Kareena Kapoor Khan To Make Her OTT Debut With Film Based On A Japanese Novel

Kareena Kapoor Khan will soon be making her OTT debut with a suspense-thriller film. The actor, along with Jaideep Ahlawat and Vijay Verma is set to be part of an upcoming film based on a Japanese novel titled The Devotion of Suspect X, which is written by Keigo Higashino. This Hindi adaptation will have a direct digital release.

For a long time, there has been buzz about Khan's possible debut on OTT. The film will be directed by Sujoy Ghosh, best known for helming thrillers like Kahaani and Badla. The official title of the project has not been revealed, as of yet.

The project is being produced by Jay Shewakramani and Akshai Puri along with Sujoy Ghosh and Thomas Kim. Vijay Verma shared a 25 seconds video that announces the project. It opens with a member of the production team placing a flower vase and then frames of the crew going through the script together. Then enters Khan and she is seen saying, "Are we doing the reading? What is going on?" The video proceeds to show Ahlawat and Verma prepping for the shoot alongside Ghosh.

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Verma shared the video with the caption, "Off we are to another with Netflix! Excited to collaborate with these stalwarts. Trust me when I say, it keeps getting better."

As mentioned in the announcement, the film is based on Keigo Higashino's The Devotion of Suspect X, which was published in 2005. It is the third novel in Higashino's Detective Galileo series. He won numerous awards including the 134th Naoki Prize for the book.

The book is about a character named Yasuko Hanaoka, who is a divorced single mother. She thinks that she has escaped the abusive relationship with her ex-husband Togashi until he returns one day seeking money from her. He threatens her and the daughter but as things escalate, he winds up dead at her apartment.

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Talking with Hindustan Times, Khan spoke about her debut on OTT, saying , "The film is a screen adaptation of a work which was a global bestseller. It has so many aspects to it...murder, mystery, thrill and much more, which put in the hands of our inimitable director Ghosh is something I am eager to start work on."

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