Every thriller junkie knows the joy of watching a trailer which continues to play in your head, over and over, until you finally watch the show or movie. Mind-bending trailers of The Vanishing and Gone Girl had that effect on me. Just this morning, the steadily growing OTT platform MX Player dropped the trailer of Samantar, and boy was I shook! I mustâve watched it thrice on loop, primarily because of the mysterious plot.  

Take a look at the trailer:

From what we see, Samantar isnât a traditional thriller. For starters, could the plot get any more baffling & gripping? The protagonist is on a relentless quest to track down Sudarshan Chakrapani â a man who has a similar destiny as his own. The life that the protagonist is living is one that Chakrapani has already lived. Freaky, right?

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It all starts when the protagonist of the show, Kumar Mahajan (played by Swwapnil Joshi) makes an unplanned visit to the astrologer as both his personal and professional life have hit rock bottom. However, this visit turns rather eerie when the astrologer says, âMaine yeh haath pehle bhi dekha haiâ. In an astonishing discovery, the protagonistâs future is another manâs past.

Bringing this mind-boggling plot to life is the heartthrob of Marathi cinema â Swwapnil Joshi. In addition to working in popular Marathi films like Duniyadari and Mitwaa, the actor has also been a part of the Bollywood movie Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!

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Based on the famous book âSamantarâ by Suhas Shivralkar, this MX Original brings together astrology, mystery, and thrill â one that will keep you hooked from the word go.

With an aim to cater to a wider audience set across India, the platform will be dubbing the Marathi web series in 3 other languages - Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. All languages will be going live simultaneously on Friday, the 13th of March â exclusively on MX Player. 

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