When Kishore Kumar's biopic gave a new kahani to Soumik Sen

Updated On: 07 April, 2023 07:45 AM IST | Mumbai | Hiren Kotwani

Jubilee co-creator reveals how scripting of Kishore Kumar biopic led him to explore ’50s film industry that forms the series` crux

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Their love for cinema has seen many filmmakers tell stories set in the Indian film industry. Vikramaditya Motwane and co-creator Soumik Sen take a stab at it with Jubilee, Amazon Prime Video’s marquee series that stars Prosenjit Chatterjee, Aditi Rao Hydari, Aparshakti Khurana and Wamiqa Gabbi. Sen surprises us when he says that the period drama has its roots in the Kishore Kumar biopic that he was scripting for Anurag Basu, and was to star Ranbir Kapoor. “While working on the Kishore Kumar biopic, my research extended to RD Burman, the music of those times and the era before that. In the process, I went through old magazines that gave insight into the functioning of the film industry,” recounts Sen.

A still from the series