Vir Das teams up with Nikkhil Advani for Hasmukh
Sameer Nair-headed Applause Entertainment the content studio from the Aditya Birla Group is backing the project.
Vir and Advani will be writing and creating an original show read a statement to IANS.
"This is going to be insane!!! So excited! Gentlemen let s murder this " Vir tweeted.
Praising Nair he wrote: "It takes a killer sense of humour to greenlight this madness."
Apart from this show Vir has been signed on by ABC for a new hour-long weekly dramedy FBI series "Whiskey Cavalier" produced by Warner Bros. Netflix has also ordered two additional live stand-up comedy specials from Vir the first comedian out of India to have a Netflix original special.
The Das special "Abroad Understanding" made its debut on the streaming platform in April 2017 and tackled nationalism globalism good food and bad politics in two crosscut performances in New York and New Delhi.
According to deadline.com the first of the two newly ordered specials will be shot in San Francisco at the Regency Ballroom on July 14.
--IANS sug/rb/vm
