Director Siddharth Kumar Tewary says, “Escaype Live is set in the landscape of contemporary India”!

#DisneyHotstar’s latest thriller, Escaype Live, has been winning hearts for holding a mirror to India’s social media craze. Bringing alive on screen a community of content creators who are diverse yet similar in their greed to win the race of fame was a challenge for creator and director #SiddharthKumarTewary. Set in the landscape of contemporary India, the series explores the different journeys of six regular Indians as they struggle to win fame and fortune on a social media app called #EscaypeLive. Sharing the challenges faced while creating the characters, Siddharth Kumar Tewary stressed the importance of the characters reflecting India’s unique demography and content creator community.

He said, “We went through so many apps on social media, created IDs to meet them, talk to them, conduct research to understand their world, their constant efforts and the magnifying effect social media has on them. These are real people dreaming big from remote areas of our country and social media provides them with the much needed platform and an equal opportunity”

He further added, “We have Dance Rani hailing from a remote village in Jaisalmer, aspiring to become a star one day, Meena kumari from Banaras, who is a trans woman seeking liberation and acceptance, along with someone like Aamcha Spider who wants to get out of his poverty stricken life and achieve big in Mumbai and several others. All my characters are based on real people facing real challenges while also aspiring to make a better future.”

Escaype Live is a fictional story penned by Jaya Mishra and Siddharth Kumar Tewary that has been produced under the director’s One Life Studios. It features nine episodes that heavily emphasise the human tendency to be competitive. The show has a spectacular cast consisting of Siddharth, Jaaved Jaaferi, Shweta Tripathi Sharma, Swastika Mukherjee, Plabita Borthakur, Waluscha D’Souza, Ritvik Sahore, Sumedh Mudgalkar, Geetika Vidya Ohlyan, Jagjeet Sandhu, Rohit Chandel and child actor Aadyaa Sharma.

Tune into Disney+ Hotstar to watch who finally walks away with the prize money in Hotstar Specials thriller, Escaype Live.