‘Matka King’: Prime Video Crowns Second Season Of Crime Drama Set In 1960s India

EXCLUSIVE: After hitting top spot in 17 territories last month, a second season of Prime Video Indian gambling crime drama Matka King was odds-on, and the Amazon streamer has now played its hand.

The Vijay Varma-starring series has been commissioned for Season 2 after the first run became the service’s most-watched new scripted show of the past two years.

Set against the fast-changing backdrop of 1960s Bombay (now Mumbai), the series follows Varma as humble cotton trader Brij Bhatti, who transforms into a illegal gambling kingpin after starting a ‘Matka’ game that takes the city by storm and democratizes a terrain previously reserved for the rich and elite. As the game grows, Brij begins to change his morals as power, money and ambition take a hold.

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