Film producer Firoz Nadiadwala is making a web series and feature film about the life of legendary spymaster Rameshwar Nath Kao. Kao is the founder of India’s external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).
Speaking to a news agency, Nadiadwala said that they have been working on the project for five years and that they are first doing it as a web series with 20 episodes. The producer confirmed that Nana Patekar will play the starting role and that the rest of the cast and crew are being finalized. The cast will be the same for both the web series and the movie.
The film and series will be inspired by various incidents from real life. It will show the history and formation of RAW and the various missions undertaken by Mr. Kao. The team is likely to start firing starting in November this year. Earlier this year, filmmaker Karan Johar had also announced a movie based on Kao’s life, and recently producer Sunil Bohra also revealed that he is producing a web thriller series about the spymaster.
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