Applause Entertainment, India’s leading content studios, has acquired the exclusive screen rights to six of Jeffrey Archer’s most iconic novels — The Clifton Chronicles, Fourth Estate, First Among Equals, The Eleventh Commandment, Sons of Fortune, and Heads You Win. 

Known for reimagining global formats and Indian books into acclaimed screen stories, this marks Applause’s first global fiction book acquisition, bringing one of the world’s most-widely read authors into its growing content slate.

Spanning political drama, espionage, media power struggles, and multi-generational family sagas, these six titles offer a vast and versatile narrative canvas, rooted in Archer’s signature style of pace, plot twists, and character-driven storytelling. Applause will reimagine and develop these stories into premium series and feature films across languages and platforms, bringing Archer’s world to screen, made in India for the world.

With this collaboration, Applause expands its creative horizon, blending iconic global storytelling with its own unique narrative sensibility, and continuing to build a content slate that is bold, cinematic, and ready for the world stage. It also opens up a fertile creative ground for creators, writers and directors to engage with universally-loved narratives and reimagine them with a contemporary, cinematic voice.

Sameer Nair, Managing Director, Applause Entertainment, said, “This is a milestone moment for us. We’ve told stories reimagined from Indian books, formats, and real events and now we step into the world of global fiction. Jeffrey Archer’s novels are compelling, character-rich, and built for screen. To reimagine these stories with scale and style, and to position them for audiences across the globe, that’s the creative opportunity we’re excited about.”

Author, Jeffrey Archer, added, “It’s an absolute pleasure to collaborate with Sameer Nair and the team at Applause Entertainment. Their passion for storytelling, their body of work, and their global outlook make them the perfect partners to bring my books to screen. I’ve always had a deep fondness for India, a nation that has embraced my stories like its own, and as an ardent cricket lover, it’s a country I feel incredibly connected to.  I’m thrilled to see my characters and stories take on a new life, across India, and far beyond.”

Applause Entertainment is a leading Content & IP Creation Studio with a focus on premium drama series, movies, documentaries and animation content. A venture of the Aditya Birla Group, led by media veteran Sameer Nair, the studio has produced and released popular series across genres and languages which includes shows like The Hunt: The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case, the Criminal Justice franchise, the Scam franchise, Rudra: The Edge of Darkness, Mithya, Undekhi and others that have gone on to win acclaim and applause. Applause has partnered with leading platforms like Netflix, JioHotstar, Amazon Prime Video, Sony LIV and ZEE5 for its creative output. 

Expanding its creative canvas, Applause has ventured into theatrical films and documentaries and has recently launched its dedicated kid’s animation channel, ‘ApplaToon’, exclusively on YouTube. The studio has exciting content in the pipeline that includes an ambitious Mahatma Gandhi biopic series, South cinema and a big movie slate. 

Jeffrey Archer has topped the bestseller lists around the world, with sales of over 300 million copies in 115 countries and 49 languages. He is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction 19 times, short stories (four times) and non-fiction. He gained a Blue in Athletics at Oxford, was President of the University Athletics Club, and went on to run the 100 yards in 9.6 seconds for Great Britain in 1966. 

Jeffrey served five years in the House of Commons and thirty-one years as a Member of the House of Lords.  His latest novel, End Game, is the eighth of the William Warwick novels and will be published on September 23. Jeffrey is also an art collector and amateur auctioneer, conducting around 10 charity auctions a year, and has raised over £51m in the last 30 years for good causes.  He is married to Dame Mary Archer DBE, former Chair of Cambridge University Hospitals and the Science Museum Group. They have two sons, two granddaughters and three grandsons.

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