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Black Warrant (TV series)
Black Warrant is 2025 Indian Hindi-language crime drama thriller streaming television series based on the 2019 non-fiction book Black Warrant: Confessions of a Tihar Jailer by Sunil Gupta and Sunetra Choudhury, about Gupta's time as a rookie jailer at Tihar Prisons. Created by Vikramaditya Motwane and Satyanshu Singh, written by Singh and Arkesh Ajay, it stars Zahan Kapoor as Gupta, alongside Rahul Bhat, Paramvir Singh Cheema, and Anurag Thakur. It’s directed by Motwane, Singh, Ajay along with Ambiecka Pandit and Rohin Raveendran Nair. The series was released on Netflix on 10 January 2025.[1][2][3] PremiseSet in the 1980s, Black Warrant is based on certain true events told from the perspective of Sunil Gupta, who was a rookie jailer at Tihar Jail.[4] Cast and charactersMain
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ProductionIn June 2020, it was announced that Motwane will be adapting the 2019 non-fiction book Black Warrant into a web series.[5] Motwane's production company Andolan Films and journalist Josy Joseph's company Confluence Media & Vipin Agnihotri Films acquired the rights for the web series.[6] ReleaseThe series began streaming on Netflix on 10 January 2025.[7] Episodes
ReceptionShubhra Gupta of The Indian Express wrote that the "series goes the full yard in attempting to unpack the intricate power structure and showcasing caste-and-religious hierarchies in rough-tough Tihar Jail".[8] Scroll.in's Nandini Ramnath considered it a "grim show" about the "brutalities of prison life".[9] Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV opined, "As a piercing look at Tihar, an absorbing story of a baptism by fire and an insightful snapshot of an era in the life of a nation, Black Warrant warrants bingeing on."[10] References
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