Original series Sacred Games gets a positive response from the audience
On Friday, the global streaming service Netflix premiered its first Indian original thriller series, Sacred Games, directed by Vikramaditya Motwane and Anurag Kashyap. The gritty crime drama is based on Vikram Chandra’s novel and stars Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Radhika Apte. The eightepisode series, produced by Anil D Ambani-led Reliance Entertainment’s Phantom Films, is already being appreciated by the audience.
Talking about the collaboration, Amitabh Jhunjhunwala, Vice Chairman of Reliance Entertainment, says, “We are privileged to partner with Netflix in launching their first ever original Indian mini-series. The streaming platform has demolished physical boundaries across the globe, and we are delighted to showcase Indian creative talent to their everincreasing worldwide viewership base through the creative genius of our partners, Vikramaditya Motwane and Anurag Kashyap of Phantom Films.” Erik Barmack, Vice President of international original series at Netflix, shares, “We are delighted with our partnership with Reliance Entertainment’s Phantom Films, to bring Vikram Chandra’s epic novel to life in our first Indian original series. We know that the more incredibly authentically local our shows are, the more people around the world will discover and love them. We are thrilled to work with some of the world’s best talent, writers, producers and directors to bring great stories to life for India and the world.”
Sacred Games is set in Mumbai, the metropolis, which has been a muse for the director duo of Motwane and Kashyap, and is their ultimate ode to the city. Says Anurag Kashyap, “The series is actually the story of how Bombay became Mumbai. When you watch it, you will get a sense of the city, where it came from and where it is today.” On his part, Motwane adds, “In the early stages of scripting, we took a call to set the series in the present, unlike the book, which is set at the dawn of the new millennium.”
Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in
Sacred Games
Vikramaditya Motwane adds, “This choice, along with the liberty we took to push the boundaries on a streaming platform as filmmakers without the shackles of censorship, has enabled us to provide a hard dose of reality and a layer of pulsating urgency to the entire narrative.”
Spread across eight one-hour episodes in Season One, the series follows Inspector Sartaj Singh’s pursuit of the most-wanted gangster, Ganesh Gaitonde, and an expose on the nexus between the underworld, police, politicians and Bollywood. When Singh receives an anonymous tip-off on the whereabouts of Gaitonde, a notorious crime lord who has been missing for 16 years, it sets the wheels in motion for a chain of events that unearths India’s dark underworld. Sacred Games will be streamed by Netflix not just in India, but across 190 countries, in all major markets in Asia, US, Latin America and Europe.
Saif Ali Khan and Radhika Apte in the series
On Friday, the global streaming service Netflix premiered its first Indian original thriller series, Sacred Games, directed by Vikramaditya Motwane and Anurag Kashyap. The gritty crime drama is based on Vikram Chandra’s novel and stars Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Radhika Apte. The eightepisode series, produced by Anil D Ambani-led Reliance Entertainment’s Phantom Films, is already being appreciated by the audience.
Talking about the collaboration, Amitabh Jhunjhunwala, Vice Chairman of Reliance Entertainment, says, “We are privileged to partner with Netflix in launching their first ever original Indian mini-series. The streaming platform has demolished physical boundaries across the globe, and we are delighted to showcase Indian creative talent to their everincreasing worldwide viewership base through the creative genius of our partners, Vikramaditya Motwane and Anurag Kashyap of Phantom Films.” Erik Barmack, Vice President of international original series at Netflix, shares, “We are delighted with our partnership with Reliance Entertainment’s Phantom Films, to bring Vikram Chandra’s epic novel to life in our first Indian original series. We know that the more incredibly authentically local our shows are, the more people around the world will discover and love them. We are thrilled to work with some of the world’s best talent, writers, producers and directors to bring great stories to life for India and the world.”
Sacred Games is set in Mumbai, the metropolis, which has been a muse for the director duo of Motwane and Kashyap, and is their ultimate ode to the city. Says Anurag Kashyap, “The series is actually the story of how Bombay became Mumbai. When you watch it, you will get a sense of the city, where it came from and where it is today.” On his part, Motwane adds, “In the early stages of scripting, we took a call to set the series in the present, unlike the book, which is set at the dawn of the new millennium.”
Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in
Sacred Games
Vikramaditya Motwane adds, “This choice, along with the liberty we took to push the boundaries on a streaming platform as filmmakers without the shackles of censorship, has enabled us to provide a hard dose of reality and a layer of pulsating urgency to the entire narrative.”
Spread across eight one-hour episodes in Season One, the series follows Inspector Sartaj Singh’s pursuit of the most-wanted gangster, Ganesh Gaitonde, and an expose on the nexus between the underworld, police, politicians and Bollywood. When Singh receives an anonymous tip-off on the whereabouts of Gaitonde, a notorious crime lord who has been missing for 16 years, it sets the wheels in motion for a chain of events that unearths India’s dark underworld. Sacred Games will be streamed by Netflix not just in India, but across 190 countries, in all major markets in Asia, US, Latin America and Europe.
Saif Ali Khan and Radhika Apte in the series
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