

India’s first Netflix original series, it was produced and directed by Vikramaditya Motwane and Anurag Kashyap as Phantom Films. Kelly Luegenbiehl, Erik Barmack and Motwane were the series' executive producers.Sacred Games is an Indian crime thriller web series based on Vikram Chandra’s 2006 novel of the same name. The novel was adapted by Varun Grover, Smita Singh, and Vasant Nath.
Other cast members include Radhika Apte, Girish Kulkarni, Neeraj Kabi, Jeetendra Joshi, Rajshri Deshpande, Karan Wahi, Sukhmani Sadana, Aamir Bashir, Jatin Sarna, Elnaaz Norouzi, Pankaj Tripathi, Amey Wagh, Kubbra Sait, Surveen Chawla, Kalki Koechlin, Ranvir Shorey and Amruta Subhash.Sacred Games began development after Netflix vice-president Erik Barmack asked Motwane in 2014 to create Indian content for the platform. Picking up from the nail-biting.Sartaj Singh ( Saif Ali Khan) is a troubled police officer in Mumbai who receives a phone call from gangster Ganesh Gaitonde ( Nawazuddin Siddiqui), who tells him to save the city within 25 days the series chronicles the events which follow. Sacred Games Season 1 Teaser and Trailer,Sacred Games Season 2 the second part of the most-awaited show in recent times is back on Netflix on August 15, 2019.
In the second season, Motwane reduced his involvement to showrunner and was replaced as director by Neeraj Ghaywan. Swapnil Sonawane was director of photography for Motwane Sylvester Fonseca and Aseem Bajaj filmed the scenes directed by Kashyap. After a script was completed, Motwane asked Kashyap to co-direct Motwane directed the scenes with Singh, and Kashyap directed Gaitonde's scenes.
The second season premiered on 15 August 2019. It received mainly positive reviews from critics, with particular praise for its performances and writing. The series is subtitled in over 20 languages.
On his journey, Sartaj is helped by Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) officer Anjali Mathur flashbacks detail Gaitonde's origins, and how he became Mumbai's crime lord. He tells Sartaj to save the city in 25 days, beginning a chain of events that burrows deep into India's underworld. He receives a phone call from Ganesh Gaitonde, a notorious crime lord who has been missing for 16 years. Siddiqui has said that there will not be a third season.Sartaj Singh is a troubled Mumbai Police inspector who seeks validation from a police force he hates for its corruption.
Also explored is how Gaitonde was deployed in Kenya by Kusum Devi Yadav – a RAW officer who tries to keep Gaitonde's archenemy Suleiman Isa alive so she can capture and kill Shahid Khan, a dangerous extremist who turns out to be Sartaj's cousin and harbors a plan (with the ashram) to wipe out India.Main article: List of Sacred Games episodes SeriesNetflix vice-president Erik Barmack came across Sacred Games, Vikram Chandra's 2006 crime novel, while the service was searching for Indian content for a global audience. Gaitonde's meeting with Khanna Guruji, how he became part of the ashram, and his activities with them are depicted in flashbacks. Sartaj discovers an ashram to which his father once belonged, and learns about their apocalyptic plans to create a new, conflict-free world. In season two, Gaitonde's story continues in flashbacks while Sartaj tries to find answers.
Motwane said that the best thing for him was that Netflix wanted to produce the series in Hindi, rather than English: "Speaking in English can seem so fake at times." He started working on the adaptation with writer Varun Grover, calling the writing process the "biggest challenge". After the meeting, he read Sacred Games and thought it was "great". Motwane had read Chandra's earlier novel, Love and Longing in Bombay, which introduces the character of Sartaj Singh. In 2014, Netflix approached Phantom Films to produce a series writer-director Vikramaditya Motwane met their team during a visit to Los Angeles.
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Motwane and his writers gave the scripts to Chandra for feedback: "Chandra is so research-intensive that we didn't have to approach another researcher, we just had to ask him questions." The series was written by Grover, Smita Singh, and Vasant Nath. Kashyap declined, since he did not want to do "anything based in India in English". In 2014, he was approached by AMC and Scott Free Productions to direct an English-language adaptation of the novel. Kashyap said that he "gobbled" up the opportunity as the novel had fascinated him.
Its episode titles were inspired by Hindu mythology. Sacred Games is Netflix' first Indian original series. Nath said that in the beginning of the writing process, they were "chucking away some important characters from the original, and bringing in new ones". The series' script was completed in a year. Research was directed by Smita Nair and Mantra Watsa, who summarised every chapter and made the "complex plot easily accessible" to the writers.
Aatapi and Vatapi were two demons who tricked people with their nice behavior and killed them. "Halahala", the second episode, was named after a poison created from the churning of the sea. In the series, Gaitonde calls himself immortal (like Ashwatthama) before he commits suicide.
In this episode, Katekar is killed and Sartaj cremates him. "Pretakalpa" refers to a Hindu text read at a funeral. " Sarama" refers to as a dog. In that episode, the Hindu Gaitonde agrees to attract Muslim votes for the Hindu politician Bhosale.
Yayati was a king who was cursed with premature old age. Gaitonde's wife Subhadra is killed in this episode, and he takes revenge by murdering her killers.
