ZEE5, India’s largest homegrown OTT platform has presented Originals across languages and genres with meaningful and purposeful content. With phenomenal content across genres, State of Siege: 26/11 was a tribute to our brave Indian soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country during the dreadful 26/11 Mumbai attacks. After establishing a successful franchise, the platform will now premiere the second season (Original film) titled State of Siege: Temple Attack, starring Akshaye Khanna; in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu simultaneously. After releasing a much talked about teaser, the platform now releases the trailer.
The trailer begins with a disdain speech in the background while 4 terrorists entering a temple open firing. They are then shown to keep a number of pilgrims / visitors as hostages. Akshaye Khanna who is making his digital debut is seen playing the character of Major Hanut Singh indicates an incident in the past and requests his senior to send him in for the operation. With vast action scenes and remarkable dialogue delivery, the trailer surely keeps you at the edge of your seat.
“There is an immense amount of hard-work that has gone into making this film, the trailer is a quick adrenaline pumping snapshot of the film. This film is our tribute to the NSG, shares director Ken Ghosh.
“State of Siege: 26/11 was launched with the with the hope of giving the audience a captivating and engaging drama and we are glad viewers responded positively. The second part is also inspired from true events and the trailer will give you a glimpse into what to expect from this important film which salutes the NSG for their bravery. It is filled with action, emotion, suspense and thrill”, shares Nimisha Pandey, Head Hindi Originals, ZEE5.
Along with Akshaye Khanna, Vivek Dahiya and Gautam Rode will also be seen playing NSG commandos along with actor Akshay Oberoi in a cameo. The dream team who created State of Siege: 26/11, Contiloe Pictures (Abhimanyu Singh) is back to produce the film directed by Ken Ghosh who helmed the hugely popular and successful Abhay 2 as well. Lt. Col (retd.) Sundeep Sen (who was the second in command at the NSG during the 26/11 Mumbai attacks) was a consultant on both the State of Siege projects.
State of Siege: Temple Attack is slated to premiere on 9th July on ZEE5.
