''Escaype Live'' is an 2022 Indian

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-language

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series created and directed by Siddharth Kumar Tewary. It is Written by Jaya Misra and

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and has been dialogued by Vinod Sharma, Amol Surve and Ranveer Pratap Singh. Produced by

under the banner of One Life Studios. The series stars Siddharth, Jaaved Jaaferi,

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Waluscha De Sousa Waluscha De Sousa (born 28 November 1979) is an Indian actress and model. She made her debut in the 2016 Hindi film ''Fan (film), Fan''. Early life and education Waluscha De Sousa hails from Goa and is of paternal Portuguese people, Portugues ...

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and Ritvik Sahore. Escaype Live 9 episodes were launched on

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in two instalments within a week of each other. Episode 1- 7 were dropped on 20 May 2022 and the finale two a week later thereby successfully engaging their viewers and building curiosity over its content within the week.

Plot

A live streaming app’s announced a contest promising instant fame and fortune to its most popular participant turns mundane lives of 6 regular Indian’s upside down as their every reality begins to change form. Escaype Live, is a social thriller series offering a glimpse into the minds of people living in the world of social media and how far they’re willing to go to get what they want. And how as the lines between the real and virtual begin to blur, the rules of the game change and the order of morality transforms. When the stakes are high how far is a person willing to go to achieve their dreams. And how much is really too much?

Cast

* Siddharth as Krishna Rangaswamy * Jaaved Jaaferi as Ravi Gupta *

as Sunaina *

as Gia Bose *

as Dark Angel aka Darkie, Bablu in flash back *

as Hina aka Fetish Girl * Ritvik Sahore as Nilesh Sonawane aka Aamcha Spider * Aadya Sharma as Rani Singh aka Dance Rani * Rohit Chandel as Rajkumar aka Meena *

Swastika Mukherjee Swastika Mukherjee (born 13 December 1980) is an Indian actress and the daughter of the late Santu Mukhopadhyay. Mukherjee made her screen debut with ''Devdasi'', a Bengali TV series. She made her big screen debut with '' Hemanter Pakhi'' (2 ...

as Mala * Alekh Sangal as Baldev * Geetika Vidya Ohlyan as Sita * Jagjeet Sandhu as Nandu *

Mallika Singh Mallika Singh (born 15 September 2000) is an Indian television actress known for the portrayal of Devi Radha and Devi Lakshmi in ''RadhaKrishn'' and ''Jai Kanhaiya Lal Ki'' respectively. Career In 2016, Singh appeared in Zee TV's '' Janbaaz ...

as Shrini Rangaswamy *

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as Devna *

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as Rajkumar's Father * Sanjay Narvekar as Aamcha's Father * Smita Tambe as Aamcha's Mother *

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as Laxmi Amma * Anagh Jain as Dhruv * Ashwin Mushran as Jogi Balla / Dhruv's Father *

Aditi Govitrikar Aditi Govitrikar (born 21 May 1974) is an Indian actress, physician and former model. She is the first Indian woman to win the Mrs. World title in 2001. From 1997 to 2004, Govitrikar remained the only Indian supermodel with both a medical doctor ...

as Meenal Bhalla / Dhruv's Mother * Kunal Thakkar as Kunal (CTO) * Khuman as Tashi

Series overview

Episodes

Release

The trailer of the series was released on 26 April 2022 consisting of seven episodes premiered on

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on 20 May 2022 and remaining two episodes were released on 27 May 2022.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, id=15128122
Escaype Live
on

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