09 July,2019 02:53 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Pankaj Tripathi and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in a still from Sacred Games' trailer. Picture Courtesy: YouTube
The trailer of the much-anticipated web show, Sacred Games 2 was released by Netflix India on Tuesday. The makers revealed the trailer starring Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Pankaj Tripathi, Ranvir Shorey, Kalki Koechlin, and many others along with its streaming date. The show starts streaming on India's Independence Day, August 15, this year.
Sacred Games was the first Indian original series on the international streaming platform, Netflix. Now that the trailer is out, it has attracted many eyeballs and several memes on the characters and dialogues have been generated already!
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Isn't this meme, cute?
Another meme was focussed on the ongoing India-NewZealand world cup semi-final match.
Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui will reprise their parts as Sartaj Singh and Ganesh Gaitonde, and the new season will see Pankaj Tripathi in a full-fledged role as the mysterious Guruji.
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From the trailer, the story is still proceeding in two timelines as it did in the first season. Pankaj Tripathi, who plays Guruji, was only introduced in the first season but it looks like he holds a huge role in saving the city.
Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has directed Ganesh Gaitonde's track, while Neeraj Ghaywan (of Masaan fame) is the main man behind Sartaj Singh's plot for Season 2. Vikramaditya Motwane and Varun Grover continue their roles of being the showrunner and the lead writer, respectively.
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