 "Sacred Games")
A dog is thrown off from a high-rise building in Mumbai, raising shrieks from the schoolchildren standing below.
Netflix’s first original Indian series based on Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games starts off by being true to the 2007 book, literally. The first line in the novel is about a white Pomeranian, Fluffy, being thrown off five floors.
Releasing on July 6, the eight-part series, of which I previewed four, follows the plotline, character names et al of Chandra’s complicated tale. Yet, it acquires a life and texture different from the book. The action is fast and furious. Against a
Netflix’s first original Indian series based on Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games starts off by being true to the 2007 book, literally. The first line in the novel is about a white Pomeranian, Fluffy, being thrown off five floors.
Releasing on July 6, the eight-part series, of which I previewed four, follows the plotline, character names et al of Chandra’s complicated tale. Yet, it acquires a life and texture different from the book. The action is fast and furious. Against a
