Raktanchal
| Raktanchal | |
|---|---|
Promotional poster | |
| Genre | Crime Drama |
| Written by | Sarvesh Upadhyay |
| Directed by | Ritam Srivastava |
| Starring | Kranti Prakash Jha Nikitin Dheer Chittaranjan Tripathy |
| Composers | Mannan Munjal Paresh Shah |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 18 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Gautam Talwar Shalabh Verma |
| Producers | Arjun Singgh Baran Kartk D Nishandar |
| Cinematography | Vijay Mishra |
| Production companies | Global Sports Entertainment and Media Solutions Pvt Ltd (GSEAMS) Pinaka Studios Pvt Ltd |
| Original release | |
| Network | MX Player |
| Release | 28 May 2020 |
Raktanchal is a Hindi-language crime drama web series directed by Ritam Srivastav for MX Player original. The story of the web-series is inspired by real-life events from the 1980s of two notable mafias Purvanchal, a region in east Uttar Pradesh. The series stars Kranti Prakash Jha and Nikitin Dheer along with Chittaranjan Tripathy, Vikram Kochhar, Pramod Pathak, Soundarya Sharma, Ronjini Chakraborty and Daya Shankar Pandey.
It is written by Sarvesh Upadhyay and produced by Chitra Vakil Sharma, Chandni Soni, Pradeep Gupta, Shashank Raai, Mahima Gupta under the banner of Pinaka Studios Pvt Ltd and Mahima Productions. The series was premiered on 28 May 2020 on OTT platform MX Player. Kranti Prakash Jha has said that there will be a second season. Second season of the series was premiered on 11 February 2022 on OTT platform MX Player. Second Season is produced by Arjun Singhh Baran & Kartk D Nishandar under the banner of Gseams.