.