Director Subhash Kapoor is gearing up as he has started prepping for his next upcoming project. Well, this one is not Gulshan Kumar biopic with the perfectionist Aamir Khan but it's about the director's foray into the digital world.

Subhash, the Jolly LLB franchise director is now all set to kick-on his web-series for SonyLIV and it has been recently learned that the filmmaker has roped in the stunning Huma Qureshi to play the lead in the political drama series, titled Maharani. Huma will be seen playing the titular role who goes through various ups and downs in her political career. Although the plot of the series is yet to be disclosed, it is said that the show will be a hard-hitting social satire like his earlier movies such as Phas Gaye Re Obama and the Jolly LLB series.

Karan Sharma has been brought in to direct the web series who earlier directed an Internationally acclaimed short film Black Holi (2013). Maharani will be Huma's fourth web project and the shooting will commence next month in Bhopal. The actress made her debut in the OTT world last year with Netflix's dystopian drama Leila and since then has worked in Dibakar Banerjee's Freedom and Zack Snyder's international project Army of the Dead-both for Netflix and are yet to premiere.

Huma will also be seen in Ranjit M Tewari's spy film 'Bell Bottom' that stars Akshay Kumar, Lara Dutta and Vaani Kapoor in pivotal roles. The filming of 'Bell Bottom' has been recently wrapped up and will release next year.