Sacred Games: First look of Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui & Radhika Apte's Netflix drama will leave you intrigued

Netflix India has just dropped the first look of Saif Ali Khan's web series 'Sacred Games'. The new show based on author Vikram Chandra's best-selling novel of the same name also stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Radhika Apte in the lead.

The first look of their characters is out which presents Saif Ali Khan returns to his turbanator avatar post his 2009 home production, Love Aaj Kal. Dressed in a police uniform and blood spattered across his face, cop Sartaj Singh aka Saif looks intense and on a mission. With a creepy smile, Nawazuddin Siddhique looks dapper in a kurta pajama in the role of gangster Ganesh Gaitonde, Radhika Apte's serious look has also got us intrigued. 

Erik Barmack, vice president of international original series at Netflix attended Jio MAMI 19th Mumbai Film Festival last year and spilled the beans on Sacred Games. "Nawaz plays Gaitonde, the crime under the lord of the series. This is an ambitious storytelling. We have two directors following two different decades of what's happening in the Mumbai criminal underworld," Erik said. "We have Nawaz in the '80s and we have a more present story. All are shot in practical locations in Mumbai. We have these great film actors in a tight storytelling, that does feel like Narcos, in the richness of the shoot and complexity," he added.

Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin shot on real locations in Mumbai for the show which delves into the city's intricate web of organized crime, corruption, politics, and espionage.

Erik even revealed that it wasn't difficult to convince Saif to come on board. He said, "He is intrinsically motivated to do things which are challenging. If you look at his film career, he has taken unusual choices. When he read the scripts and saw what we were doing, he was very interested. That's true also for Radhika Apte and other cast members."

The series is produced in partnership with Phantom Films, will be available to the streaming giant's over 100 million members in more than 190 countries.

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