Vishal Bhardwaj On Spies, Secrets & Working With Tabu In Netflix Thriller ‘Khufiya’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: One of India’s most acclaimed directors and producers, Vishal Bhardwaj is making his Netflix debut with spy thriller Khufiya, starring Tabu, Ali Fazal and Wamiqa Gabbi.
Set to stream worldwide from October 5, the film is based on the novel ‘Escape To Nowhere’, written by Amar Bhushan, the former chief of counter espionage at India’s foreign intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).
Tabu plays Krishna Mehra, a RAW operative grappling with her dual identity as a spy and a lover when assigned to investigate a colleague who appears to have leaked information that led to the death of her girlfriend in Bangladesh.
Fazal plays the colleague, an agent with complex motives for his disloyalty, while Gabbi plays his wife, an unwitting accomplice who is placed under close surveillance by RAW operatives in Delhi.
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