Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK, also known as Raj and DK, launched their Bollywood careers with the well-regarded and eccentric 99. (2009). They released Shor In The City (2011), a zombie comedy called Go Goa Gone (2013), and then a romantic comedy called Happy Ending as their follow-ups (2014). They were going to make Farzi with Shahid Kapoor and Nawazuddin Siddiqui after Happy Ending. Raj and DK even stated in an exclusive interview with Bollywood Hungama in November 2014 that “Farzi is like Shor In The City on steroids.”
Raj and DK are getting ready to release Farzi in the present, some nine years later. Now, however, it is a web series. Vijay Sethupathi has taken over but Shahid Kapoor has been kept on. Raj Nidimoru, Krishna DK, and Shahid Kapoor provided an explanation of why Farzi was made as a web series at the release of the trailer for the film today.
Krishna DK said, “Raj, I and writers Sita Menon and Suman Kumar had conceived the idea of Farzi some eight years ago. It was supposed to be a feature film. And finally, it saw the light of day a couple of years back when we decided to make it into a series. It’s been a long journey from where it started to this day.”
Shahid Kapoor elaborated, “We started talking about the show even before the film fraternity started getting onto OTT. This is because I love their shows. I loved The Family Man 1 and 2. They (Raj and DK) called me to offer a film. I asked ‘Film toh theek hai. OTT mein kya kar rahe ho?’. They asked me, ‘Are you serious or are you joking?’. I said ‘Absolutely I would love to do a show’. They narrated an idea that strangely eight years back, we had discussed with each other as a movie (idea). At that time (we couldn’t do it) as it was too big in terms of the length of the story or to fit into a single film. The best thing that happened to Farzi is that it didn’t become a movie as I don’t think we would have been able to do justice to it. We have the first season which is equal to 2 ½ movies. If people like it, we can make another 2 ½ movies and another 2 ½ movies.”
On February 10, Farzi will make its Amazon Prime Video debut. Shahid Kapoor laughed as he said about the streaming juggernaut, “We had a great time together. Although their contracts are terrifying, they are amazing people!”