MUMBAI: After receiving great response, MX Player’s popular crime-drama Raktanchal will soon return with its second season. The series managed to keep viewers hooked with its storyline leaving the audience waiting for the next season.

TellyChakkar broke the news about Bollywood actors Ashish Vidyarthi and Mahie Gill joining the cast for the second season.

Now, we have learnt that actor Mukesh S Bhatt, who has been part of films like A Wednesday, Special 26, M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, has been roped in for the series.

Raktanchal is a series about the game of power, politics and war between two gangs. The show stars Nikitin Dheer, Kranti Prakash Jha, Soundarya Sharma, Ronjini Chakraborty, Chittaranjan Tripathy, Pramod Pathak, and Vikram Kochhar.

Raktanchal is written by Sanjeev K Rajat, Sarvesh Upadhyay, and Shashak Rai and produced by Pradeep Gupta, Shashank Raai, Mahima Gupta under the banner of Pinaka Studios Pvt Ltd and Mahima Productions.

The story of the show Raktanchal is based on real-life rivalry between two gangs in Purvanchal. The show is set in the 80's and Waseem Khan and Vijay Singh are two mafias who are trying to conquer over the other’s area and ultimately over the entire Purvanchal. The show is about the game of power, politics and bloodshed in the process.