Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Entertainment have signed a deal with Netflix for a long-term partnership. Their first two collaborative serials would be titled Dabba Cartel and Queen Of The Hills. Dabba Cartel is a story of five housewives who run a high stakes secret cartel. Style, ambition, love, friendship and betrayal set in the backdrop of jazz rich 1960s Mumbai, Queen of the Hill chronicles the dynamic relationship between two ambitious women that will change the city forever.
Excel Entertainment will produce a variety of stories under its series banner Excel Media & Entertainment for Netflix.
Says Farhan Akhtar, “Our partnership with Netflix marks a new global chapter for Excel Entertainment after 20 eventful years in storytelling. We’re excited with the opportunity to create a variety of extraordinary stories to entertain people in India and around the world. We are thrilled to begin this next chapter with Netflix.”