Randeep Hooda is returning to Netflix — as an undercover spy. On Tuesday, the world’s largest subscription-based video streaming service introduced CAT, a brand new revenge crime thriller collection created by Saand Ki Aankh author Balwinder Singh Janjua. Set towards the backdrop of the Punjab hinterlands, CAT follows an harmless man who’s thrown in deep right into a drug trafficking conspiracy between gang lords, cops, and political powers. CAT shall be a Hindi- and Punjabi-language authentic, Netflix instructed Gadgets 360. Janjua can be showrunner, author, director, and producer. Rupinder Chahal, Anil Rodhan, and newcomer Jimmy Singh additionally wrote. Chahal, Singh, and fellow newcomer Anutej Singh additionally directed CAT episodes.

For Janjua, CAT is a private story that he has all the time wished to depict on display, as he was a witness to the “surge of drug trafficking in the early 2000s.” Janjua added in a ready assertion: “With the pace at which our industry is releasing content, it’s very easy to be lost in the herd, but with the industry giant like Netflix backing my passion for creating a series with a subject so close to my heart, I feel truly blessed and lucky. And having the opportunity to work with an exceptional artist like Randeep Hooda is the cherry on top.”

Panchali Chakraverty can be a producer on CAT alongside Janjua. The new Indian Netflix collection is a manufacturing of Movie Tunnel Productions, in affiliation with Jelly Bean Entertainment. There isn’t any phrase on CAT’s solid members outdoors of Hooda.

Chahal, Rodhan, and Janjua beforehand labored collectively on the 2021 Punjabi-language film Puaada. Meanwhile, Hooda and Ileana D’Cruz are set as leads on the Hindi-language social comedy Tera Kya Hoga Lovely (beforehand Unfair & Lovely), directed by Janjua and produced by Sony Pictures Films India. Tera Kya Hoga Lovely is full, Netflix mentioned within the CAT announcement, although a launch date shouldn’t be recognized.

For Hooda, this shall be his first Indian Netflix authentic. In mid-2020, Hooda had a starring position on the American action-thriller Extraction reverse Chris Hemsworth. Hooda shouldn’t be concerned within the Extraction sequels because the story strikes to totally different nations.

Balwinder Singh Janjua, Randeep Hooda on the units of CAT
Photo Credit: Netflix

“Working with Netflix is always a pleasure,” Hooda mentioned. “I had a tremendous time during Extraction and the love it got me from around the world was phenomenal. CAT again has all the elements to appeal to a global audience. It has given me an opportunity to explore new facets as an actor in a simple but intriguing script. Can’t wait to see the audience reaction to the series.”

CAT is coming quickly to Netflix in India and all over the world.