Mumbai, Feb. 29 -- The star cast of the upcoming series IC 814: The Kandahar hijack has been revealed today by the makers. It will comprise of Naseeruddin Shah, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Vijay Varma, Aditya Srivastav, Anupam Tripathi, Kumud Mishra, Arvind Swami, Pankaj Kapur, Amrita Puri, Patralekhaa Paul, Pooja Gaur, Manoj Pahwa, and Yashpal Sharma.

Revolving around the hijack incident of December 24, 1999 of an Indian Airlines flight IC 814 which was en route from Kathmandu to Delhi. The hijack lasted for over 7 days becoming one of the longest hijacks in the history of India.

Talking about the project, director Anubhav Sinha said, , "You are thirty thousand feet from the ground; the aircraft is in control by armed and dangerous people, ...