Sacred Games · Season 1 · Netflix
Sacred Games Season 1
Sacred Games Season 1 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 8.8/10. 8 episodes on Netflix from 6 July 2018.
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Sacred Games Season 1, released globally in July 2018, became the first Indian Netflix original to break into serious international critical conversation. Directed by Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane, adapted from Vikram Chandra's doorstop novel, the eight-episode run braids a Mumbai cop procedural with a gangster's long confessional into something that felt categorically new for Indian prestige television. Nawazuddin Siddiqui's Ganesh Gaitonde is built for the ages: funny, monstrous, and deeply specific to a particular Indian masculine tradition. The season hit 92% on Rotten Tomatoes from 26 critics, earned an IMDb rating of 8.7, and was later named the only Indian series on the New York Times' Best International TV of the Decade list. The threshold for what Indian streaming could look like changed on release day.
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The Room
“Bollywood maximalism meets downbeat Euro noir meets Hollywood gangster epic -- mesmerizing and addictive.”
Vogue (Taylor Antrim)“There are clear flaws, but there's something riveting about India's bleaker, darker heart being exposed as opposed to some upbeat, colorful explosion of dance scenes.”
Hollywood Reporter (Tim Goodman)