Bollywood filmmaker Sanjay Gupta’s love for crime stories is well known by his fans. The Mumbai Saga director is now all set to direct his first web series which will also mark his production house White Feather Films’ foray into the OTT world. The 10-part series will be based on Baby Patankar aka Narcotics Queen of India. She was a struggling domestic worker who along with her two children was thrown out of her house by her abusive husband. Living on the streets taught the tough woman survival tactics. She rose to build the biggest narcotics empire, romance a cop while exploiting the relationship and locking horns with several drug lords. 

Speaking of helming the series on the Meow Meow Queen, which Baby Patankar was fondly known as, Sanjay said, “I have been waiting for the right material to come by. Crime being my forte and I enjoy the beat very much. Here is a story that deserves to be told in all its glory.” Baby Patankar was arrested after 120 kilos of MDMA was seized in her house. Her case was active till 2015. The series will go in floors in the next 6 months. Gupta’s production house is on the look out for a top OTT platform to premiere the series. It will also be co-produced by Bhushan Kumar of T-Series.