Bollywood A-lister Shahid Kapoor makes his streaming debut with crime thriller “Farzi” on Amazon’s Prime Video service. Through his career Kapoor has largely starred in films that…
Through his career Kapoor has largely starred in films that are both critically acclaimed and commercially successful, including “Jab We Met,” “Kaminey,” “Haider,” “Udta Punjab” and “Padmaavat,” working with the cream of India’s filmmaking talent.
The show began life as a feature film that the duo were due to make with Kapoor but the story was too large to fit within a two and a half hour time frame. In “Farzi,” Kapoor plays Sunny, a street-smart Mumbai artist who along with his best friend Firoz tries to help his grandfather’s floundering revolutionary newspaper and printing press stay afloat. When all other avenues fail, Sunny, who can make flawless copies of artworks and Firoz, who is a printing expert, decide to forge banknotes. This brings them into the ambit of cop Michael and counterfeiting mafia don Mansoor .
“Counterfeiting is a real problem that exists in the country and it’s also what we call a faceless crime – nobody thinks of it as a crime, it’s illegal of course, but nobody can really pinpoint what harm it causes, but when there are enough counterfeit notes, it can cause a lot of harm,” DK toldAmol Palekar, who plays the idealistic grandfather, was the epitome of the Indian middle class on screen in the Hindi-language cinema of the 1970s and had an enormously successful career playing everyman...
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