Overview
- The series, which premieres Friday, April 17 on Prime Video worldwide, unveiled a new clip where Vijay Varma’s Brij Bhatti walks out of Ranveer Allahbadia’s podcast.
- Varma plays a middle-class cotton trader in 1960s Mumbai who reshapes matka, a numbers-based betting game linked to daily figures, to make rules that he argues are fair to players and operators.
- Nagraj Manjule directs the eight-episode drama from a concept by Ashish Aryan with writing by Manjule and Abhay Koranne, and he says the story avoids good-versus-evil binaries.
- Creators reject biopic claims, though reporting notes Brij Bhatti’s arc resembles Ratan Khatri, a famed figure credited with early matka innovations.
- Varma frames the role as a pivot after years of typecasting, recalling long idle spells post-Cannes and a career turn with Gully Boy that opened steadier, bigger parts.