26 November,2024 09:29 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
The Night Manager
The 52nd International Emmy Awards was hosted in New York on the eve of November 25. The show was hosted by Indian stand-up comedian and actor Vir Das who also won an Emmy last year for his stand-up special. This year, there was only one nomination for India. Sandeep Modi created The Night Manager starring Aditya Roy Kapur, Anil Kapoor and Sobhita Dhulipala was nominated in the Best Drama series category. The show was competing with three other nominees - the French show Les Gouttes de Dieu (Drops of God), the Australian show The Newsreader-Season 2, and Argentina's Iosi, El Espia Arrepentido Season 2 (Yosi, the Regretful Spy). Les Gouttes de Dieu was announced as the winner.
'The Night Manager' is a 1993 novel by British author John Le Carre, who passed away in December 2020. The series is an official Hindi adaptation of John le Carre's novel 'The Night Manager', produced by The Ink Factory and Banijay Asia. The story revolves around the night manager of a luxury hotel, a former soldier, who is recruited by a government espionage organization, to infiltrate the inner circle of an arms dealer. The 'Night Manager' Indian version shows Shaan Sengupta, played by Roy Kapur, a night manager at a Dhaka hotel who gets embroiled in the world of international arms dealer Shailendra (Anil Kapoor) after he witnesses a brutal crime.
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