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A link in their pasts leads an honest cop to a
fugitive gang boss, whose cryptic warning spurs the
officer on a quest to save Mumbai from cataclysm.
Unfolding like a pulpy retelling of a
mythological epic, the second season
of Netflix’s Sacred Games is a more
complex experience than the first,
without ever compromising on the
populism that made it such a phenomenon
in the first place.
It is dense without ever feeling overwhelming,
controversial but never sleazy; a thoroughly entertaining example of a television series operating at the peak of its potential.
Three episodes of Sacred Games 2 were provided for preview -- make of that what you will -- and this should be read as a review of those three episodes only.
Sacred Games, right out of the gate, returns with a swagger that could put even Ganesh Gaitonde to shame - a sign of confidence for a show that is equally adept at ‘dialoguebaazi’ and quoting the Epic of Gilgamesh. There is, in fact, a scene that combines both, and perfectly captures the essence of season two.
“What do we learn from Gilgamesh?” Kalki Koechlin’s character, Batya Abelman, asks a bunch of devotees. Met not with raised hands but with devout silence, Batya proceeds to answer her own question. “The pursuit of power and control is as futile as the pursuit of immortality.” Her manner isn’t all that different from that of her former mentor, Pankaj Tripathi’s Guruji, who speaks with the mellifluous musicality of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, peppering his sermons with the occasional smutty word.
She’s an enigmatic woman who appears in both the Gaitonde and the Sartaj timelines, and is a brand new addition, not to be found in the book, neither in flesh nor as a facsimile. While on paper she is to Guruji what Maa Anand Sheela was to Rajneesh, there is perhaps more to her than meets the eye.
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