Sacred Games Season 1 – A Quick Recap Before Season 2
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Sacred Games was a revelation in Indian entertainment history. The first of its kind Netflix Original Series made in India. By Indians for an Indian audience. A rather niche, urban Indian audience at that.
Sacred games came to be after Erik Barmack, the vice president of Netflix, approached Vikramaditya Motwane to create Indian content for the platform. They settled on Sacred Games, a novel by Vikram Chandra. Content made in the Indian language with the best Indian directors, writers, producers, cast and crew.
Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane created a world of terror, chutzpah and brilliance. Something we thought would be just another procedural gangster show, turned out to be so much more. Especially that finale when it connected to the very first episode. Brilliance of overarching story lines.
Sacred Games Season 1 – The characters
Of all the wonderful things about the show, it was its characters that made it truly special. The music was magical. It transformed us into this world of make believe where all of this.
Sartaj Singh
At the start of the season Sartaj Singh was just a troubled overweight police officer in the Mumbai Police Force. We see him as he seeks acceptance and appreciation from a police force that he in reality loathes for its rampant corruption. The first season is mostly about him losing in the present. His family, his compadre- Katekar, his respect and if that wasn’t enough, even his little finger.
Gaitonde
“Kabhi Kabhi toh lagta hai, main hi bhagwaan hu.”
That man, that line, immortalized. Ganesh Eknath Gaitonde is no ordinary man. He is a child at heart, monster too; a gangster and a godsend; a living God and the devil incarnate. We see him as he transverses through his entire life. Realizing by the end how he was played for over twenty years.
Nawazuddin has given an incredible performance here reminiscent of some harrowingly fleshed out villains of old. Gaitonde might have died in the very first episode (I warned you about the spoilers) but his aura lives on. His story runs back and forth from the past, connected in deep red to the threads of the present; some his own creation, some the work of lesser beings.
Gaitonde realizes that he was just another puppet working through the grand machinations of the ‘third baap’, the reverential Guruji. Season 2 will show us the full scope of the events as JoJo said at the very beginning. Gaitonde was played, it is time we know how.
The Others Or Rather The Dead Ones
Radhika Apte’s Anjali Mathur was incredible. But her span on the show, short lived. Mathur helped uncover the threads connecting Sartaj, his father and Gaitonde. Her character is being overhauled by two analysts in the upcoming season who will hopefully drive the series to a more intense season.
Bunty, our lord, our savior, the one with the fascination of umbrellas. Sadly, it wasn’t enough for him to just be paralyzed. He had to die too. Bunty will surely be missed. Katekar, the diminutive constable changed the way we see policemen. Dedicated when required and as useless as a bad penny on a needful day. Luke Kenny’s nameless assassin might just make a return but that remains to e seem. He was last seen running way after separating a finger from a hand, Sartaj Singh’s.
Sacred Games Season 2 – What Should We Expect?
Neeraj Ghaywan has joined the crew and is slated to co-direct with Anurag Kashyap. The show is expected to pick up from right where it ended and cover more of Gaitonde’s twenty years long tryst with the city before his death.
What is Guruji’s deal? What is this ultra-hindu theory that he has put in motion?
Why was Tiwari in the nuclear bunker with all that food and water?
What happens to the union minister now? Is it a religious war brewing or is something entirely different going to come to the fore?
Honestly, the show stopped at a cliffhanger with fourteen days left. What happens in twenty five days can only be found when Netflix stops acting like a little kid who knows a secret and just drops the damn release date!
