‘Hostages 2’ trailer: New season stars Ronit Bose Roy, Divya Dutta, Dino Morea, Shibani Dandekar
Sudhir Mishra is the showrunner and Sachin Mamta Krishan is the director. Out on Disney+ Hotstar on September 9.

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