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India’s Suparn Varma, one of the writers and directors of Amazon Prime Video’s smash hit series “The Family Man,” has signed with CAA for representation.

Formerly a journalist, Varma began his career in film writing crime drama “Chhal” (2002), starring Kay Kay Menon and Prashant Narayanan, for director Hansal Mehta. Other early writing credits include Rohit Shetty’s thriller “Zameen” (2003) starring Ajay Devgn, drama romance “Janasheen” (2003) for cult filmmaker Feroz Khan and Sanjay F. Gupta’s crime drama “Karam” (2005) starring John Abraham and Priyanka Chopra Jonas.

Varma made his directorial debut with thriller “Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena (2005), starring Feroz Khan, Fardeen Khan and Kay Kay Menon. His next film as director was thriller “Acid Factory” (2009) featuring Irrfan Khan and Manoj Bajpayee and he went on to direct horror “Aatma” (2013), starring Bipasha Basu and Nawazuddin Siddiqui.

In the streaming space, Varma wrote Netflix’s comedy crime drama “Hasmukh,” headlined by Vir Das and Ranvir Shorey.

S. Hussain Zaidi is a Mumbai based investigative crime journalist, who has worked for some of India’s leading newspapers. One of his previous best selling books was Black Friday, which Anurag Kashyap successfully transformed onto screen. His most recent book is Dongri to Dubai: Six decades of the Mumbai Mafia and from this book has Shootout at Wadala been created. Sanjay Gupta says without it he could not have made this film, Anil Kapoor called it by far the best book on the Mumbai mafia and John Abraham hailed Zaidi as a master storyteller. If you have not had a chance to read the book, take it from us, it is an absolutely amazing book and having read the book recently, our expectations are sky high for the film. Further, Sanjay Gupta is back after a long hiatus and John Abraham attempts the role of gangster for the first time.