Over the past few days, Suniel Shetty has been poring over the pages of Black Scorpion: To Hell and Back. And it’s not just for leisure. mid-day has exclusively learnt that the actor is planning to turn the recently published book — which chronicles the life of Shyam Kishore Garikapati, one of the most feared operatives in Mumbai’s underworld in the late 1980s and 1990s — into a web series.

(L-R) Vijay Shekhar, Suniel Shetty, Raju Santhanam, and Calvin Joshua. Pics/Instagram, X, Youtube