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No Indian director is as synonymous with the thriller genre as Neeraj Pandey. His previous collaborations with Netflix on behalf of his Friday Storytellers banner include the 2024 original heist film Alexander’s fate and its two seasons khaki Crime Series (Bihar Chapter and in 2022 Bengal Chapter in 2025).
Now Pandey is back with a new series that focuses on an underserved branch of law enforcement: customs agents. Pandey says: “AWe are all familiar with imports, yet what happens behind the scenes is rarely seen. The world of customs is not something that has been seen on screen, and that was part of the appeal of our effort to introduce our audience to a new unknown world, which is calm, disciplined and high-pressure.“
new series – Taskery: The Smuggler’s Web – is the first collaboration between Pandey and the actor Emraan Hashmi. Hashmi was one of the first leads of Netflix India, starring in the 2019 detective series bard of blood. His memorable cameo in 2025 scoundrels of bollywood Was one of the main attractions of the show.
Taskery: The Smuggler’s Web Created by Pandey, who shares directorial duties Raghav Jayarath. Pandey co-wrote the series with him Alexander’s fate co-author Vipul K. Rawal.
what is the plot of Taskery: The Smuggler’s Web?
This way Netflix describes New Hindi Thriller Series:
Major smuggling corridors span Al-Derra, Addis Ababa, Milan and Bangkok, taskery Unlocks the complex machinery of the world of international smuggling – a web built on coded routes, false disclosures and calculated misdirection. At the heart of this is a special Customs Task Force at Mumbai International Airport, one of the busiest airports in the country, led by an honest team of officers..
who has been inserted Taskery: The Smuggler’s Web?
The meticulous team of customs agents is played by:
- Emraan Hashmi as a supervisor Arjun Meena
- Amrita Khanvilkar (Malang) As Mithali Kamath
- Nandish Singh Sandhu (super 30) As Ravinder Gujjar
- Anurag Sinha (My love I swear this on you) As Prakash Kumar
Sharad Kelkar (Srikanth) plays the villain of the series, a smuggling kingpin Bada Chaudhary.
Taskery: The Smuggler’s Web It has 7 episodes and a TV-MA rating in the United States. It is subtitled in 34 languages ​​(including Hindi closed captions) and features dubbed dialogue in English, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Latin America), Tamil and Telugu.
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