(MENAFN- Khaleej Times)

The trailer of Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit's new streaming show Mrs. Deshpande, a mystery thriller, is out.

Directed by Nagesh Kukunoor, the show will release on the Indian streaming platform JioHotstar on December 19.

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Mrs. Deshpande follows Mumbai as it reels from murders echoing the signature of a long-captured serial killer. The police turn to the original killer, a gentle, unassuming woman hiding a far darker truth.

The trailer was launched earlier this week in Mumbai, in the presence of Dixit, Kukunoor and co-star Priyanshu Chatterjee.

Dixit said the series might come as a major surprise for her fans, as she calls it one of the most multi-layered characters she has portrayed to date.

When asked about the characters she has never portrayed on screen, Dixit said, "I feel to a large extent, Mrs. Deshpande is going to do that because they have not seen me like that ever on screen."

With her role as a serial killer in the series, Dixit said she's breaking the usual mould of female characters in Indian entertainment.

"You're breaking a mould because I don't think we've had a movie or a series done on a woman serial killer yet. I don't think so, at least and the way it has been portrayed, Nagesh Kukunoor has done a fabulous job," said Madhuri Dixit.

The director and the team backing the project gave her the confidence to take the plunge, she said.

"...The script has to be in the right hands to portray a character like this. Since it's a very different thing people might feel, 'oh, what is this', you know, kind of a thing. But, I think we have tried to be very true to the character and portray her in the most natural, real, kind of way," Dixit explained.

The show is produced by Applause Entertainment in association with Kukunoor Movies.

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