It was with much fanfare that Applause Entertainment, the digital content arm of the Aditya Birla Group, helmed by Sameer Nair, had announced last April that it was in the process of adapting the critically and commercially acclaimed crime thriller, Luther, for Indian viewers. It’s now exactly a year to that announcement, and there seems to be no headway in the production of the series yet.
Likewise with the Israeli espionage thriller, Fauda. It is six months now that Applause announced that it is remaking the hit Israeli thriller for Indian audiences. But again, there’s no further news on that front too.
Luther is a hit crime and psychological thriller that airs on BBC One. It stars Idris Elba as troubled London police detective John Luther, who grapples his own inner demons as he gets into the minds of the most dangerous and cunning criminals to solve complex murder mysteries. Ruth Wilson plays a brilliant psychopath Alice Morgan, who becomes an unlikely accomplice to Luther. The five-season series is written and created by Neil Cross. Elba has won multiple awards, including a Golden Globe, for his outing as Luther.
Fauda is an Israeli espionage thriller that depicts conflict between the Israeli defence forces and Palestinian terrorists. The Indian version will most likely adapt the narrative as an Indian-spies-vs-Pakistan-terrorists account.
As of now, though, we have no information whatsoever, on the cast and crew of either of the above two adaptations, nor of the OTT platforms where they will stream.
Meanwhile, Season 3 of the Israeli Fauda premieres on Netflix on 16th April.