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This Hot Properties session shines a light on two upcoming dramas expected to have an impact on the international market over the next 18 months. We hear how the projects were created, developed, packaged and sold from those closest to the project.
This session features: AGHA and Reyka.

AGHA
Adapted from the book ʻLabyrinth of the Wind’ by Madhav Misra, Agha is the story of Indian expat, Ayan Pathak, who finds himself drawn into a turbulent vortex of espionage and nuclear geopolitics in a volatile Tehran on the brink of revolution. Ayan is recruited into this mission against his will after his brilliant and barely legal manoeuvring around India's tightly regulated import laws of the time gets him noticed by its intelligence agency, R&AW. We follow Ayan on his journey as he transforms from selfish profiteer, to reluctant protagonist, to plucky hero, and finally, to suave spy. A co-production between India's International Storytelling Company, BANG BANG, and The Big Bang Theory star, Kunal Nayyar's Good Karma.
Speakers: Roopak Saluja, Kunal Nayyar.

Reyka
Reyka, known in some territories as The Canefield Killings, tells the story of a criminal profiler, Reyka Gama (Kim Engelbrecht), who is struggling to come to terms with her dark past. Having been abducted as a child by farmer Angus Speelman (played by Iain Glen) Reyka uses that experience to understand the minds of serial killers. The series follows her investigation into a string of brutal murders in the sugar cane fields of Kwa-Zulu-Natal, South Africa. 20 years on from her abduction, the manipulative, charming Speelman is now up for parole and Reyka holds the key to whether he will be released or not. But Speelman still exerts a powerful hold on her, and this relationship, together with the one she is struggling to rebuild with her mother Elsa and her daughter Thuli, forms the spine of the story.
Speakers: Nimrod Geva, Serena Cullen and Iain Glen.