

Except she believes there is more to the story than just a gang war. She, like Sartaj, follows her instincts and teams up with Sartaj to save the city. We see a little bit of emotional instability in him but not so much that we question his judgment as he pursues his cop instincts.Īnjali Mathur, the RAW agent who wants to step out into the field and not just stay behind her desk. This I presume is what leads him to consume anxiety pills. His wife has left him and he hasn't gotten over her. His refusal becomes leverage for his superior who dangles his refusal as bait at every opportunity that Sartaj needs back up or when he works on a lead. Then we have Sartaj, the Sikh inspector who is trying really hard to battle the internal corruption in police services by refusing to give a false statement in court. Gaitonde claims he has three fathers and tells us about each one and how they influenced his life and made him who he is. You and I and that is if you were born in the 80's will nod your head at the narrative of the story when scenes of unrest are shown in the post Indira Gandhi era that has left the nation broken and at the same time has become that "gap" that Politicians use as their mosh pits come election season. We see ruthlessness in him which is a pre requisite of being a don but at the same time we see him trying to make his gang walk the secular line so as not to have religion come into play.

He dreams big and he sets his ambition into action. The show takes us through his journey from Trimbakeshwar to Bombay and how as an adult after pedaling in drugs he decides by and by that he is meant for much more than that. Ganesh Gaitonde is that don who has only one purpose and that is to be the city he lives in - Bombay. Sacred Games falls under the latter category. Both are fun ways to sit back and enjoy a show. I love the slow narrative where each and everything is described in such a manner that you feel you are in that situation and you start feeling what the character feels and then there is the impromptu situation where you are unexpectedly put in and you have to start catching up with why the characters are doing what they are doing. I live on the extreme ends of storytelling arch. This isn't a slow narrative, you basically have to run with the characters to catch up with their mind and emotions and sometimes have to see between the frames.
