India, July 10 -- For Shafeeq Mustafa, from the small town of Shoranur in Kerala's Palakkad district, getting a role in Nagesh Kukunoor's series, The Hunt: The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case, was nothing short of a golden opportunity. He just has one mainstream Malayalam film to his credit, and was also a part of another film that never saw the light of day. The only big project that Shafeeq was associated with before the 2025 Hindi series was the 2020 Malayalam film Ayyappanum Koshiyum, starring Prithviraj Sukumaran.

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In the Hindi series The Hunt (SonyLiv and OTTplay Premium), the Malayalam actor played the real-life character of Sivarasan, an ...