Ali Fazal, Sonali Bendre team up for untitled series on Ranga-Billa case

“The team has been researching the case in detail for months now. The show will focus on the events as they unfolded following the murder case. It’s being treated with sensitivity and aims to show how deeply the case affected Delhi,” the release said.

In 1978, Ranga and Billa had kidnapped two siblings who had hitched a ride with them in the heart of Delhi for ransom. But when the criminals came to know that the brother-sister duo Geeta and Sanjay Chopra were the children of a naval officer, they panicked and killed them. Geeta was raped before she was killed.

Kuljeet Singh alias Ranga Khus and Jasbir Singh alias Billa were awarded the death penalty and executed four years later.

The case led to widespread public outrage and played a significant role in the development of stricter laws related to kidnapping and child safety.

Fazal will be seen next in Anurag Basu’s multi-starrer romance drama Metro… In Dino, Sunny Deol-led Lahore 1947, and Mani Ratnam’s Tamil movie, Thug Life, alongside Kamal Haasan.

Bendre was last seen in Prime Video’s film Be Happy, which starred Abhishek Bachchan in the lead.