Kashyap’s baggage referred to above ensures that we need not elaborate on his anti-Hindu (or, is it anti-Hindutva?) agenda. Beyond that, Season 2 has little to offer. An otherwise ignoble Ganesh Gaitonde ( Nawazuddin Siddiqui) discovers it days before ending his life, an end we had known since Season 1. Sartaj Singh (Saif Ali Khan) always had it. But at least two characters in Sacred Games have souls. And no Bihari, let alone a Mumbaikar, throws around expletives with as much elan as Kashyap’s characters did in Gangs of Wasseypur 1 & 2 (2012) or Sacred Games Season 1 & 2 (2018, 19). Nobody had any qualms about eliminating rivals by hook or by crook to claim the throne of the supreme Rajput in Gulaal. Writing on his approach to filmmaking, then editorial director of Swarajya Sandipan Deb had written while reviewing Raman Raghav 2.0, “… hardly any character in any Anurag Kashyap film has a soul,” which is largely true even in a part-documentary, part-feature film Black Friday. A master of film noir, he took off where Ramgopal Varma left ( Sacred Games Season 2 has a spoof on Varma in one of the episodes). Director Anurag Kashyap comes with some baggage. This is a view the audience will share even if they are politically not inclined towards the right or the left.
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