Saif Ali Khan (Sartaj Singh) a troubled policeman in Mumbai who receives a call from gangster Ganesh Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), who asks him to save lots of the town within 25 days. The series follows the events. Other artists include Radhika Apte, Girish Kulkarni, Neeraj Kabi, Jeetendra Joshi, Rajshree Deshpande, Karan Wahi, Sukhmani Sadana, Aamir Bashir, Jatin Sarna, Alnaz Noroji, Pankaj Tripathi, Ameya Wagh, and Kubera Saw.
The development of the Sacred Games began after Eric Bermack, Netflix’s vice president, approached Motwane in 2014 to create Indian content for the platform. He opted to adapt Chandra’s novel to the local Indian language, for which Motwane agreed.
After the script was completed, Motwane asked Kashyap to direct; Motwane directed scenes involving Singh, while Kashyap directed Gaitonde. Swapnil Sonawane is the director of photography for Motwane, while Sylvester Fonseka and Aseem Bajaj filmed scenes directed by Kashyap. Anshuman Singh’s casting house was for that. Aarti Bajaj was the editor, and Alokananda Dasgupta composed the background score.
The first four episodes of Holy Games premiered on 30 June 2018, with a full season of eight episodes released on Netflix in 191 countries on 5 June 2018. It has subtitles in more than 20 languages. It received mostly positive reviews from critics, particularly acclaim for performance and writing. The performance of Nawaz, Saif, Pankaj, and Joshi was well received by the critics as well as the audience.
The meme templates of this web series went viral and easily attracted attention on social media due to its versatile dialogues, which fit almost every situation and can be used as a crossover idea with multiple meme templates.
The 2nd season of Sacred Games premiered on 15 August 2019.