The Freelancer

A man on an extraction mission, a young girl held captive in a war-torn hostile environment of Syria, how will she escape this world of death? Disney+ Hotstar is all set to release the biggest extraction series of the year, ‘The Freelancer’.  The series is based on the book – A Ticket to Syria by Shirish Thorat, directed by Bhav Dhulia, produced by Friday Storytellers and Neeraj Pandey is the Creator and Showrunner. Set to release on September 1, 2023 on Disney+ Hotstar, The Freelancer is helmed by popular actor Mohit Raina and veteran actor Anupam Kher along with Kashmira Pardeshi. The series also features talented actors like Sushant Singh, John Kokken, Gauri Balaji and Navneet Malik, Manjiri Faddnis, Sarah Jane Dias  amongst others

A sense of achievement is felt the most when your work is noticed and appreciated by experienced players in the respective industry. From being an assistant director to directing a star cast including legendary actor Anupam Kher and Mohit Raina in a large-scale production with Neeraj Pandey has been an accelerating career growth which Bhav Dhulia is surely grateful for.

Speaking about his experience of working with Neeraj Pandey, Bhav Dhulia says, ‘This is our second collaboration and I was offered to direct. The Freelancer by Neeraj Sir, as soon as I finished the shooting schedule of the previous show I was completely taken aback by the unique story and the grandeur of the series. It was an absolutely new world for me and the best chance to break through the genre I had worked on earlier. The experience of shooting with sir was unique because it was an international large-scale production venture the likes of which we haven’t seen before for a web series. I was transported from the villages of Bihar in Khakee to Morocco for the Freelancer. We had a mix crew of people from Morocco, Europe, America, and the Middle East. It was a one-of-a-kind experience to lead a diverse crew of this magnitude.”

Witness the mission of  ‘The Freelancer’ to save Aliya, September 1, 2023 onwards, only on Disney+ Hotstar