Sunflower: ZEE5 Reveals The Star Cast Of This Upcoming Web Series Written By Vikas Bahl
ZEE5 announces a new web series, Sunflower, with an Instagram post featuring the main cast members.
ZEE5 recently announced its new Original series Sunflower, with a post on ZEE5’s Instagram handle. The series will be written by Vikas Bahl and directed by Rahul Sengupta, along with Vikas Bahl. The new series is in the making since November 2020 and we are glad for we’ll finally get to watch it on the small screens. Read on to know more about this.
In November 2020, after ZEE5 had launched its own short-video platform, HiPi, it had announced the auditions for Sunflower. ZEE5 had launched the HiPi Star Hunt, India’s first-ever digital audition. The news was that the ones with the best audition clips would get a chance to star in Jamai 2.0 season 2 or Sunflower. And recently, ZEE5 announced the series Sunflower with its main cast.
The Instagram post featured the actors Ranvir Shorey, Mukul Chaddha, Ashish Vidyarthi, Shonali Nagrani, Girish Kulkarni, and Sonal Jha. Sunflower will star Sunil Grover in the leading role. Ranvir Shorey has been well-known for his roles in films like No Smoking and Sonchiriya. He has also starred in the web-series Rangbaaz and Bombers.
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Mukul Chaddha was also recently seen in the ZEE5 web-series Bicchoo Ka Khel. Ashish Vidyarthi is also a well-known actor, known for his roles in Aligarh and Haider. From the post, we only know that Ranvir Shorey and Girish Kulkarni will be playing the roles of cops. Sunil Grover’s character in the series is not revealed yet.
The writer of the series, Vikas Bahl had been off the grid since 2018 after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct in the #MeToo movement. Following the accusations, his fellow directors, Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane, with whom he ran the production house Phantom Films, disbanded the production house. Bahl is returning to the industry with Sunflower, as a writer and a co-director.
From the Instagram post about Sunflower, we also get a hint about how it will revolve around a housing society, where chaos ensues, leading to hilarious situations. Sunflower will be soon releasing on ZEE5.
Until then, watch another dark comedy series, Black Widows on ZEE5.
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