Zakir Khan, Amazon Prime Video Ink Multi-Present Deal

Much more Zakir Khan is coming to Prime Video. Amazon has inked a multi-show cope with the 32-year-old Indore-born comic, which incorporates the renewal of his comedy sequence Chacha Vidhayak Hain Humare for a second season, and three stand-up comedy specials: two unnamed and a 3rd known as ‘Tathastu’, which loosely interprets to “amen”. No launch dates have been set, however Chacha Vidhayak Hain Humare season 2 would be the first to reach, adopted by Zakir Khan: Tathastu.

Chacha Vidhayak Hain Humare season 2 was filming when the continued coronavirus pandemic pressured them to pause manufacturing, Khan revealed in a heartfelt eight-minute video the place he made the bulletins, alongside speaking about his journey and relationship with Amazon. Solely a few key sequences stay on Chacha Vidhayak Hain Humare season 2, Khan stated, which should be filmed as soon as restrictions on TV and movie productions to forestall the unfold of COVID-19 in India ease up.

Khan has beforehand delivered two stand-up specials for Amazon — Zakir Khan: Haq Se Single in July 2017, and Zakir Khan: Kaksha Gyaarvi in November 2018 — with Chacha Vidhayak Hain Humare season 1 sandwiched in between in Might 2018. Khan was one of many judges on Amazon’s comedy competitors sequence Comicstaan season 2 in July 2019, and part of Sapan Verma’s unscripted sequence One Mic Stand. Khan’s credit additionally embrace the satirical information comedy present On Air with AIB.

Amazon has over four.four million paid subscribers in India, as per final out there estimates by trade tracker IHS Markit. In January, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said they’re “doubling down on our Prime Video investments right here in India.”

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