EXCLUSIVE: After hitting top spot in 17 territories last month, a second season of Prime Video India’s gambling crime drama Matka King was odds-on, and the Amazon streamer has now played its hand.

The Vijay Varma -starring series has been commissioned for Season 2 after the first run became the service’s most-watched new Indian scripted show of the past two years.

Set against the fast-changing backdrop of 1960s Bombay (now Mumbai), the series follows Varma as humble cotton trader Brij Bhatti, who transforms into an illegal gambling kingpin after starting a ‘Matka’ game that takes the city by storm and democratizes a terrain previously reserved for the rich and elite. As the game grows, Brij begins to change his morals as power, money and ambition take a hold.

No word on the second run’s plot, but Prime Video said in a statement: “The game of Matka is far from over, and neither is Brij Bhatti’s reign.…