Filmmaker Pushpendra Nath Misra on Wednesday introduced his upcoming Netflix sequence Choona, starring Jimmy Sheirgill, Namit Das, and Monika Panwar.
The present will mark the Ghoomketu director’s foray into the long-form sequence format.
A heist comedy-drama, Choona follows an unlikely group of people that band collectively to take down a standard enemy — a corrupt politician who has wronged them — utilizing ‘jugaad’ as their solely weapon.
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The ensemble forged additionally consists of Aashim Gulati, Vikram Kochhar, Gyanendra Tripathi, Chandan Roy, Atul Srivastava and Niharika Lyra Dutt.
Talking in regards to the present, Pushpendra Nath Misra stated, “What comes to your mind when you hear the word Choona? For me, it is the quintessentially Indian flavour of ‘choona lagaana’ (deceive someone).”
“The excitement of discovering who deceived whom and how they did it is incomparable, especially when it’s the weak pitted against the powerful. There’s no synonym that can do justice to this feeling. Since we are all about the drama and rooting for the underdogs,” the director added.
Pushpendra Nath stated the present is the proper mix of the heist style with the “lightness of a comedy”. “Put this together with amazingly talented actors in a long-form series format, and you get ‘Choona’,” he concluded.