Vijay Varma wraps up the shoot for 'Matka King'

Mumbai, April 24 (IANS) After "Mirzapur", "Dahaad", and "IC814" actor Vijay Varma is all set for another gripping web series, "Matka King".

As the team wrapped up the filming of the show, Vijay marked the occasion by sharing a picture on his Instagram stories of a custom-made matka-shaped cake, writing simply, “Matka King Wrapped!”

Directed by "Sairat" and "Fandry" maker Nagraj Manjule, "Matka King" is a tale set in the gritty world of 1960s Mumbai.

"Matka King" is expected to chronicle the journey of an enterprising cotton trader in Mumbai who starts a new gambling game called Matka, taking the city by storm and democratizing a terrain previously reserved for the rich and elite.

For those who do not know, during the initial days, Matka involved betting on cotton's opening and closing rates from the New York Cotton Exchange to the Bombay Cotton Exchange. However, in the 1960s, the system was replaced with other ways of generating random numbers, including pulling slips from a matka.

With Vijay as the lead, the web series will also feature Kritika Kamra, Sai Tamhankar, Gulshan Grover, and Siddharth Jadhav in significant roles, along with others. Written by Abhay Koranne and Nagraj Manjule, the project has been produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur and Manjule, along with Gargi Kulkarni, Ashish Aryan, and Ashwini Sidwani, under the banner of Roy Kapur Films.

It might be interesting to know that, Karuna Kumar is also working on a Tollywood project titled "Matka", which explores the gambling culture of the 1950s-1980s The Telugu drama will see Varun Tej in the lead.

Over and above this, Vijay will also star in Vibhu Puri's forthcoming directorial “Ul Jalool Ishq”. He will be seen sharing the screen with Naseeruddin Shah, Sharib Hashmi, and Fatima Sana Shaikh in his next, along with others.

--IANS

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