Vikramaditya Motwane returns as the show runner, Anurag Kashyap once again takes the reins to direct the Ganesh Gaitonde track, while Sartaj Singh’s track is directed by Neeraj Ghaywan of Masaan fame. He exhorts Singh to save his beloved city from a massive catastrophe that is set to hit Mumbai in 25 days. But before shooting himself, the dreaded gangster drops a spine-chilling hint to his chosen confidante –underachieving Mumbai police constable, Sartaj Singh (Saif Ali Khan) – about a doomsday conspiracy designed to destroy Mumbai. In Season 1, Ganesh Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is dead, having shot his brains out with his own revolver. The story picks up from where it left off in the last episode of Season 1. So yes, religion takes sole centre-stage in the second season of the wildly popular Netflix show based on Vikram Chandra’s magnum opus of the same name. A mob-lynching scene is particularly terrifying – unnerving in its vividness and brilliant in execution. Sacred Games 2 makes the saying come alive in intensely unsettling sequences, choreographing a macabre dance of death and destruction that chills the onlooker to the bone. C.S.Lewis once said, “Of all bad men, religious bad men are the worst”. The magnitude of evil conjured up by mankind in the name of religion, omnipresent throughout the show, makes you recoil in shock and horror.
Sacred Games Season 2 portrays all this and more, in harrowing technicolor and agonizing detail. It’s when the games people play in the name of religion are painted in the gory colours of blood and mayhem and destruction, that’s when they really deliver a gut punch to the solar plexus, sucking the air out of the lungs and bringing us in direct confrontation with the evil that resides within the human race evil that comes to the fore whenever religion is invoked to satisfy man’s insatiable lust for power and supremacy. Yet, words are puny tools to convey a sentiment. Coz the repercussions of religious fanaticism couldn’t have been put in better words. Though the writer of this quote is unknown, there’s something to be said for the utter absolute truth in his words. “Science has taken us to the moon religion has flown us into buildings.”
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