Ronnie Screwvala Feels 'Panthers' Boasts The Right Balance Of Realism & Entertainment
Celebrated film producer Ronnie Screwvala is gearing up to produce his first web series — Panthers — a multi-season series espionage thriller.
The show will be produced by Screwvala’s RSVP production company and co-produced by Blue Monkey.
Directed and run by Rensil D’Silva, the series stays raw and rooted in the Indo-Pak spy games of the late 60s and early 70s.
The 45 minute-episode follows the exploits of RA&W heroes of the bygone era as they follow clues, nab their targets, gather information and link together the pieces of the puzzle.
A major highlight of the series is the recreation of a purported conspiracy masterminded by the ISI to hijack an Indian Airlines plane piloted by Rajiv Gandhi in the early 1970s. The incident was recently mentioned in a book by a former RAW agent, who said that RAW was able to neutralise the threat.
Ronnie Screwvala said, “Panthers is the story of India‘s burgeoning spy agency against a politically volatile setting. It is as eye-opening as it is gripping and boasts of the right balance of realism and entertainment, making it the perfect project for us at RSVP to get behind. Rensil is the right man at the helm of this one.”
