Matka King, a crime thriller announced by Prime Video today about which they have just started filming is one of the projects Siddharth Roy Kapur and Nagraj Manjule who are multiple National Award winners paired with Gargi Kulkarni, Ashish Aryan, and Ashwini Sidwani from Roy Kapur Films banner. Abhay Koranne and Nagraj Manjule are some of the writers that did work on this television series where it is produced under the direction of Nagraj Manjule. The premiere will be available in over 240 countries and territories for Amazon Prime subscribers upon its release.
Headlined by Vijay Varma, Matka King is a story set in Bombay of 1960s with a cotton merchant looking for his way to legitimacy and respect creating a new gambling game called ‘Matka’. This game takes the city by storm thereby democratizing what was previously an enclave of rich people.
This series also boasts impressive supporting cast comprising Kritika Kamra, Sai Tamhankar, Gulshan Grover, Siddharth Jadhav among others.
In march this year, Matka King was announced for those who don’t know. In an announcement post about it earlier this year said that “an enterprising cotton trader in Mumbai starts a new gambling game called Matka, taking the city by storm and democratizing a terrain previously reserved for the rich and elite.”