The amorality of Sacred Games: How Netflix's series reflects hallmarks of Anurag Kashyap’s films
6 years, 5 months ago

The amorality of Sacred Games: How Netflix's series reflects hallmarks of Anurag Kashyap’s films

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Sacred Games is attractive as entertainment because it confirms people in their facile sense that they did right in attending only to themselves — since the world itself is beyond repair or redemption. Read on Firstpost: Netflix’s Sacred Games gets these five things wrong, when compared to Vikram Chandra’s book The remaining episodes are arranged as a countdown to the apocalypse – 26, 25, 24, etc. As in Kashyap’s earlier films, Sacred Games shows us alleyways and corners in the dingiest parts of Mumbai and what makes it saleable to a respectable clientele is the ‘grime tourism’ it has on offer. There is a creative ‘truth’ in the comparison and it is creative acts like these that are sorely lacking in the violence Sacred Games shows us, which is monotonously flatfooted. The amorality of Sacred Games, its lack of a social vision has been the hallmarks of Kashyap’s films and the eagerness with which these portrayals are lapped up by proper folk merits some speculation.

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Nawazuddin Siddiqui confirms no third season for Netflix's Sacred Games: 'Nothing's left to say anymore'
2 years, 11 months ago

Nawazuddin Siddiqui confirms no third season for Netflix's Sacred Games: 'Nothing's left to say anymore'

Firstpost  

Nawazuddin Siddiqui reflects back on Sacred Games: “Whatever had to be said from the original novel has already been said" It is admirable that Anurag Kashyap has so bravely stood up against speculation about a third season of Netflix’s monstrously longevous series Sacred Games. Nawazuddin Siddiqui who acquired a new level of fame with Sacred Games, also admitted in a …

Anurag Kashyap refutes rumours of Sacred Games 3, calls out ‘scamster’: ‘I’m filing FIR’
2 years, 11 months ago

Anurag Kashyap refutes rumours of Sacred Games 3, calls out ‘scamster’: ‘I’m filing FIR’

Hindustan Times  

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap on Sunday shared an post calling out a 'scamster', who posted about a fake casting call for another season of the show Sacred Games. Anurag Kashyap has refuted rumours of another season of Sacred Games. Anurag Kashyap dismissed the post about a possible Sacred Games 3 and said that no such show is in the works. Sacred …

On Anurag Kashyap’s birthday, how he continues to topple expectations and push boundaries
5 years, 4 months ago

On Anurag Kashyap’s birthday, how he continues to topple expectations and push boundaries

Hindustan Times  

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap turns 47 on Tuesday, September 10. He is at the peak of his powers professionally, and as promised, has gone underground post the release of his latest work, the second season of Netflix’s Sacred Games. In the last couple of years alone, he has released two feature films, one short film as part of the Lust Stories …

Varun Grover on adapting Sacred Games, and why pro-establishment comedy is against Indian culture
5 years, 4 months ago

Varun Grover on adapting Sacred Games, and why pro-establishment comedy is against Indian culture

Firstpost  

Meeting Varun Grover is like encountering a sea of calm, devoid of commotion. Four years ago, Neeraj Ghaywan’s Masaan — a film Varun Grover had written — also dealt with two tracks, involving Richa Chadha and Vicky Kaushal’s characters in Varanasi and Allahabad respectively. If we hadn’t had an editor like Nitin Baid in Masaan or Aarti Bajaj in Sacred …

Sacred Games writer Varun Grover on that lynching scene, and if he would retain the Rajiv Gandhi line in hindsight
5 years, 4 months ago

Sacred Games writer Varun Grover on that lynching scene, and if he would retain the Rajiv Gandhi line in hindsight

Hindustan Times  

Sacred Games lead writer Varun Grover has said that he was ‘quite prepared’ for the divisive reaction to the second season of the popular Netflix show, but not because ‘it is more ambitious and has more complex ideas’ than season one. Grover told Hindustan Times that because Sacred Games is a show and not a theatrical film, ‘it will survive …

Sacred Games fans can’t get over that ‘Guruji ka pyaar bhi mila’ scene, post shocked reactions on Twitter
5 years, 4 months ago

Sacred Games fans can’t get over that ‘Guruji ka pyaar bhi mila’ scene, post shocked reactions on Twitter

Hindustan Times  

Now that fans have had a day to binge the second season of Netflix’s Sacred Games, reactions are flooding in. Needless to say, this story contains spoilers for Sacred Games season two, so proceed only if you’ve seen the episodes, or don’t care about having one, very surprising scene spoiled. “After watching Sacred Games 2, ‘Guruji ka pyaar’ will have …

Sacred Games season 2 review: Netflix's haphazard thriller takes on terrifying socio-political relevance
5 years, 4 months ago

Sacred Games season 2 review: Netflix's haphazard thriller takes on terrifying socio-political relevance

Firstpost  

There can be no bigger crime than reducing Netflix’s Sacred Games to a gangster drama. There can be no bigger crime than reducing Netflix’s Sacred Games, based on Vikram Chandra’s 1000 page book, to a gangster drama. He follows many leads, which brings him face-to-face with several revelations — including a Mumbai-based terrorist organisation making maps of India without Kashmir, …

Anurag Kashyap, Neeraj Ghaywan on directing Sacred Games 2, and why Netflix Original will get more riveting now
5 years, 5 months ago

Anurag Kashyap, Neeraj Ghaywan on directing Sacred Games 2, and why Netflix Original will get more riveting now

Firstpost  

When the second season of Netflix India’s popular series Sacred Games drops online on 15 August, we will see Saif Ali Khan as Inspector Sartaj Singh and Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Ganesh Gaitonde returning, along with new cast members, Kalki Koechlin and Ranvir Shorey. While Anurag Kashyap continues to narrate gangster Gaitonde’s story, Masaan director Neeraj Ghaywan, has stepped in to …

Sacred Games’ story will end after season 2, but ‘should things go on we’ll make things up,’ says Vikramaditya Motwane
5 years, 5 months ago

Sacred Games’ story will end after season 2, but ‘should things go on we’ll make things up,’ says Vikramaditya Motwane

Hindustan Times  

At the end of the second season of Netflix’s Sacred Games, showrunner Vikramaditya Motwane will be faced with the same problem that David Benioff and DB Weiss were confronted by on Game of Thrones. Actor Saif Ali Khan, who plays the cop Sartaj Singh in Sacred Games, had said in an earlier interview that he isn’t sure about where the …

Sacred Games season 2 stakes seem higher as Netflix invests heavily in India with Mowgli, Narcos: Mexico
6 years, 1 month ago

Sacred Games season 2 stakes seem higher as Netflix invests heavily in India with Mowgli, Narcos: Mexico

Firstpost  

Netflix may well be responsible for how Indians consume content now. A few years from its launch, it was only justified that Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games grew to be such a phenomenon via Netflix’s quality treatment. The provider stressed on its need to tap into local stories with a global appeal, something Erik Barmack, vice-president of global content at Netflix, …

Good news! Sacred Games to get season 2, announces Netflix
6 years, 3 months ago

Good news! Sacred Games to get season 2, announces Netflix

India TV News  

For those who loved Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui-starrer web series Sacred Games, there’s a new better than the most you’re going to hear today. Video-streaming platform Netflix has official given a green signal to hit series Sacred Games for a second season. For the second season, Kashyap will continue to direct the story of Siddiqui's Gaitonde, while Motwane …

Sacred Games Controversy: Anurag Kashyap does a 'yay' on Rahul Gandhi's comment
6 years, 6 months ago

Sacred Games Controversy: Anurag Kashyap does a 'yay' on Rahul Gandhi's comment

India TV News  

Anurag Kashyap has appreciated Congress President Rahul Gandhi's comment on the freedom of expression as a fundamental democratic right, in the context of the filmmaker's web show "Sacred Games". Netflix's "Sacred Games", produced by the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Entertainment's Phantom Films joint venture, is facing a legal petition over the removal of certain content from the web series on the …

Sacred Games' parallel narrative format is ideal concoction of Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane's energies
6 years, 6 months ago

Sacred Games' parallel narrative format is ideal concoction of Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane's energies

Firstpost  

Last month, Anurag Kashyap reunited with three filmmakers, with different sensibilities, for Netflix’s anthology Lust Stories. Both Motwane and Kashyap have been credited as directors of Sacred Games, based on Vikram Chandra’s 2006 book of the same name. On the other hand, Motwane admits Sacred Games has been a challenge for him as it is a very different Bombay movie …

Netflix's Sacred Games leaked on piracy site Tamil Rockers a week after its premiere
6 years, 6 months ago

Netflix's Sacred Games leaked on piracy site Tamil Rockers a week after its premiere

India Today  

Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer Sacred Games has fallen prey to privacy nearly a week after its premiere. The eight-episode series, co-directed by Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane, has been leaked on Tamil Rockers, a piracy site where Rajinikant's Kaala was also leaked. The New York Times notes how, for starters, Netflix has chosen a production from the …

Sacred Games: From Aswatthama to Yayati, decoding the meaning behind every episode in season one
6 years, 6 months ago

Sacred Games: From Aswatthama to Yayati, decoding the meaning behind every episode in season one

Firstpost  

Netflix’s first Indian original series Sacred Games is a truly groundbreaking show in the context of Indian shows and television programs. In the second episode, Saif Ali Khan’s Sartaj heeds Gaitonde’s warning, starts an investigation, and unravels an international espionage. Episode 4, Brahmahatya Brahmahatya means ‘killing of a Brahmin.’ Gaitonde, who has very strong Brahmin roots, commits crimes which are …

Confused by Sacred Games’ use of Hindu mythology? Let’s decode episode titles
6 years, 6 months ago

Confused by Sacred Games’ use of Hindu mythology? Let’s decode episode titles

Hindustan Times  

Now that Netflix’s first Indian original series, Sacred Games, is almost a week old, fans have had a chance to absorb and appreciate all the tiny details showrunner Vikramaditya Motwane and his team have squeezed into the sprawling crime epic. “Aswatthama was cursed with immortality after Kurukshetra war,” the post says, but “Gaitonde commits suicide but his story remains alive.” …

Netflix's Sacred Games gets these five things wrong, when compared to Vikram Chandra's book
6 years, 6 months ago

Netflix's Sacred Games gets these five things wrong, when compared to Vikram Chandra's book

Firstpost  

For the past couple of days, every other post on Facebook or Twitter has been about how “brilliant” Netflix’s Sacred Games is. While I agree that the show has indeed broken new ground in terms of production values for Indian “web” shows, it’s far from perfect — especially when you compare it to the book. Here are five ways the …

Is Sacred Games really Netflix’s new Narcos? Here’s what foreign media is saying
6 years, 6 months ago

Is Sacred Games really Netflix’s new Narcos? Here’s what foreign media is saying

Hindustan Times  

Netflix’s first Indian original series, Sacred Games, was released in nearly 200 countries and close to 130 million subscribers on Friday, and the response so far has been enthusiastic. The Hollywood Reporter’s review said, “Sacred Games is filled with those aforementioned storytelling quirks that viewers will likely just go with as they are distracted by the enticingly foreign elements that …

Sacred Games: Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer is garnering positive reviews worldwide
6 years, 6 months ago

Sacred Games: Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer is garnering positive reviews worldwide

India Today  

Energetic, entertaining and replete with uncompromising performances. If international reviews of Sacred Games are anything to go by, the Mumbai-set drama on India's dark underworld has given Netflix a "strong start" for its local content in the country. Netflix's maiden original Indian mini-series, Sacred Games is produced by the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Entertainment's Phantom Films joint venture, and directed by …

Netflix’s Sacred Games wades into political row, here’s what Twitter’s saying
6 years, 6 months ago

Netflix’s Sacred Games wades into political row, here’s what Twitter’s saying

Firstpost  

At some level, I feel Anurag Kashyap already anticipated this happening. A member of their party, Rajeev Kumar Sinha, has filed an official complaint against Netflix, Sacred Games, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and others for allegedly insulting late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. — Mayukh Ranjan Ghosh July 10, 2018 After renaming all the airports, stadiums, hospitals, etc etc after Rajiv Gandhi, a …

Sacred Games international review round-up: A 'fresh, addictive thriller' riddled with 'story cliches'
6 years, 6 months ago

Sacred Games international review round-up: A 'fresh, addictive thriller' riddled with 'story cliches'

Firstpost  

“There are clear flaws to Sacred Games but there’s also something riveting about India’s bleaker, darker heart being exposed as opposed to some upbeat, colorful explosion of dance scenes,” says The Hollywood Reporter. Based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Vikram Chandra, Netflix India’s maiden Original, Sacred Games, starring Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Radhika Apte, …

Sacred Games: Saif Ali Khan on playing a troubled cop, and why the series could work globally
6 years, 6 months ago

Sacred Games: Saif Ali Khan on playing a troubled cop, and why the series could work globally

Firstpost  

*** I distinctly remember the moment when a movie theatre full of people saw the first glimpse of Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui from Sacred Games. But there’s also a short story that Vikram Chandra wrote called ‘Love and Longing in Bombay’, where you are properly introduced to Sartaj,” he explains. To translate them on screen requires a very …

Sacred Games review: Netflix crime thriller engages viewers with intrigue and mystery
6 years, 6 months ago

Sacred Games review: Netflix crime thriller engages viewers with intrigue and mystery

India Today  

"You can't get away so easily Sartaj ji. However, his words also holds true to the viewers who can't get away after watching just one episode. The gripping and engaging crime thriller directed by Vikramaditya Motawani and Anurag Kashyap will get you so hooked that one can't help but come back to unravel the mystery. The crime thriller based on …

Radhika, Nawazuddin open up on Sacred Games, reveal why digital holds edge over films
6 years, 6 months ago

Radhika, Nawazuddin open up on Sacred Games, reveal why digital holds edge over films

Deccan Chronicle  

They are similar in more ways than one. Actors Radhika Apte and Nawazuddin Siddiqui share a common love for the unconventional, and it’s reflective in their body of work. BOX OFFICE IS NOT AN ACTOR’S HEADACHE: A digress from mainstream cinema is a risk worth taking, believes Radhika Apte.”The job is the same. A digital medium eases you of that …

Sacred Games review: Netflix sets an impossibly high benchmark with this gritty, quintessential Mumbai noir tale
6 years, 6 months ago

Sacred Games review: Netflix sets an impossibly high benchmark with this gritty, quintessential Mumbai noir tale

Firstpost  

Four episodes in, and I can already tell Sacred Games is going to be a game-changer. *Spoiler alert* Through the four episodes that I’ve seen of the eight-part first season of Sacred Games, it isn’t clear why Gaitonde decides he’s going to let Sartaj in on his final plans. Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane give us a layered, stimulating adaptation …

Sacred Games review: Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Netflix show the world what India is capable of
6 years, 6 months ago

Sacred Games review: Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Netflix show the world what India is capable of

Hindustan Times  

Sacred Games Cast - Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Radhika Apte, Neeraj Kabi, Aamir Bashir, Pankaj Tripathi Rating - 4/5 Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui fight for the soul of Mumbai in Netflix’s Sacred Games. He had seen murder, he had lost a friend, and most wrenchingly, he had witnessed defeat; and yet with the faintest whiff of optimism …

Sacred Games: Anurag Kashyap on working with Netflix and his 'street cred' as a director of dark, intense films
6 years, 6 months ago

Sacred Games: Anurag Kashyap on working with Netflix and his 'street cred' as a director of dark, intense films

Firstpost  

*** Anurag Kashyap says he is a man of action, not discussion. I’m a hired director,” says Kashyap with a smile that indicates he is both pleased and humbled at the prospect of being part of this project. “Even when we aren’t ‘working’, we are working together,” says the director about the relationship he shares with the actor. “Even though …

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