Sujoy Ghosh to make his digital directorial DEBUT

Initially planned to be a film, the show will now be an eight part mini-series.

Published: Tuesday,Sep 19, 2017 10:24 AM GMT-06:00

Kunal Nirmal Kothari

The Kahaani and Kahaani 2 director, Sujoy Ghosh was all set to make a film on the Japanese novel, The Devotion of Suspect X.

However, the film never took off. Now, the director has decided to make an eight part mini-series on the book and Amazon has infact bought the rights of the book by Keigo Hagashino.

This will be Sujoy's debut on the digital medium as well.

Initially, Saif Ali Khan was finalized to play the lead role in the film but with the actor busy in the Netflix show, Sacred Games, Sujoy is on the search for his new leading man and the female lead too.