The major players behind Sacred Games, India’s original Netflix series, found the digital format of storytelling liberating as it gave them room to explore and experiment.
Actors Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Radhika Apte play pivotal roles in the gangster-cop drama that delves into the seamier side of Mumbai. Directed by Vikramaditya Motwane and Anurag Kashyap, Sacred Games is based on Vikram Chandra’s book of the same name.
“The medium is so liberating because you don’t need to tell stories that are two and half hours long, with an interval, with two songs etc… There are so many such boundaries taken away and we had to tell a story in six hours and have characters that conflicts going on for years and years. It’s very liberating and it is so much fun,” said Motwane in an interview with Gulf News tabloid!.
The actors and the directors were in Dubai to interact with the press to promote the series which will premiere on Netflix on July 6.
Khan plays the emotionally-complex Sikh police officer Sartaj Singh, while Siddiqui plays the morally-corrupt gangster Ganesh Gaitonde.
“Sartaj Singh has such an interesting arc. I wasn’t used to playing such a damaged character and that was a charm in itself to play a character who was addicted to pills, had wrecked his marriage and his career was going nowhere. The poor fellow is in a bad place and from there how he becomes a hero was interesting. Two words from the books stand out — troubled and honest,” said Khan.
The cast of Sacred Games are due to meet their fans in Dubai later in the evening.
Read the full interviews in Gulf News tabloid! soon.
