It's been five days since the premiere of "Sacred Games", Netflix's first Indian original series, and a complaint has already been filed against actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui and the producers of the series for insulting a Congress prime minister. Netflix has also been named in the complaint filed by a Congress member in West Bengal.
Rajiv Sinha, in his letter to the Kolkata Police, said that Nawazuddin as Ganesh Gaitonde "abused our late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi calling him fattu, which translated as pu*** in the subtitle". He also accused the makers of the show of "misrepresenting facts during his regime".
The series is making as much noise for its sex scenes, the use of profanity and savagery as it is for directors Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane's extraordinary efforts at transforming author Vikram Chandra's mammoth novel by the same name into a web series.
The Indian Series is captive and those who liked watching Gang of Waseypur are going to enjoy it. Nawazuddin and Saif Ali Khan both have done justice to their roles. No doubt it is going to be a hit and might create political storm.