Soon after its entry in the Indian entertainment realm in 2016, Netflix had announced its first original series in the country based on Vikram Chandra’s book Sacred Games.
It has now announced via Twitter that Saif Ali Khan will play the lead in the series.
Anurag Kashyap’s production house Phantom House has also been roped in to produce the series which will be directed by Kashyap. Based on the eponymous novel, Sacred Games will be an exploration of Mumbai’s underbelly infested with delinquents, corruption, fierce criminals and sexual escapades.
The series will be shot on location in India and will be produced by a Netflix and Phantom House partnership. Despite being bilingual (Hindi and English), it will be released globally.
When Sacred Games was first announced in June 2016, Erik Barmack, the Vice President of international original series at Netflix had referred to it as:
Sacred Games reinforces our commitment to bring the authenticity of local stories to Netflix members across 190 countries worldwide.
Vikram Chandra had supplemented it by saying:
I’m confident that all the colour and vitality and music of the fictional world I’ve lived with for so long will come fully alive on the large-scale canvas provided by Netflix.
The other screen adaptation of a book that Khan was earlier seen in was Parineeta, based on a Bengali novel of the same name by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay.
Time to bring out that popcorn yet?
(With inputs from Variety.)
We all love to express ourselves, but how often do we do it in our mother tongue?Here's your chance! This Independence Day, khul ke bol with BOL – Love your Bhasha. Sing, write, perform, spew poetry – whatever you like – in your mother tongue. Send us your BOL at bol@thequint.com or WhatsApp it to 9910181818.
(At The Quint, we are answerable only to our audience. Play an active role in shaping our journalism by becoming a member. Because the truth is worth it.)