Siddharth Roy Kapur and Nagraj Manjule Team for Illegal Betting Series ‘Matka King’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Prolific Indian producer Siddharth Roy Kapur’s Roy Kapur Films is teaming with acclaimed filmmaker Nagraj Manjule for a series set in the world of illegal betting. Provisionally titled “Matka King” and spanning a timeframe from the 1960s through the 1990s, the series is inspired by the life of Ratan Khatri, who went to Mumbai as a refugee and changed the fortunes of the have-nots around him by transforming the local gambling game of matka into a national syndicate worth billions of rupees. The appeal of matka cut across economic divides, where punters could bet as little as one rupee in… Read Full Article