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  Anurag Kashyap with Amitabh Bachchan
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  Man Jit Singh, Amitabh Bachchan, Anurag Kashyap, Sneha Rajani, N.P. Singh and Deepak Dhar

In a move to personify magic on the small screen, Sony Entertainment Television today announced the debut of the living legend of Indian cinema, Amitabh Bachchan as an Actor for the first time in a fiction series on Indian Television. He will play the lead protagonist in a finite fiction series that will go on air this year on Sony Entertainment Television. The show will be co- produced by his production company Saraswati Creations in collaboration with Endemol India. Helming the show will be ace film maker Anurag Kashyap as the Creative Director. He will lend a special creative language to showcase Mr. Bachchan’s supreme talent. Working with the legendary Amitabh Bachchan, Sony Entertainment Television will once again reinvent the television space in India, by giving the small screen a first-of-its-kind finite fiction series showcasing an explosive combination of the finest industry talents ever.
 
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Man Jit Singh, Chief Executive Officer, Multi Screen Media said “Sony has always been instrumental in innovating & creating numerous milestones for the Indian Entertainment Industry. It has been our constant endeavor to create clutter breaking and novel content for our viewers and each show that we have launched reiterates our philosophy. In keeping with this, we are pleased to announce another unique association with Mr. Amitabh Bachchan which will further strengthen our relationship with him and take his phenomenal talent into Indian homes by putting him in the lead role in a television fiction show. This finite fiction show is bound to reinvent the television space.”
 
An enthusiastic Mr. Amitabh Bachchan said, “I am delighted to be a part of this venture.”

Mr. Deepak Dhar, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Endemol India, further added,  “Changing the level of the game once again, Endemol India in collaboration with Saraswati Creations introduces for the first time on television, Mr. Amitabh Bachchan, in what is sure to be an
epic fiction show. An amalgamation of an ingenious original script, great production values, the inimitable style of Anurag Kashyap and the stupendous talent and persona of Mr. Bachchan; this finite fiction series is sure to be blockbuster television! This show is yet another initiative by Endemol in its ongoing endeavor, towards creating endearing and innovative programming for Indian Television audiences.”
 
“Working with Mr. Bachchan is every director’s dream! When Endemol approached me with a great concept and the novel idea of launching Mr. Bachchan for the first time in an original fictional series on Indian Television, I jumped at the opportunity. This series will change the way India sees television and will open the doors for a new genre in television entertainment” said Mr. Anurag Kashyap, Creative Director of the series.
 

Lights, Camera, Action… and the wait for the biggest blockbuster television series begins…