Actor-producer Alia Bhatt on Thursday said she decided to support the upcoming web-series Poacher as it uncovers an important true-life story that’s told with a lot of genuineness. Bhatt is an executive producer on the Prime Video series that marks director Richie Mehta’s return to streaming space with a show after the first season of critically-acclaimed Netflix show Delhi Crime.
An eight-part crime drama based on true events; Poacher uncovers the largest ivory poaching ring in Indian history. The show, starring Nimisha Sajaya, Roshan Mathew and Debyendu Bhattacharya in prominent roles, starts streaming on Prime Video from February 23.
“It really leaves an impact… Supporting a story like this, for us, as an audience is very important but I really thank Richie for putting this together… I think there is a lot of genuineness in it. There is a lot of heart in it and it comes across when you see the show,” Bhatt said at the trailer launch of the series.
Bhatt said she met the Emmy-winning filmmaker in 2020 and discussed various topics, from parenting to cinema, art and Poacher. Mehta shared two episodes of the show and she was hooked.
Mehta said the story came to him while he was working on a documentary project with Google, “India in a day” in 2015.
He had invited videos from across the country for the crowd-sourced project and one of them was about ivory raiding in Delhi and it from the WildLife Trust of India.
“It was basically officers breaking down the door and finding this ivory in a flat and I was shocked. I couldn’t believe in what I was seeing. I contacted the Wildlife Trust and asked, ‘What is this?’ They said, ‘We did the biggest ivory raid in the history of India on your shoot day’.” Mehta said he couldn’t use the …read more
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