New Delhi: Jehanabad-of Love & War gets a release date on the Sonyliv OTT platform. Sudhir Mishra’s new web series is going to be a political thriller. The makers revealed the trailer of Jehanabad-of Love and War on Monday.
The trailer has set a serious tone for the upcoming series. Jehanabad-of love and war will start streaming on SonyLiv from 3rd February.
Plot
Set in Jehanabad, a small municipality in Bihar, the show explores the consequential issues erupting from a long history of Naxalism and Caste inequalities. The main story revolves around the love story of a progressive professor and his student. Their dreams of marrying each other are caught in the whirlwind of conflict between Naxalites and police forces. The show goes deep into the issue of torturous caste discrimination and the reactionaries planning a jailbreak for their leader.
Side by side, we see a greedy MLA trying to clock Dalit voters at whatever cost.
Based on True Incident
The Web series is based on the infamous Jehanabad Jailbreak in 2005 where as many as 372 inmates fled from the prison in a well-planned attempt.
Cast
Ritwik Bhowik will be playing a college professor while Harshita Gaur plays his lovestruck student.
Parambrata Chattopadhyay will be seen in the role of the Naxalite chief, whose reactionary forces are conspiring a jailbreak for him.
Besides these, Satyadeep Mishra, Suneel Sinha, Rajesh Jais, Rajat Kapoor, and Sonal Jha will also be seen in the series.
The seat-gripping show is created, written, and directed by Rajiv Barnwal. According to showrunner Sudhir Mishra, The show will combine all shades of romance, betrayal, crime, thrill, and suspense.
He also commented on the exemplary performance of the lead cast members and said it the promising story aided by a fitting cast will make Jehanabad-of Love and War a riveting watch.
