Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, in a new interview, addressed the status of 'Sacred Games', India’s first Netflix original series.
Anurag co-directed both the first and second seasons of the show, alongside Vikramaditya Motwane and Neeraj Ghaywan, respectively. The second season wasn’t as well received as season one, and Netflix hasn’t given any update about whether the show is officially cancelled or not.
He said in Hindi, “Vikram Motwane was driving Sacred Games. Ten days before I was supposed to go shoot Mukkabaaz, he asked me to come on board. I told him I was always interested, but they had a problem with me. Some local people had told them that I didn’t have a female audience. It was my zone, and they eventually came around… A season three was supposed to come out, but they shut it down, Netflix would know why.”
He was talking while appearing on Mashable India’s The Bombay Journey YouTube series.
He said that after the Tandav controversy, all streaming platforms are fearful. Released on Prime Video, the show became massively controversial over one scene involving actor Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub. Multiple court cases were filed against the cast and crew, citing disruption of religious harmony. Changes were made to the objectionable scene by series creator Ali Abbas Zafar. “OTT ki aaj ki date mein himmat nahi hai, Tandav ke baad sab dar gaye hain,” he said.
The Indian political thriller web series on Amazon Prime Video, created, directed and produced by Ali Abbas Zafar, was his digital debut. The series had Saif Ali Khan, Sunil Grover, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Dimple Kapadia, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Dino Morea and Anup Soni. It was about the dark corners of Indian politics, where people who will go to any lengths in pursuit of power.
