OTT platform Hotstar will take a big leap in content with its upcoming show, which is set to bring stories of Indian celebrities on one stage. Star India has announced the launch of Hotstar Specials, a content foray that promises to be bold and ambitious.
The first set of the show will feature best storytellers of India, including Shekhar Kapur, Neeraj Pandey, Kabir Khan, Nikkhil Advani, Ram Madhvani, Venkat Prabhu, Sudhir Mishra, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Nagesh Kukunoor, Mahesh Manjrekar, Vishal Furia, Rohan Sippy, Debbie Rao, Sharad Devarajan and Salman Khan.
Speaking about the project, Sanjay Gupta, MD of Star India, said, “Star has always challenged conventions and been at the forefront of content reinvention in India. With the mobile phone leading an explosion in the number of screens in the country, we feel that our content also needs to reinvent and boldly move forward. With Hotstar Specials we hope to create the biggest Indian stories delivered to a billion screens. To bring this vision alive, we are proud to partner with a stellar line up of talent who are headlining our first set of Hotstar Specials.”
The forthcoming show plants to will treat the audience with an extensive variety of Indian stories, “mounted on a big scale, unconstrained by format”. “The ambition is not to make this a narrow or niche play but to explode into the consciousness of the country in an unprecedented way,” says the company.
Hotstar Specials will enable filmmakers to tell their most passionate stories and provide them a great reach globally. The stories will provide a burst of variety across genres and formats and will be available in seven languages.