Prime Video Renews Matka King for Season 2

Prime Video has renewed its Indian crime drama series Matka King for a second season, just weeks after the first season's premiere on April 17 drew record viewership.

The streaming service announced the renewal this week, citing the show's status as India's most-watched new homegrown scripted series on the platform over the past two years. Season 1 trended in the Top 10 across 37 countries and ranked number one in 17 countries during its opening week. The eight-episode debut, available globally on Prime Video, garnered a 75 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes from critics.

Set in 1960s Bombay, now Mumbai, the series follows Brij Bhatti, a humble cotton trader played by Vijay Varma, who launches an illegal gambling game known as matka. What begins as a small operation evolves into a vast underground empire, challenging the domain once reserved for the elite and weaving in themes of ambition, power, politics, and social change in post-independence India.

Nagraj Popatrao Manjule and Abhay Koranne created and wrote the series, with Manjule also directing. Producers include Siddharth Roy Kapur, Manjule, Gargi Kulkarni, Ashwini Sidwani, and Ashish Aryan under Roy Kapur Films,...