Lock Upp is set to return with its second season, Lock Upp: Sach Ya Sazaa, but with a major shake-up. Actor-politician Kangana Ranaut is no longer associated with the show, with Farah Khan and Riteish Deshmukh taking over hosting duties.
Producer Ektaa Kapoor revealed why Kangana wasn't brought back for the new season, stating that the entire format of the show had changed, along with the demographic and jailer-judge format.
Ektaa said, "The entire format of the show, the whole vision changed and the demographic, the kind of jailer-judge format we had. Nothing of the original show has been kept. Neither the jailer nor the host, so keeping anything of the old would not bring the fresh presentation of the branding. So I am sure Kangana would have understood."
The show will see 14 well-known personalities as ‘inmates’ inside a controlled, high-pressure jail, cut off from the outside world and subjected to increasingly challenging tasks.
Lock Upp: Sach Ya Sazaa is co-produced by Balaji Telefilms Ltd and Colosceum, with Malaya Pradhan serving as the Executive Producer. The reality show will stream on Netflix from June 27, every Saturday to Wednesday at 8 PM.
