Was I Expecting Too Much From ‘Sacred Games’?

A few months back, a news report that read ‘Amazon Prime gets more eyeballs than Netflix in India’ had coaxed me to delve into a deep analysis. Post my diagnosis, I decided to vent out on social media, where some of my acquaintances opined that the reason behind Netflix’s scarce popularity, was the lack of Indian content. Surely, yes till this time; where Love per Square Foot, One Night Stand, and Bahubali covered up for Indian content. The existing ‘myth’ that Netflix is devoid of Indian content was broken by ‘Lust Stories’ and now ‘Sacred Games’.

Certainly, Bollywood  has stepped out of its clichéd dimensions of love, action, romance, and has stretched across to genres that speak beyond. Consider an entire series encircling around ‘lust’. Kudos to the directors for having conceived this idea and enlightening the mass.

Source: DNA 

To be blunt and honest, ‘Sacred Games’ failed to entice me, may be because I was midway with ‘Breaking Bad’. Or maybe because my senses were used to the flavor that Hollywood provided.  I could not help but pat myself owing to the patience I had shown not to get back to ‘Breaking Bad’ and stick to ‘Sacred Games’. My attention reached its climax during the 7^th and of course the ending episode. The last episode seemed enthralling, where a lot was revealed about the ‘D Day’, with Nawaz revealing his third father and further helping Sartaj to unveil the mysteries relating  to the demolition of Mumbai. Nevertheless, there was a strange vagueness.

While the story unfolds at length, yet a lot of questions remain unanswered…Kukkoo’s death and her presence somehow seems incomplete. What happens to actor Nayanika, and what about Zoya’s actor boyfriend, who was acquitted by the police on false charges? Was it Radhika Apte’s death that reconciled the RAW and Mumbai police?

Netflix hasn’t yet confirmed of a sequel to ‘Sacred Games’, if yes, maybe some questions would be answered. If not, then the mystery continues!

Well, if not fully, at least by 60 percent I repent the decision of my switching from American content to Indian content.