Inside ‘Pritam and Pedro’: Rajkumar Hirani and Arshad Warsi deconstruct comedy and its mechanics
Creator, producer and co-writer Rajkumar Hirani, actor Arshad Warsi and director Avinash Arun discuss their show, ‘Pritam and Pedro’, how Rajkumar and Arshad work with comedy, the actor’s ability to crack jokes in unusual instances, why Rajkumar prefers editing his own work and more
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Rajkumar Hirani brings his trademark comic punches and light-hearted storytelling to OTT with his streaming debut, the upcoming JioHotstar show Pritam and Pedro. Inspired by the books Hidden Files (published by Unbound Script, 2025) and Return of the Trojan Horse (published by Leadstart Publishing) by Amit Dubey,the series tells a story centred around cybercrime featuring an unlikely bond between an angry cop, played by Arshad Warsi, and a hacker, played by Vir Hirani. Rajkumar, who serves as the creator, producer and co-writer, says that he discovered these books and was fascinated by how a cybercrime takes place and how it gets solved.While working on the episodic series, the filmmaker realised that the writing process had to be different from a feature film.
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