India, April 23 -- Screenwriter-director Karan Anshuman began his career in films, but it was on streaming that he found true mainstream success, first with the sports drama Inside Edge and subsequently with the cult hit Mirzapur. Karan has since worked on Rana Naidu and the upcoming Glory. All his shows have an undercurrent of crime. Glory, his upcoming Netflix show, merges the world of sports with a crime thriller. In a chat with Hindustan Times, Karan talks about his love for the genre and how the world of Glory differs from Mirzapur.

Glory centres on boxing but also explores a murder mystery. Ask him if it was a plan to unify the two genres he has done earlier - sports and crime - and he says, "It's 100% subconscious." Karan, who has...