| Scoop | |
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| Genre | Crime Drama |
| Created by | Hansal Mehta Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul |
| Based on | Behind Bars in Byculla: My Days in Prison by Jigna Vora |
| Written by | Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul Mirat Trivedi Dialogues: Karan Vyas |
| Screenplay by | Anu Singh Choudhary |
| Directed by | Hansal Mehta |
| Starring |
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| Music by | Achint Thakkar |
| Composer | Achint Thakkar |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Sarita Patil Dikssha Jyote Routray |
| Cinematography | Pratham Mehta |
| Editor | Amitesh Mukherjee |
| Running time | 52–71 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Netflix |
| Release | 2 June 2023 |
Scoop[1] is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language crime drama streaming television series created and directed by Hansal Mehta and Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul for Netflix. It stars Karishma Tanna, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub and Harman Baweja in lead roles, along with Prosenjit Chatterjee, Tannishtha Chatterjee and Deven Bhojani in supporting roles.[2] The series is produced by Sarita Patil and Dikssha Jyote Routray under the banner Matchbox Shots.[3] The series was released on Netflix on 2 June 2023.[4]
The series is based on Jigna Vora's biographical memoir Behind Bars in Byculla: My Days in Prison. It follows the real-life story of Jigna Vora who was accused of the murder of mid-day reporter Jyotirmoy Dey in June 2011.
Premise[edit]
Jagruti Pathak, a prominent crime reporter, is the principal suspect in the terrible slaying of another journalist. She has to defend her innocence as she becomes the focus of attention because everyone thinks she used her contacts in the underworld to kill her competitor.
Cast[edit]
- Karishma Tanna as Jagruti Pathak, Senior crime reporter and Deputy Bureau Chief of Eastern Age (based on Jigna Vora)
- Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub as Imran Siddiqui, Editor-in-Chief of Eastern Age (based on Hussain Zaidi)
- Prosenjit Chatterjee as Jaideb Sen, Head Of Investigations at News Day (based on Jyotirmoy Dey)
- Harman Baweja as JCP Harshavardhan Shroff (based on Himanshu Roy)
- Tannishtha Chatterjee as Leena Pradhan, Editor-in-chief of Citi Mirror
- Inayat Sood as Deepa Chandra
- Deven Bhojani as Mama, Jagruti's maternal uncle
- Shikha Talsania as Vidya Chaudhary Bisht alias 'Sadhvi Maa'
- Tanmay Dhanania as Pushkar Mohan
- Sanat Vyas as Jagruti's maternal grandfather
- Ira Dubey as Anita Mohan
- Ishitta Arun as Nelly Siddiqui
- Amar Upadhyay as Sumeet
- Ayaz Khan as Brij
- Pubali Sanyal as Shoma Sen, Jaideb Sen's wife
- Pankaj Vishnu
- Ravish Desai as Advocate Bhavesh Desai, Jagruti Pathak's defending lawyer
- Ninad Kamat as Jagmohan Guha
- Aseem Hattangadi as Sandeep Narvekar
- Manasi Rachh as Neha Gupta, Newsreader at India Now Channel
- Danish Sait as Sushant, Newsreader at AB TV Channel
- Pratik Gandhi as Man on Road (Special Appearance)
- Shreya Gupto as Rupali
- Mehul Kajaria as Darshan, Jagruti's ex-husband
- Malhar Thakar as Ajitesh Bhatt, Jagruti's boyfriend
- Tejaswini Kolhapure as Chhaya Gada alias 'Rambha Maa'
- Swaroopa Ghosh as Ushadevi
- Darshan Dave as ATS Chief Ramesh Malik
- Chirag Vohra as ACP Mahanande
- Alekh Sangal
- Jaimini Pathak as Advocate Chintan Vashisht, senior defence lawyer
- Atul Kale as Dalvi Ji, Senior reporter
