He earns the sobriquet of ' Kachra raja' after he wrests control of Mumbai's municipal waste disposal business in the mid-1980s. It isn't a coincidence that one of the two key Sacred Games players - crime lord Ganesh Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) has built his evil empire literally on a garbage dump. Here, prurience and profanity jostle for attention as people wade - or are forced to wade - through unending muck running through and around multiple divides: Mandir/Masjid, Hindu/Muslim, Brahmin/non-Brahmin, good cops/bad cops. Thanks to the medium it is on, which, of course, is beyond the pale of mindless censorship, Sacred Games goes all out to lay bare the shady secrets of a universe when even the Gods, human and those supposedly in Heaven, aren't safe. Nothing exemplifies this more eloquently than the extended portrayal in Sacred Games of transgender cabaret dancer Kukoo, who had only limited play in the literary source material (Vikram Chandra's 2006 novel of the same name).
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It is able to give full vent to its own free will. It does not, in the manner of a pubescent drifter, have to hide his/her desires and actions from prying, disapproving eyes. Speaking of Bollywood thrillers, Sacred Games, Netflix's first Indian original, marks the attainment of adulthood.
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The series dives headlong and deep into this dangerous milieu where politicians, policemen, starlets and gangsters are like Shakespeare's "flies to wanton boys". So, is there nothing sacred anymore? No, definitely not in the Mumbai underworld, which plays deadly games with the city, and certainly not where religion is a means to befool the masses. Do you believe in God? That is an oft asked question across the eight episodes of the series.
But the interventions of faith in the world that this cops-and-criminals thriller unfolds in are anything but divine.
God is repeatedly evoked in Netflix's Sacred Games. Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Radhika Apte, Surveen Chawlaĭirectors: Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane