Hats Off production is all set to produce a play based on writer cum producer Aatish Kapadia's novel, Resham Dankh.

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The show will be a social thriller that will be on air on either of the Star channels (sources indicate that it could be Star One). The novel was co written by Kapadia two years ago and will soon see a version on the telly.

"It's a very different kind of a story and it's interesting. We haven't done a show like this before so it will be a nice change. It has a finite end and will not go on for ever," says Kapadia, refusing to divulge any details.

"It's not a run of the mill thriller. It happens within a family...and that's the beauty of the show. At the end people will be shocked," says JD.

This is not the first time that Kapadia's works have been adapted by the visual medium. The story of the Amitabh Bachchan starrer, Aankhen is adapted from Kapadia's Gujarati play, Andhla Pato (the Gujarati equivalent of Blindman's Bluff), first staged in 1992. Waqt is also based on the stupendously successful Gujarati play, Vhala Fari Malishu Aavjo, penned by Kapadia.