Amazon Prime Video is upping their game and making sure that the Indian subscribers get a great lineup of projects in 2022. The team revealed their 2022 release slate with 40 original and returning titles all set to premiere on their streaming platform. From Mirzapur 3 to Modern Love Mumbai and Chennai chapters, the list looks quite promising.
The titles were announced at an event organized by Amazon Prime Video are in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu languages. Most of the upcoming concent will also feature new talent, both in front of and behind the camera. The streamer is also licensing deals with leading production houses including Ajay Devgn FFilms, Dharma Productions, Excel Entertainment and Yash Raj Films in the next 24 months.
The above mentioned event was hosted by Karan Johar, Abhishek Bachchan and Sumukhi Suresh. Along with the casts of the projects lineup, the event wals also attended by Jennifer Salke (head of Amazon Studios), Kelly Day (VP of international, Amazon Prime Video), James Farrell (head of local originals, Amazon Studios), Gaurav Gandhi (country head, Amazon Prime Video India), Aparna Purohit (head, India originals) and Sushant Sreeram (director India SVOD.)
Gandhi stated: “In the last five years, we have built a strong slate of locally-produced content across languages, super-serving the diverse entertainment needs of Indian customers. With increased access and distribution, we have helped these great stories travel far and wide in India, and around the world. We have played a key role in helping expand the linguistic palette of Indian customers, thereby, increasing the audience base for creators and talent.”
Let’s take a look at all the titles we‘ll get to see
Scripted Original Series
Adhura (Hindi)
Directors: Gauravv Chawla and Ananya Banerjee
Cast: Ishwak Singh, Rasika Dugal
Bambai Meri Jaan (Hindi)
Director: Shujaat Saudagar
Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Kritika Kamra, Avinash Tiwary, Amyra Dastur
Call Me Bae (Hindi)
Crash Course (Hindi)
Director: Vijay Maurya
Cast: Annu Kapoor, Bhanu Uday, Udit Arora, Pranay Pachauri, Siddharth Kak, Chirag Vohra, Gaurav Sharma, Bidita Bag
Dahaad (Hindi)
Directors: Reema Kagti and Ruchika Oberoi
Cast: Sonakshi Sinha, Vijay Verma, Gulshan Devaiah, Sohum Shah
Dhootha (Telugu)
Director: Vikram K Kumar
Cast: Naga Chaitanya, Parvathy Thiruvothu, Priya Bhavani Shankar, Prachi Desai, Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam
Farzi (Hindi)
Directors: Raj & DK
Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Vijay Sethupathi, Raashi Khanna, Kay Kay Menon, Regina Cassandra, Zakir Hussain, Bhuvan Arora, Amol Palekar, Kubbra Sait
Gulkanda Tales (Hindi)
Director: Rahi Anil Barve
Cast: Kunal Khemu, Pankaj Tripathi, Patralekha
Happy Family Conditions Apply (Hindi)
Directors: Aatish Kapadia, Jamnadas Majethia (JD)
Cast: Raj Babbar, Ratna Pathak Shah, Atul Kulkarni, Ayesha Jhulka
Hush Hush (Hindi)
Directors: Tanuja Chandra, Ashish Pandey, Kopal Naithani
Cast: Juhi Chawla, Ayesha Jhulka, Soha Ali Khan, Karishma Tanna, Shahana Goswami, Kritika Kamra
Indian Police Force (Hindi)
Directors: Rohit Shetty and Sushwanth Prakash
Cast: Sidharth Malhotra, Shilpa Shetty, Vivek Oberoi, Isha Talwar
Jee Karda (Hindi)
Director: Arunima Sharma
Cast: Tamannaah, Suhail Nayyar, Aashim Gulati, Anya Singh, Hussain Dalal, Samvedna Suwalka, Sayan Banerjee
Jubilee (Hindi)
Director: Vikramaditya Motwane
Cast: Prosenjit Chatterjee, Aditi Rao Hyadri, Aparshakti Khurana, Wamiqa Gabi
Modern Love Chennai (Tamil)
Directors: Bharathi Raja, Balaji Sakthivel, Raju Murugan, Krishnakumar Ramakumar, Akshay Sundher
Cast: Kishore, Ramya Nambeesan, Ashok Selvan, Ritu Varma, Vijayalakshmi, TJ Banu, Gouri Reddy, Samyuktha Vishwanathan, Vasudevan Murali, Chu Khoy Sheng, Sanjula S
Modern Love Hyderabad
Directors: Nagesh Kukunoor, Venkatesh Maha, Uday Gurrala, Devika Bahudanam
Cast: Aadhi Pinisetty, Nithya Menen, Ritu Varma, Suhasini Maniratnam, Revathy, Naresh, Malavika Nair, Abijeet Duddala, Naresh Agastya, Komalee Prasad, Ulka Gupta
Modern Love Mumbai (Hindi)
Directors: Shonali Bose, Hansal Mehta, Vishal Bhardwaj, Alankrita Shrivastava, Dhruv Sehgal, Nupur Asthana
Cast: Fatima Sana Shaikh, Tanuja, Pratik Gandhi, Ranveer Brar, Naseeruddin Shah, Meiyang Chang, Yeo Yann Yann, Ritvik Bhowmik, Masaba Gupta, Sarika, Danesh Rizvi, Ahsaas Channa, Arshad Warsi, Chitrangda Singh
P.I. Meena (Hindi)
Director: Debaloy Bhattacharya
Cast: Tanya Maniktala, Jisshu Sengupta, Vinay Pathak, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Samir Soni
Shehar – Lakhot (Hindi)
Director: Navdeep Singh
Cast: Priyanshu Painyuli, Shruthy Menon, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Kubbra Sait, Manu Rishi Chadha and Kashyap Sanghari
Suzhal – The Vortex (Tamil)
Directors: Bramma, Anucharan. M
Cast: Aishwarya Rajesh, Kathir, R. Parthiban, Sriya Reddy
Sweet Kaaram Coffee (Tamil)
Directors: Bejoy Nambiar, Krishna Marimuthu, Swathi Raghuraaman
Cast: Lakshmi, Madhoo, Santhy Balachandran
The Village (Tamil)
Director: Milind Rau
Cast: Arya, Divya Pillai, Aazhiya, Aadukalam Naren, Thalaivasal Vijay, Muthukumar, Kalai Raani, George M, John Kokken, Arjun Chidambaram, Pooja, Jayaprakash, P.N. Sunny
Vadhandhi: The Fable of Velonie (Tamil)
Director: Andrew Louis
Cast: S.J. Suryah, Laila, M. Nasser, Sanjana
Unscripted Original Series
This is AP Dhillon
India Love Project (Hindi)
Cinema… Marte Dum Tak (Hindi)
Cast: J Neelam, Kishan Shah, Dilip Gulati, Vinod Talwar
Dancing on The Grave (Hindi)
Director: Patrick Graham
Returning Series
Breathe: Into The Shadows (Hindi)
Director: Mayank Sharma
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Amit Sadh, Nithya Menen, Naveen Kasturia, Saiyami Kher
Comicstaan (Hindi)
Director: Angshuman Ghosh
Cast: Sumukhi Suresh, Kenny Sebastian, Zakir Khan, Neeti Palta, Abish Matthew & Kusha Kapila
Four More Shots Please! (Hindi)
Director: Joyeeta Patpatia
Cast: Sayani Gupta, Bani J, Kirti Kulhari, Maanvi Gagroo, Prateik Babbar, Jim Sarbh, Rajeev Siddhartha, Lisa Ray, Simone Singh, Rohan Mehra, Shilpa Shukla and Sushant Singh
Made in Heaven (Hindi)
Directors: Zoya Akhtar, Nitya Mehra, Alankrita Shrivastava, Neeraj Ghaywan
Cast: Arjun Mathur, Sobhita Dhulipala, Jim Sarbh, Shashank Arora, Kalki Koechlin, Shivani Raghuvanshi
Mirzapur (Hindi)
Directors: Gurmmeet Singh and Anand Iyer
Cast: Pankaj Tripathi, Ali Fazal, Shweta Tripathi Sharma, Rasika Dugal, Vijay Verma, Harshita Gaur, Anjum Sharma, Priyanshu Painyuli, Sheeba Chadha, Rajesh Tailang
Mumbai Diaries (Hindi)
Director: Nikkhil Advani
Cast: Konkana Sen Sharma, Mohit Raina, Natasha Bhardwaj, Satyajit Dubey, Mrunmayee Deshpande and Prakash Belawadi
Paatal Lok (Hindi)
The Family Man (Hindi)
Panchayat (Hindi)
Director: Deepak Kumar Mishra
Cast: Jitendra Kumar, Raghubir Yadav, Neena Gupta, Chandan Roy, Faisal Malik and Sanvikaa
Amazon Original Movies
Ammu (Telugu)
Director: Charukesh Sekar
Cast: Aishwarya Lekshmi, Naveen Chandra, Bobby Simha
Aye Watan…Mere Watan (Hindi)
Director: Kannan Iyer
Maja Maa (Hindi)
Director: Anand Tiwari
Cast: Madhuri Dixit Nene, Gajraj Rao, Ritwik Bhowmik, Barkha Singh, Srishti Shrivastava, Sheeba Chaddha, Rajit Kapur and Simone Singh
Special Collaboration
Tiku Weds Sheru (Hindi)
Director: Sai Kabir
Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Avneet Kaur
Co-Productions
Neeyat (Hindi)
Director: Anu Menon
Cast: Vidya Balan, Ram Kapoor, Rahul Bose, Mita Vasishth, Neeraj Kabi, Shahana Goswami, Amrita Puri, Dipannita Sharma, Shashank Arora, Prajakta Koli, Danish Razvi
Ram Setu (Hindi)
Director: Abhishek Sharma
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Jacqueline Fernandes, Nushrratt Bharuccha, Satyadev Kancharana
Licensing Associations
Ajay Devgn FFilms
Upcoming films include Runway 34, Thank God, Drishyam 2 and Bhola.
Upcoming films include Jug Jug Jeeyo, Govinda Naam Mera and Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani.
Excel Entertainment
Upcoming films include Phone Bhoot, Yudra, Fukrey 3, Jee Le Zara and Kho Gaye Hain Hum Kahan.
Yash Raj Films
Upcoming films include Jayeshbhai Jordaar, Prithviraj, Shamshera, Tiger 3 and Pathan.
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