Sacred Games: Vikram Chandra has penned some heart felting love letters to Vikramaditya Motwane after watching Sacred Games
Have you watched the amazing trailer of Sacred Games on YouTube in which a cynical police officer (played Saif Ali Khan), against Ganesh Gaitonde, a mafia overlord (Nawazuddin Siddiqui). Vikramaditya Motwane worked with some amazing screenwriters to add some more stars to this novel ‘Sacred Games’ Vikram Chandra. He shared the concept with Anurag Kashyap, co-founder of Phantom Films and after that, they decided to give it a shot. Recently released Mukkabaaz of Anurag Kashyap also earned some huge blessings and after wrapping it he decided to work on ‘Sacred Games.’
Motwane decided to take two directors for this as he believes that it will add more flavors to the series. “We shot the world of two lead characters, Singh and Gaitonde, separately. It was a bit of an experiment to shoot our individual portions and put it together on the editing table,” recalls the Bhavesh Joshi Superhero director. While Kashyap shot “the noir portion” with Siddiqui, Motwane helmed the storyline revolving around Khan’s character. “The only difference for me this time was that I was looking for someone else’s approval,” says Kashyap, in a lighter vein, as he keeps calling Motwane “boss”.
These duos also worked together and had made some amazing movies in Bollywood such as Lootera (2013), Ugly (2014), Bombay Velvet (2015) and Udta Punjab (2016), and also believes that they understand each other completely. “Working together on Sacred Games was not a complicated process. Our roles were cut out and we were working separately. I just shot my portions and the editing choices were made Vikram, editor Aarti Bajaj, and writer Varun Grover,” says Kashyap.
Converting a Novel into Movie Kashyap says: “I had read the book when it came out and spent one month on it. I remember the essence of it. For me, it was not very difficult to get into its world. My aim was to be true to the material given to me. Its author Vikram Chandra has read the script and watched the show. He has written amazing love letters to Vikramaditya after that. So, we are relieved.” While working together, do they, at any point, get on each other’s nerves? “We get on each other’s nerves when we are drinking together,” says Kashyap.
They both are working in the Bollywood for over last two decades but now they decided to make a series together. If you enjoyed the duo combo on Netflix then please do tell us in the comment section.
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