Cinematographer Avinash Arun who recently made his spectacular Hindi directorial debut with Anushka Sharma's Paatal Lok seems in the awe OTT world. We heard the filmmaker who is still riding high on the success of the political thriller that became an overnight phenomenon and brought Jaideep Ahlawat in the much-deserving limelight, is doing one more web show for Amazon Prime Video.
Peepingmoon.com sources have exclusively learned that Avinash is next directing a light-hearted series, tentatively titled as Crash Course for the International streaming giant. The show is said to be revolving around students who come to study IIT in Rajasthan's Kota, known as India's major coaching hub where students come from all over the country to prepare for various entrance examinations. The series is believed to be along the lines of TVF's Kota Factory and will highlight the problems IIT-JEE aspirants face in their day-to-day lives.
Avinash has almost completed the script and is currently finalizing the cast with Mukesh Chhabra who's believed to be auditioning for the youth-based show online. Amazon Prime apparently greenlighted the show earlier this year. It was scheduled to go on floors this month but has now been postponed until the situation gets back to normal. Manish Hariprasad who has been associate producer on films like Chennai Express, No One Killed Jessica, Kai Po Che, and 7 Khoon Maaf is producing this show.
Having worked on movies like Drishyam, Masaan and Hichki as a cinematographer, Crash Course will be Avinash's third project as a director. He made his directorial debut in 2014 with National Award-winning Marathi film Killa and followed it up this year with Amazon Prime Video's Paatal Lok that he co-directed with Pari fame Prosit Roy. While Killa revolved around an 11-year-old seventh-grade boy struggling to cope with the death of his father, Paatal Lok was a raw political story of a down and out police inspector who stumbles upon a once in a lifetime opportunity to solve an important case that's under constant media scrutiny.
