Watch: A dysfunctional royal family in web series ‘Kaun Banegi Shikharwati’
The cast includes Naseeruddin Shah, Raghubir Yadav, Soha Ali Khan, Lara Dutta, Kritika Kamra and Anya Singh and Varun Thakur. Out on Zee5 on January 7.

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