Netflix Announces Its First Indian Series Based on Vikram Chandra's ‘Sacred Games’ To Be Produced by Phantom Films

Netflix, the global on-demand video streaming site, has announced its first Indian original series based on the critically-acclaimed best-selling novel ‘Sacred Games’ by Indian author Vikram Chandra.
                                               

Set in Mumbai, ‘Sacred Games’ will delve into the city’s intricate web of organized crime, corruption, politics and espionage that lie beneath India’s economic renaissance.

 

It is an epic masterwork of exceptional richness and power that interweaves the lives of the privileged, the famous, the wretched and the bloodthirsty

The Hindi-English series will be produced by Netflix in partnership with filmmaker Anurag Kashyap’s Phantom Films

Netlfix was launched in India in January 2016, allowing subscribers to catch films or TV shows for a fee as low as Rs 500 per month.

So far Netflix produced American shows are available for viewing on the site along with a series of popular Indian films.