Some scenes involving the cop Majid (Aamir Bashir) are relatively affecting compared to most of the series, which really struggles to elicit an emotional response. Unlike the first season, which had novel takes on religious fundamentalism and everyday bigotry, Season 2 doesn’t give us new ways to think about the same material. But the main problem with this season is that it suffers from a debilitating been-there-seen-that condition. It tracks 23 years of Gaitonde’s life – from 1994 to 2017, where he finally meets Guruji, understands Trivedi, deflects the demands of RAW agent Yadav Madam (Amruta Subhash) – and Sartaj keeps unravelling the different clues, inching closer to solve the case. There’s much to unpack here, though, at a narrative level. Did the makers lose interest? Did they lose thematic material to mine? The second season feels so detached from its centre that it struggles to evoke intellectual curiosity. The plot, as before, is tightly wound and demands close attention, but there’s so little happening between the lines, that you wonder what happened. Here, most things are seen from a (figurative) distance. To begin with, it severely lacks the urgency, the wicked humour and the heartfelt bonds that made the first season so captivating. Season 2, directed by Anurag Kashyap and Neeraj Ghaywan, markedly differs from its prequel.
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The other track involves Sartaj, who has 25 days to crack the case – one that, if not solved, can wipe out Mumbai. It opens in 1994, when Gaitonde is locked up on a boat in a sea far from Mumbai. Season 2 picks up those loose threads and attempts to bind them. It gave us prominent characters – such as Guruji (Pankaj Tripathi), Trivedi (Chittaranjan Tripathy), JoJo (Surveen Chawla) – but withheld crucial information about them, inviting us to connect the dots. The foreshadowing and clues, sprinkled throughout the season, were clever. Structured non-linearly – alternating between the two protagonists, Mumbai don Ganesh Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) and cop Sartaj Singh (Saif Ali Khan) – it made us wonder what lay next. The first season of Sacred Games left a bunch of questions hanging.
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