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Kelly Luegenbiehl, Erik Barmack and Motwane were the series' executive producers. The series follows Sartaj Singh (Saif Ali Khan), a troubled police officer in Mumbai who receives a phone call from gangster Ganesh Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), warning him to save the city within 25 days.
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Sartaj Singh is a troubled police inspector in Mumbai police, living on sleeping pills and seeking validation from a police force he nevertheless loathes for its corruption. He receives an anonymous phone call from Ganesh Gaitonde, a notorious crime lord who has been missing for 16 years. He tells Singh to save the city in 25 days, which initiates ...
Main
1. Saif Ali Khanas Inspector Sartaj Singh 2. Nawazuddin Siddiquias Ganesh Gaitonde 3. Radhika Apteas Anjali Mathur (season 1)
Recurring
Template:Div col 1. Neeraj Kabi as DCPParulkar 2. Jatin Sarnaas Deepak "Bunty" Shinde 3. Kubra Saitas Kukoo 4. Jitendra Joshias Constable Katekar 5. Rajshri Deshpandeas Subhadra 6. Luke Kennyas Malcolm Mourad 7. Elnaaz Norouzias Zoya Mirza/Jamila 8. Pankaj Tripathias Khanna Guru Ji 9. Aamir Bashiras Inspector Majid Ali Khan 10. Geetanjali Thapaas Nayanika Sehgal 11. Shalini Vatsaas Kanta Bai 12. Surveen Chawlaas Jojo Mascarenas 13. Girish Kulkarnias Bipin Bhosale 14. Anupriya Goenkaas Megha S...
Development
Erik Barmack, the vice president of Netflix, came across Vikram Chandra's 2006 crime novel, Sacred Games, while they were searching for content for Indian and the global audience. He called it "an interesting property" and decided to adapt it in Indian language. They decided to approach Phantom Films while looking for director and producer for the series. In 2014, writer-director Vikramaditya Motwane met the team of Netflix during his visit to Los Angeles. Motwane had read Chandra's earlier n...
Casting and characters
Several characters in the series speak different Indian languages like Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi and Gujarati. Kashyap mentioned that it gives a "real sense of what India is". Saif Ali Khan called the series an experiment and said he agreed to do it because "people are willing to watch programmes from other countries with sub-titles because good stories transcend boundaries." Khan found an "interesting arc" in the character of Sartaj Singh and called it "troubled and honest". He said that he re...
Filming
Motwane started filming in September 2017. Kashyap started filming the series after the completion of Mukkabaaz and finished shooting in January 2018. Both Motwane and Kashyap shot the series separately; Motwane directed the present-day scenes with Khan and Kashyap filmed the Bombay of the 1980s with Siddiqui. Motwane called the exercise of shooting individually an "experiment". Kashyap said it was "painfully difficult" to find the "pockets of Bombay which has kept itself like it is". Chandra...
Sacred Games is the first Netflix original series from India. In February, 2018, Netflix announced three new series, along with four others, making a total of seven series coming out of India. The first look of the main three characters: Singh, Gaitonde and Mathur were released by Netflix on 23 February 2018. It had individual stills of a blood spa...
Upon release, the series garnered positive reviews from critics, with praise to the performances. The show holds a 90% certified fresh rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 20 reviews, with an average rating of 6.62 out of 10. The critical consensus reads: "Gorgeous, grim, and unexpected, Sacred Gamesis saved from its pro...
Sacred Games won the Best Drama Award at the News18 iReel Awards. It won five awards from 11 nominations including Best Actor (Drama) for Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Best Supporting Actor for Jitendra Joshi, Best Writing (Drama), Best Ensemble Cast, and Best Series (Drama).Kashyap won the Best Direction (fiction) Award while Aarti Bajaj won the Award for ...
Directed by Vikramaditya Motwane and Anurag Kashyap, and produced by Phantom Films, the series has been given an 18+ rating. Here is the list of the cast and crew of the first and second seasons of the series: Season 1. Saif Ali Khan. As: Sartaj Singh. Role: Inspector. Nawazuddin Siddiqui. As: Ganesh Eknath Gaitonde. Role: Mumbai based gangster.
Ganesh Gaitonde (1959-2017) (Played By Nawazuddin Siddiqui) was an Indian gangster and is the main Protagonist of this show along with Sartaj Singh. He was the rival don of Suleiman Isa.
Jul 10, 2018 · Based on author Vikram Chandra’s epic magnum opus, the story primarily revolves around an earnest, yet unsuccessful cop Sartaj Singh (played by Saif Ali Khan) and notorious gangster Ganesh Gaitonde (played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui), and their trials and tribulations with the city of Mumbai.
Jul 4, 2018 · The book, drenched in Mumbai’s politics – gangsters, the police and the film world – has an epic scale, neat storylines, is driven by plot and is replete with endearing characters – primary among...
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Jul 4, 2018 · Spread across eight one-hour episodes in season one, the series follows Inspector Sartaj Singh and most-wanted gangster Ganesh Gaitonde to expose the nexus between the underworld, police,...
