Siddharth To Play Freida Pinto’s Love Interest In New Series

LOS ANGELES, CA -Actor Siddharth, known for his work in ‘Rang De Basanti’, ‘Aayutha Ezhuthu’, and ‘Indian 2’, has joined Freida Pinto in the upcoming streaming series ‘Unaccustomed Earth’.

The series will have 8 episodes and is described as an epic, soapy, and culturally vibrant drama about a tight-knit Indian American community navigating love, desire, and belonging.

Siddharth will play Amit Mukherjee, the star-crossed love of Freida Pinto’s character, Parul Chaudhury. Amit is a warm-hearted Bengali American man, born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who wears his emotions openly and gives of himself freely, sometimes to his own detriment. The friend all his own friends turn to in a crisis, Amit is dependable in moments of need but struggles to find stability in work or love. Just as his latest relationship begins to feel promising, his carefully balanced world unravels with the unexpected return of his long-lost love.

Set in the interconnected immigrant hamlet of Cambridge, Massachusetts, the series follows a star-crossed romance between a devoted wife, Parul Chaudhury (played by Freida Pinto) and her long-lost love, and the scandalous affair that ensues.

The series is produced by John Wells of The Pitt and Madhuri Shekar of ‘3 Body Problem’.

On the personal front, Siddharth is enjoying marital bliss with his wife Aditi Rao Hydari. (IANS)