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‘Karmma Calling’ Director Ruchi Narain On Adapting ABC’s Glossy ‘Revenge’ For Indian Streaming: “As Others Were Getting Their Hair Done, I Was Pulling Mine Out”


EXCLUSIVE: Ruchi Narain was obsessed with ABC’s early 2010s drama Revenge — so much so that she spent years trying to land the rights to remake the Mike Kelley show in India. “I was add…

EXCLUSIVE: Ruchi Narain was obsessed with ABC ‘s early 2010s drama Revenge — so much so that she spent years trying to land the rights to remake the Mike Kelley show in India. Narain, known for hit Indian films such as Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi and Netflix’s 2020 feature Guilty, had begun talking to the Star India network about securing the rights in the mid-2010s. She recognised there is “some flux going on” in India — take, for example, Disney trying merge its assets with those of streaming rival Reliance Industries — and that the OTT market is going through a “little readjustment and self correction,” but added: “It’s all really exciting because creativity is flourishing.”

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