India, Apr 14: Kannada Zee5 unveiled the trailer of original series ‘JERAX’, a six‑episode fantasy comedy thriller that has been attracting attention ever since its title and lead cast were announced. Produced by Actor Dhananjaya of Daali Pictures and written and directed by Srinidhi Bengaluru, Jerax brings together a strong set of veteran actors, led by Nagabhushana, Payal Chengappa, Manju Pavagada, Om Prakash Rao, Srivatsa, Yashwanth Shetty, Vijaya Prasad, Thukali Santhu, Jagappa, Siddu Mandya, and Sudhakar Gowda among others.
In the town of Rayadurga, Prakasha (Nagabhushana) is the kind of young man no one really notices, a xerox shop worker who hopes life might one day acknowledge him. His world changes the moment a curious piece of Thayitha merges with his old copying machine. Suddenly, copies stop being copies. They start walking, speaking, remembering.
A duplicate of one man becomes the catalyst for another. A small lie becomes a larger threat. As identical faces begin appearing in unexpected corners of the town, Rayadurga starts to fracture, socially, politically, emotionally. And behind it all stands Prakasha, watching as the line between the life he wanted and the life, he unleashed dissolves into something darker, stranger, and impossible to reverse.
Producer Daali Dhananjaya shares, “What fascinated me about Jerax from the beginning was how the story hides a philosophical punch behind a seemingly bizarre idea. A xerox machine that prints humans sounds outrageous, but the emotional truth beneath it is painfully real, what happens when people refuse to face their own shadows? The series explores loneliness, power, guilt, and the kind of moral collapse that can begin in silence. We were drawn to its courage. This is not just a thriller or a fantasy; it’s a mirror held up to the parts of ourselves we do not want copied.”
Director and Writer Srinidhi Bengaluru add up, “Jerax was born from a very simple fear, what if the version of you that you try to hide suddenly stood in front of you? The duplicates in the show are not monsters; they are reflections. Through Malavalli’s politics, relationships, and chaos, I wanted to explore how identity breaks, multiplies, and corrupts under pressure. I didn’t want the fantasy to be an escape; I wanted it to feel like an intrusion into everyday life. When the extraordinary enters the ordinary, the truth of a person becomes impossible to mask, and that’s the heartbeat of Jerax.”
Actor Nagabhushana said, “Prakasha is a man the world never really looked at, until he begins creating versions of it. Playing him demanded stepping into a space where innocence, insecurity, love, and obsession are constantly shifting. He is not evil, but he becomes dangerous; he is not powerful, but he becomes responsible for overwhelming consequences. Jerax forced me to explore how fragile a person becomes when they are starved of visibility, and how power can turn that fragility into something unpredictable. It’s a character who keeps slipping away from definition, and that is what made him both haunting and human.”
Stay tuned for this ride on Kannada Zee5 from April 24th
