The Family Man (Season 1) Web Series Details:
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Genre | Action, Thriller, Spy, Comedy, Drama |
| Season | 1 |
| Episodes | 10 |
| Release date | 20 September 2019 |
| Running time | 38-53 minutes |
| Age rating | 18+ |
| Starring | Manoj Bajpayee Sharib Hashmi Priyamani Ashlesha Thakur Vedant Sinha Neeraj Madhav Shahab Ali Sunny Hinduja Shreya Dhanwanthary |
| Created by | Krishna D.K. Raj Nidimoru |
| Directed by | Krishna D.K. Raj Nidimoru |
| Written by | Krishna D.K. Raj Nidimoru Suman Kumar Sumit Arora |
| Produced by | Krishna D.K. Raj Nidimoru |
| Cinematography by | Nigam Bomzan Azim Moollan |
| Edited by | Sumeet Kotian |
| Music by | Ketan Sodha Divya Limbasia |
| Casting by | Mukesh Chhabra |
| Production Company | D2R Films |
| Distributor | Amazon Prime Video |
The Family Man (Season 1) Web Series Cast & Character:
- Manoj Bajpayee as Srikant Tiwari (Sri): Senior Agent and Analyst in T.A.S.C, Suchitra’s husband; Dhriti and Atharv’s father.
- Sharib Hashmi as Jayavant Kashinath Talpade (JK)
- Priyamani as Suchitra Tiwari (Suchi): Srikant’s wife; Dhriti and Atharv’s mother.
- Ashlesha Thakur as Dhriti Tiwari, Srikant’s daughter
- Vedant Sinha as Atharv Tiwari, Srikant’s son
- Neeraj Madhav as Moosa Rahman a.k.a. Al Qatil
- Shahab Ali as Sajid Ghani
- Sunny Hinduja as Milind Hinduja
- Shreya Dhanwanthary as Zoya
- Aritro Rudraneil Banerjee as Punit Banerjee
- Pawan Chopra as Sharma
- Dalip Tahil as Kulkarni
- Darshan Kumar as Major Sameer
- Vijay Vikram Singh as Ajit
- Debasish Mondal as Jayesh
- Gul Panag as Saloni Bhatt, Srikant’s Commanding Officer
- Sundeep Kishan as Major Vikram Vaid
- Sharad Kelkar as Arvind
- Krishna D. K. as Nikhil
- Arpit Singh as Hussain
- Abrar Qazi as Kareem Bhat
- Mir Sarwar as Faizan
- Kachoo Ahmad Khan as Altaf
- Srikrishna Dayal as Subbu
- Vijay Vikram Singh as Ajit
Storyline:
The Family Man follows the story of Srikant Tiwari, who works as a senior officer in the Threat Analysis and Surveillance Cell (TASC), along with his best friend and colleague JK Talpade, which is a part of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India. He is a married man with two kids. The first season follows an investigation of a potential terrorist attack, while simultaneously following his slightly unsettled family life. Srikant and JK, along with their subordinates Zoya, Milind and Jayesh, and Force One officer Imran Pasha work on stopping Mission Zulfiqar from succeeding. The show is inspired by real life newspaper articles.
About The Family Man (Season 1) Web Series:
The Family Man is a Hindi spy thriller web series created by Raj & DK for the streaming service Amazon Prime Video and features Manoj Bajpayee as Srikant Tiwari, a middle-class man secretly working as an intelligence officer for the Threat Analysis and Surveillance Cell (TASC), a fictitious branch of the National Investigation Agency. It also stars Priyamani, Sharad Kelkar, Neeraj Madhav, Sharib Hashmi, Dalip Tahil, Sunny Hinduja, and Shreya Dhanwanthary.
The series is produced and directed by Raj & D.K, who also co-wrote the story and screenplay with Suman Kumar, with dialogue penned by Sumit Arora and Kumar.
In November 2017, filmmakers Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. planned to direct a web series, with Akshaye Khanna being hired as the lead role. It was touted to be a socio-political thriller, with Khanna initially agreeing to the series after accepting the script finalized by Raj Nidimoru, but due to budget constraints in which Khanna charged a huge amount for the series, the makers replaced him with Manoj Bajpayee as the lead character in December 2017.
The Family Man marked the digital debut of Manoj Bajpayee.
Filming for Season 1, took place on 13 June 2018, within the start of the announcement. Most of the portions were filmed across Mumbai, with some sequences were filmed at Ladakh, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, and Kerala.
In August 2018, Raj and Krishna stated in an interview, that a huge chunk is built in Kashmir, for which they interacted with the people in localities, exploring the livelihood of the people and their perspectives of their world they live in. The Kashmir sequences were shot first, in early 2018.
A scene featuring at the Ballad Estate (in the district of South Mumbai), was shot in a single take, with a span of 7–11 minutes. Raj and DK stated that the camera is inside the car for half the action sequence. In order to resemble the sets of Balochistan, as the team was denied permission to shoot in the country, a huge set was built in Ladakh to resemble Balochistan. Another sequence was shot in a live hospital located in Mumbai which spanned around 13 minutes.
In an interview with Film Companion, the makers stated “The location was expensive and we got it only for 2 nights. We had to come up with the entire sequence and rehearse and stage everything on the first night and the next night we had to light everything and shoot. I am really proud of the team because you don’t really pull off stuff like this in one day.” The shooting was completed in May 2019.
The Family Man: Season 1 was showcased at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour held in Los Angeles in February 2019. On 15 July 2019, Amazon Prime Video announced five new series in production, where the first poster was released on the occasion of Prime Day celebrations. The series consisting of 10 episodes was announced for a release in September. The photo shoot of the teaser poster was shot using the One Plus mobile camera, which was released on 30 August 2019, along with the teaser. The official trailer was unveiled on 2 September 2019.
Amazon Prime Video released the series in English, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu languages on 19 September 2019, ahead of the initially scheduled release of 20 September, in more than 200 countries. The series became the most-watched Indian web show on Amazon Prime Video.
