Netflix’s ‘Delhi Crime’ Season 2 Showrunner & Director Tanuj Chopra Signs With WME

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EXCLUSIVE: Delhi Crime Season 2 showrunner and director Tanuj Chopra has signed with WME.The deal comes following the launch of the buzzy second run of Netflix’s crime procedural, whose first season made history in 2020 by becoming the first Indian show to win the Outstanding Drama Series award at the International Emmys.Chopra took over showrunning duties from creator Richie Mehta for the second run, which debuted on the streamer August 26 and is from SK Global Entertainment, Golden Karavan and Film Karavan.Previously an indie filmmaker, Chopra has written, directed and produced four grand jury prize-winning features including Punching at the Sun, a gritty movie about teens coming of age in post-9/11 Queens that was the first South Asian American film to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.

He also picked up awards for Chee and T, Grass and the improvised dark comedy Staycation, which won the LA Muse Fiction Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2018.Chopra is currently in post-production on a short documentary about Brown University’s dynamo point guard Shayna Mehta, with support from the Center for Asian American Media.

As Deadline reported last week, he is also developing a series based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s novel Devdas that is set up at Searchlight.Raised in Silicon Valley, Chopa was awarded the Dean’s Fellowship at Columbia University, where he studied for an MFA in film direction and has since returned to as a lecturer, and was selected for the 2018 Sundance Episodic Lab, the Fox Global Filmmaker Initiative, and the Sony TV directors lab programs.

He runs production workshops for at-risk youth in the Bay Area.Delhi Crime Season 2 follows those same characters as the first – Shefali Shah’s DCP