Hunkkaar: The Roar trailer is out!
Aneet Padda leads the ensemble cast as Meenu Rawat.
Fatima Shaikh portrays ACP Jasleen Singh Soni, while Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub plays advocate Bhalerao.
JioHotstar unveiled the trailer for the upcoming series Hunkkaar: The Roar. The gripping socio-thriller and courtroom drama stars Aneet Padda, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Raghubir Yadav, Ram Kapoor and Arjun Mathur, among others.
Hunkkaar trailer breakdown
The series revolves around Meenu Rawat (Aneet Padda), a 17-year-old young woman, and a student at the Mahasherni School inside Baapji's Shaburi Fort who is allegedly assaulted by Baapji, the powerful godman (Raghubir Yadav). The trailer starts with Fatima introducing herself as investigating officer ACP Jasleen Singh Soni and asking Meenu to share her ordeal with the cult leader.
The trailer presents Meenu as defiant, complicated and unpredictable who refuses to be boxed into familiar ideas of how a victim should behave. It puts her at the centre of a battle over truth, power and perception.
Conflict runs through the police investigation, the courtroom and the media. Each setting carries its own stakes, and each offers a different version of what happened.
Zeeshan plays Meenu's lawyer Bhalerao in the series while Ram Kapoor represents Baapji.
Watch the trailer here.
What the cast said about Hunkkaar
"Meenu isn’t defined by what happened to her, but by what she chooses after. She’s young, complicated and not always easy to understand, that’s what makes her real. Her one constant? A refusal to be silenced. I hope audiences see her vulnerability and the defiance at the heart of her journey," Padda said on playing Meenu.
Shaikh said, "What drew me to her was her ability to remain focused on her responsibility even as the world around the investigation becomes increasingly complicated. She is dealing with power, influence, public opinion and the pressure that comes with a case of this magnitude, but she continues to search for what is true."
Ayyub, on his character, said, "He enters a situation where the power dynamics are heavily stacked against him, but his belief in what the law should stand for keeps him going, he is the conscious of this story, the show. What I liked about it, is that it doesn't present the truth as something simple or convenient."
Hunkkaar release date
It is produced by Birla Studios and Applause Entertainment, in association with Purple Pebble Pictures A Mangata Films Production, with Priyanka Chopra Jonas serving as executive producer.
Directed by Karan D Kapadia, Nitya Mehra and Heeraz Marfatia, the show will premiere on September 25.
