[05/17/19 - 02:09 AM] Video: Netflix Launches the Trailer for Its Latest Drama Series, "Leila" Based on author Prayaag Akbar's award-winning book of the same name, the series premieres Friday, June 14.
[via press release from Netflix]
Netflix launches the trailer for its latest drama series, Leila
Starring Huma Qureshi and Siddharth in lead roles, Leila is set to premiere on Netflix on 14 June
Mumbai, India - May 17, 2019: Earlier today, Netflix Inc, the world's leading internet entertainment service, released the trailer of its upcoming drama series. Based on author Prayaag Akbar's award-winning book of the same name, Leila stars, in pivotal roles, actors Huma Qureshi, Siddharth, Rahul Khanna, Seema Biswas, Akash Khurana, Sanjay Suri, Arif Zakaria, amongst others, and is helmed by Creative Executive Producer, Deepa Mehta. The series has been directed by Deepa Mehta, Shanker Raman, and Pawan Kumar and is based on the book (also called Leila) by Akbar.
India's first dystopian story, Leila is set in an imagined world, Aryavarta in which there is great suffering, extreme and totalitarian rules of engagement and fictional extremes constructed around an obsession with purity, communal and divisive societal dramas and grit.
Leila is the story of a mothers' imperishable maternal love for her daughter set in the political and emotional dystopia of Aryavarta.
The series is set to release on the service worldwide across 190 countries on 14 June, 2019
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