Sacred Games : Netflix
Sacred Games is the premiere Hindi Netflix series in India. Produced by Phantom production who are known to invest in edgy stories.Based on the 1000 page Vikram Chandra novel by the same name. The story is, for the large part, set in Bombay/ Mumbai and revolves around the lives of Ganesh Gaitonde played by Nawzuddin Siddiqui, a peculiar O.G, and Sartaj Singh played by Saif Ali Khan, a low rank moral police officer stuck in an amoral department. The show runs parallel stories of the past of Gaitonde and present of Satraj. As it is set in Mumbai themes of gangs, corruption, Bollywood conspiracies, drugs, crime, immigration, Muslim ghettoisation, communalism and Indian post liberalisation politics plants a foot of the show in reality yet as the name suggests the show also has a Indian mythical bent. Where each title, story telling and apoclaiptic plot has a theological aspect to it.Season 1 released in 2018 has been critically and popularly appreciated for its thriller element, cool dia...