Bollywood / Hansal Mehta to direct web series on gangster Vikas Dubey

Bollywood Desk: In July, UP’s notorious gangster Vikas Dubey was allegedly killed in an encounter after he reportedly tried to flee when a Special Task Force (STF) convoy overturned on the outskirts of Kanpur. Before his alleged encounter, he had reportedly organized the massacre of eight policemen in Kanpur, and had been on the run since then. Now, a web series on the life of gangster Vikas Dubey is being made by filmmaker Hansal Mehta.

Producer Shailesh R Singh has reportedly obtained the rights to UP gangster Vikas Dubey’s story, and filmmaker Hansal Mehta will direct an edgy political thriller web series on the infamous gangster. While speaking to Mid-Day, Hansal Mehta, who has previously made films such as Shahid, Omerta, Aligarh, said, “It is an important story, which is a reflection of our times where politics, crime and lawmakers form a curious nexus. I see an edgy political thriller emerging from this [material].” As for the cast, he said that he has some thought on who he’d like to rope in, but he said, “let the writing happen first."

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#Shahid. #Repost @_cinexp_ • • • • • • Shahid (2012) | Hansal Mehta The story of seeking justice. In a country of a billion, like India; judiciary comes across thousands of cases ranging through various numbers of issues; millions of people knocking the door of the Indian courts, tonnes of proceedings going on everyday yet the Indian Judicial system strives at best of it's capabilities to serve justice to the nation; but such a vast code of conduct too have some flaws, due to which sometimes even the innocents lands up getting trapped into the judicial flaws. . Shahid Aazmi, a survivor of the 93 Bombay riots & a former militant mends his way to become a criminal lawyer; defending the helpless accused's of the allegations of suspicious terrorist activities. . Hansal Mehta here, attempts to presents the ground reality of the Indian judicial proceedings by a story of a normal person whose life takes a drastic turn after being affected by the judicial flaws & some other series of events. Shahid here is not potraited as a role model or a torchman of the justice but only as a normal man with an unjust past who overcomes his misfortunes through lights of the education & just helping the Indian judicial serving justice, through only doing his share; helping the people going through the similar misfortunes what he gone through once. The ugly & unfair side of the legal system towards the end really hits you hard & is just heartbreaking making us all questioning that "Is that what really one have to pay the price for seeking the truth?" . Mehta doesn't complexs the narrative through any cinematic technicalities but just captured a life account of a man keeping it's true essence which seems very raw & aunthentic where Rao has literally given a life to his character earning him a National award. . "Waqt lagta hai par ho jata hai" P.S.- glimpses of 'Beparwah' in the story #shahid #rajkumarrao #prabhleensandhu #mohammedzeeshanayyub #hansalmehta #tigmanshudhulia #anuragkashyap

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Producer Shailesh Singh is known for backing films such as Tanu Weds Manu, Shahid, Judgemental Hai Kya. While speaking to Mid-Day, he said, “I had been following the events closely and thought, why not tell this story to the entire nation and bring out the facts?"

Sharing about how it took some convincing for Vikas Dubey’s family to agree. “It's a recent event, and they are still coping with it. Many people had approached them, but we managed to convince them after much persuasion. They want his story to be depicted with authenticity,” he said.