Next month, JioCinema Premium will broadcast the human drama series PILL starring Riteish Deshmukh. The motion poster was released earlier but now the platform has launched the trailer of this series that aims to reveal how pharmaceutical industry functions in our everyday life.
What is PILL about?
PILL introduces Prakash Chauhan played by Riteish Deshmukh who goes to great lengths to uncover entrenched corruption within India’s pharmaceutical sector. This show illustrates a pill’s journey to a person through different individuals ranging from influential pharma money makers, dirty medics and drug reps, bribe-happy medicine regulators, politicians, reporters and whistleblowers. Over time, tension escalates when Prakash confronts the scheming CEO of Pharma company depicted by Pavan Malhotra and wages an honest battle to find out the real cause behind a powerful network that prioritizes profit over patients. As good wrests with evil in this electrifying confrontation, Prakash’s pursuit for truth offers hope for common man to be more vigilant and informed given that we all depend on medicines and inoculations without any choices whatsoever.
Riteish Deshmukh, on making his web series debut, exults with excitement.
About starting out in this series, Ritesh stated: “it’s thrilling to enter the digital streaming world. there is a lot of weight that comes with a great story like Pill. It is fascinating to know the intricacies behind something as simple as a pill and how it affects our daily lives and well being. This journey has been very revealing. It is an honor working along side Raj Kumar Gupta and Ronnie Screwvala who have given their hearts out to this project. PRakash Chauhan is both simple and strong character and I believe his fight against corrupt pharma players will resonate with viewers”.
The show details from Producer Ronnie Screwvala and director Raj Kumar Gupta
Ronnie Screwvala also added, “We have worked hard to bring originality in concept and story telling through PILL- which looks at unseen landscapes and asks important questions. PILL not only aims at entertaining but also creates awareness among people. And now he brings this unmatched talent into web series for the first time around making it even more exciting.” As always it has been wonderful directing by Raj, who surfs skillfully across slow surfing boards Lastly the show’s release on JioCinema allows us the widest audience reach and together we look forward to bringing this powerful series to screens far and wide.
Raj Kumar Gupta said , “Celluloid has always been my medium of expression as I’ve made films across genres to bring different stories to my audiences.” —said Raj in a recent interview—“I’m looking forward to trying out long format content on OTT platforms”. And therefore ‘Pill’ needed longer form narrative approach which led me teaming up with JioCinema for this project,” said Mr. Gupta about doing a story like Pill via a longer format. This was one of the best experiences with Riteish, Ronnie and the team all together. We can’t wait to introduce this story to the audience.
More details about PILL
PILL was produced by RSVP Movies of Ronnie Screwvala and directed by Raj Kumar Gupta. Pavan Malhotra, an actor, also plays a significant role in the film. The show will be premiering on July 12 exclusively on JioCinema Premium where one can witness the honest battle against the dark and corrupt world of pharmaceutical industry as depicted in PILL.
