Karan Johar is reportedly turning his ‘Student of the Year’ movie franchise into a web series. The next instalment of the franchise, ‘Student of the Year 3’ will also mark the OTT debut of budding actor Shanaya Kapoor, the daughter of Sanjay and Maheep Kapoor.
While Shanaya is set to make her acting debut with Mohanlal’s pan-India film ‘Vrushabha,’ she has already worked as an assistant director on actor Jahnvi Kapoor’s ‘Gunjan Saxon: The Kargil Girl.’ Meanwhile, a report said KJo is turning the ‘SOTY’ franchise into a web series in partnership with Disney+ Hotstar. The project is currently in the writing stage and is scheduled to go on floors in the last quarter of this year.
The show is expected to introduce more fresh faces alongside Shanaya, and the casting process is reportedly underway. While nothing has been proven yet, the work on the series is going on in full swing at Dharma’s digital content arm, Dharmatic Entertainment. The director for the series is expected to be finalised within a month.
In 2012, Johar introduced Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, and Sidharth Malhotra in his high-school drama. The film was turned into a franchise seven years later with 'Student of the Year 2.’ The second movie, directed by Puneet Malhotra, launched Ananya Pandey and Tara Sutaria into films; they were seen alongside Tiger Shroff. Now, four years later, the high school movie franchise is set for one more edition, albeit as a web series.