In their endeavour to reach out to a global audience, aha Studio and Applause Entertainment, a venture of the Aditya Birla Group; announced a partnership to produce four premium bi-lingual pan-Indian series, which will be released in Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil in 2023.

Their first offering is an adaptation of the book ‘Half Lion’ based on the life of Shri PV Narsimha Rao, former Prime Minister of India.

The announcement was made in Mumbai earlier today by Allu Aravind- Promoter aha and Managing Director Geetha Arts and Sameer Nair- CEO Applause Entertainment.

The biographical drama is based on the book of the same name written by Vinay Sitapati, PTI reported from Mumbai.

Jha, known to helm acclaimed sociopolitical films like ‘Gangaajal’, ‘Apaharan’ and ‘Rajneeti’, said hardly a small percentage of today’s generation knows about Rao, the “man who changed India”.

Producer Allu Aravind, Promoter, aha and Managing Director Geetha Arts, said the team is excited to bring the story of Rao to the screen.

“All the economic reforms we enjoy today were started by him in 1991. What all happened during those days, we are going to bring out those stories with the series,” Aravind said.

Sameer Nair  CEO, of Applause Entertainment, said the collaboration builds on their vision of creating “content without borders, and beyond languages, enabling us to tell more clutter-breaking stories” in future.

The cast of the show is yet to be announced.