Mumbai: Music and entertainment company Mirchi has launched its new show "Mirchi Sunday Suspense Hindi." The radio show presents dramatic readings from Indian literature across suspense, crime, horror genres and it airs every Sunday between 3 p.m and 4 p.m on Radio Mirchi.

The forty-minute-long show will be aired in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, North Bengaluru, and Mangalore, as well as in international markets including UAE and the USA. It will also be available to stream on Spotify, along with two other Mirchi IPs - "Sunday Suspense Bangla" and "Calling Karan: Season 1 and 2," said the company in a statement.

The show features famous stories by celebrated authors namely, Satyajit Ray, Conan Doyle, and Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, bringing to life their works through a play of sounds, music, and background scores, it added.

“The launch of Sunday Suspense is an effort in this direction whereby we are not only launching fresh formats on the radio but also providing some nail-biting, dramatised renditions of horror and crime stories from Indian literature," said Entertainment Network India Ltd executive president Nandan Srinath. "The popularity of Sunday Suspense Bangla strengthens our confidence in this new show and we are looking forward to our listeners’ response to it. We are also happy to have partnered with Spotify as this will enable our discerning consumers to access our content 24*7."

Listeners can catch repeats of "Mirchi Sunday Suspense Hindi" every following Wednesday post-midnight or Saturday at 11 a.m.