Sacred Games Season 1

8 episodes · about 6 hours · complete season
2018 · all episodes at once · Hindi · Netflix
Filmi Score · season 1
Very good
4 reviews · provisional
75
Age guidance
18 and up
A · rated by Netflix · Family Room ↓
18+
Summary

A link in their pasts leads an honest cop to a fugitive gang boss, whose cryptic warning spurs the officer on a quest to save Mumbai from cataclysm.

Where to watch

All seasons

Season 12018 · 8 episodesVery good · 4 reviews18+
75
Season 22019 · 8 episodesGood · 7 reviews18+
58
Cast & crew
Created byVikramaditya Motwane
Season 1 directed byVikramaditya Motwane, Anurag Kashyap
Season 1 written bySmita Singh, Vasant Nath, Varun Grover, Vikram Chandra
Cast

Summary

A link in their pasts leads an honest cop to a fugitive gang boss, whose cryptic warning spurs the officer on a quest to save Mumbai from cataclysm.

Where to watch

Family Room

Is Sacred Games season 1 OK for kids?
Parents should know
A Mumbai crime-and-police thriller spanning two timelines, with gang violence, a suicide, profane dialogue, and one character's sexual exploitation; also shows compassion overriding casual racism.
Drinking, smoking, drugsNo review evidence yet
The record, item by item
Violence · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“kills himself in front of the cop, with the icy-cold demeanour of a true-blue villain” view the record →
Violence · Mild · Reviewer on record
“the last of her merciless killer's targets” view the record →
Violence · Mild · Reviewer on record
“responsible for multiple murders and crimes in the gritty Bombay” view the record →
Language · Mild · Reviewer on record
“Bhagwan ko mante ho? Bhagwan ko l*#d farak nahi padta.” view the record →
Language · Mild · Reviewer on record
“Do you believe in God? Well, God doesn't give a s***” view the record →
Sex & nudity · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“a TV actress forced into sexual servitude” view the record →
Intense scenes · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“a TV actress forced into sexual servitude” view the record →
Intense scenes · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“kills himself in front of the cop” view the record →
Positive messages · Clear · Reviewer on record
“chooses compassion over glorification” view the record →
Role models · Some · Reviewer on record
“Sartaj empathetically exposes Katekar's racism” view the record →

What the critics said

4 reviews read · the critic’s own number where they gave one
The critic calls the season a genre-defining game-changer, praising the writing, Nawazuddin Siddiqui's performance, direction, soundtrack, and… Read it there →
Derived by Filmi
92
The critic finds the season an absorbing, beautifully produced showcase of Indian craft, praising Siddiqui, Khan and Joshi despite plot holes and… Read it there →
Derived by Filmi
78
Dipti Kharude · 30 Jun 2018
4/5, stated in the text — not a formal rating. Read it there →
Stated in textFilmi’s reading 68
80
3/5, stated in the text — not a formal rating. Read it there →
Stated in textFilmi’s reading 62
60
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