Netflix Hosts A Star-Studded Premiere For Its Next Series, ‘Leila’, At The Royal Opera House In Mumbai

Netflix Inc., the world's leading internet entertainment service, hosted the premiere for its upcoming dystopian series, Leila, on 7 June, 2019, in Mumbai. Huma Qureshi, who essays the role of Shalini in the show, along with Creative Executive Producer and Director Deepa Mehta, co-director Shanker Raman, co-stars Arif Zakaria, Sanjay Suri, and Akash Khurana were amongst those who graced the red carpet.

Nandita Das opened the evening by inviting the celebrated and critically acclaimed filmmaker, and her long-time associate, Deepa Mehta on stage to introduce the series. Nandita Das has worked with Mehta on both Fire and Earth -1947, A Love Story.

Highly anticipated and eagerly awaited, the premiere of Leila saw a packed audience and impressive support from the Indian entertainment industry, including Shabana Azmi, Imran Khan, Siddharth Roy Kapur, Jim Sarbh, Kubra Sait, Russika Duggal, Dibaker Banerjee, Anil Dharkar, Tanuja Chandra, Uma Da Cunha, Sapna Bhavnani, Athiya Shetty, Ramesh Taurani, Neeraj Gheywan, Abhishek Chaubey, Divya Dutta, Shruti Seth, Jyoti Kapur Das, Mahesh Mathai, Alankrita Srivastav and Nandita Das, walk the red carpet, engaged with the cast and creative minds behind the series, and experienced a part of Leila’s dystopian world during the course of the evening.

All episodes of Leila premiere on Netflix worldwide on 14 June, 2019.

Huma Qureshi

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Tanuja Chandra

Sidharth Roy Kapur

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Lulia Vantur

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Huma Qureshi

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Dibakar Banerjee

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Imran Khan

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Shabana Azmi

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Sanjay Suri

Sanjay Suri

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Rasika Duggal

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Raj Nayak

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Shabana Azmi

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Jim Sarbh

Divya Dutta

Athiya Shetty

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Punit Malhotra

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Diana Panty

Nandita Das

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Ramesh Taurani with wife

Huma Qureshi

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

Premiere Of Netflix's Next Series Leila

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