EXCLUSIVE: We’ve got the first trailer from Amazon Prime Video’s first original Tamil series, Suzhal – The Vortex here. The investigative thriller drama, written and created by creative duo Pushkar and Gayatri, runs to eight parts and follows events that wreak havoc in a small industrial town following the disappearance of a schoolgirl.
The series stars the likes of Kathir, Aishwarya Rajesh, Sriya Reddy and Radhakrishnan Parthiban, the series launches across 240 Amazon territories on June 17. It will release across multiple Indian languages including Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and English, as well several European languages, Latin Spanish, Arabic, and Turkish.
Suzhal – The Vortex begins with the disappearance of a young girl from a small town in Tamil Nadu. What begins as a missing-person investigative drama soon spirals into a thriller with twists and secrets that threatening to tear apart the town and its delicate social fabric.
Bramma, who directed the first four episodes, said: “Suzhal – The Vortex is an effort in differentiated storytelling that’s sure to strike a chord on various levels. With one dark mystery lying at core, the series manoeuvres through a rollercoaster of situations, beliefs and secrets that makes the characters, and the viewers constantly oscillate between what’s true and what’s not.”
Amazon, which launched in India in 2016, recently unveiled a 40-strong slate of TV series and films, as part of plans to double its investment in the country over the next five years.
Local chiefs Gaurav Gandhi and Aparna Purohit recently told Deadline that constantly engaging with the “well developed creative ecosystems” in India’s various language segments, which include Tamil, has been key to the Amazon Prime Video’s local impact since launching there more than five years ago.
