Watched the series Sacred Games on Netflix.
- I liked the series.
- I will see a Brahmin team has made the series.
- I mean surely Anurag Kashyap and others behind Phantom Films are upper caste Brahmins.
- And the underlying phrase "Sirf Trivedi Bachega" and Trivedi is UP Brahmin.
- But the series is not pro-Hindu.
- I feel the underlying theme in the movie is "Hindu terror".
- That is why the cop is shown to be a Sardarji.
- They could have made the hero as Christian but it would not be acceptable to the people who made the series as they are "Upper Caste Brahmins"
- They could not have made the hero Muslim as it would be unacceptable to the viewers as well as the storyline. Because the essence of the story is Hindu vs Muslim. Or Hindu vs Abrahamic religions. Among Abrahamic religions, Islam is the most prominent in the sub continent and hence Hindu vs Muslim.
- So they chose the middle path and that is the religion which came out of confluence of Hindu and Muslim and that is Sikhism.
- And so Saif Ali Khan character is the hero and is Sikh or Sardarji.
- They have left the series incomplete.
- But I can know where it is headed.
- I know it is a wet dream for Maharshtrian hardline Hindu fanatics to destroy Mumbai or Bombay. Then they want to build a "New Mumbai" or "naya Bambai".
- I was there in Mumbai from 1998 to 2001 and I have seen the same when two hardliners were talking to a North Indian panwala in Flora Fountain area about the same thing in 1999 when the Kargil war happened and ended. "Naya Bambai banayenge" was what I had heard which will happen if there is a nuclear war between India and Pakistan.
- These hardline Hindu fanatics from Maharashtra see Mumbai or Bombai as a "British city", a city with the legacy of British rule.
- They see Mumbai the land reclaimed from the sea which did not exist in its present form 200 years ago.
- And when British left people from rest of India took over the city.
- These hardline Hindu fanatics from Maharshtra cannot digest Bombay being ruled by outsiders like Christians, Parsis, Iranians, South Indians, Rajasthanis, North Indians, Gujaratis, etc.
- Hence solution for them is a nuclear disaster or attack and Bombay gets obliterated from the earth.
- Same thing is shown in the series Sacred Games.
- In last episode they have shown Hindu hardliners have amassed tons of weapons which will be used to unleash a Civil War like situation which is essentially the majority community Hindus unleashing themselves on minority community i.e. Muslims after Mumbai is destroyed.
- That is why Trivedi is in a bunker with all facilities and will survive the nuclear or perhaps chemical attack. And gas masks are shown. The bunker is much like a Cold War bunker which people made to survive the "nuclear winter".
- That is where the series is headed.
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