We are now sure that online streaming platforms like Netflix, Prime Video and Zee5 are a boon for those film-makers whose cinematic labours do not make it to the big screen. Like Cabaret. Produced by Pooja Bhatt, Cabaret stars Richa Chadha in the lead in what is her most sizzling role to date. Gulshan Devaiah has been cast opposite her. However, for some unexplained reason, the movie has been stuck in the cans for the last couple of years. Now the makers have ditched a theatrical release and are premiering Cabaret on Zee5. Shakeela Actress Richa Chadha To Make Her Debut As a Producer With a Teenage Love Story - Read Deets.

They have also revealed a new trailer that gives more insight into the plot of the film. So Richa Chadha is a cabaret dancer, whose enigmatic life finds interest in an alcoholic journalist, played by Gulshan Devaiah. Their acquaintance turns into friendship and later love, but like in any such movie, there is a villain. Here, it is a politician, played by former cricketer and most recently Bigg Boss 12's first runner-up S Sreesanth. Though he had made his acting debut earlier in Aksar 2, this might be a role that could have gotten Sreesanth notice in Bollywood (if it was not the fact that it is premiering on a streaming app). Bigg Boss 12 Winner: Dipika Kakar Beats Sreesanth And Walks Away With The Trophy.

Watch the trailer of Cabaret here -

Cabaret is directed by Kaustav Narayan Niyogi and is premiering on Zee 5 on January 9, 2019. Earlier, Emraan Hashmi's Tigers, that was also finding difficulty to be released in a theatre, found its way to Zee5.

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