Bollywood actor, Madhuri Dixit Nene is poised to make her Netflix acting debut with a yet-to-be-titled series that Karan Johar is set to producer.
The series will be a suspense family drama, written by New York-based writer-director Sri Rao. According to Variety, it will reflect on the lives lead by people in the entertainment industry.
The series is being produced by Netflix and Dharmatic Entertainment, the digital arm of Indian filmmaker, producer and television personality Karan Joha's Dharma Productions.
In September, Netflix entered into a long-term partnership with Dharmatic to create a range of new fiction and non-fiction series and films.
“I’ve been working in films for decades now and facing the camera has always been one of my greatest joys. But this is the first time I’ll be working on a series, and I’m both excited and nervous,” Dixit told the outlet.
“It will be a completely new experience, because while you have to be judicious when telling a story on film, you have the luxury of time in a series,” she concluded.
Dixit featured in some of the most influential Bollywood films of all time including 1988’s Tezaab, 1994’s Hum Aapke Hain Koun, 1997’s Dil To Pagal Hai, and 2002’s Devdas. At the peak of her fame, she married and moved to the US after which she relocated back to India in 2011.
New York based-writer director Sri Rao, whose credits include US television titles What Goes On, General Hospital: Night Shift, The Black Widow, and the Bollywood film Baar Baar Dekho, will be the show-runner.
Rao previously collaborated with Dixit on a pilot for US network ABC, inspired by her life as a Bollywood superstar-turned-soccer mom in suburban America. Although Dixit had also produced the Netflix Original film 15 August that began streaming in March, she did not star in it.
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