{"id":2878,"date":"2016-04-11T17:13:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T11:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:46:18","slug":"sacred-games-netflix-sartaj-singh-saif-ali-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=2878","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Games: Sartaj Singh, The Man We Can\u2019t Wait to See on Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">&#8220;L<\/span><\/p><\/div><p>ove is a murdering gaandu,\u201d says the taciturn sardar, hero of Vikram Chandra\u2019s epic novel, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sacred Games<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Until this line is uttered, you\u2019ve pretty much ignored Sartaj Singh, the cop who has arrived at a home where a man has cruelly flung a pomeranian from the balcony, in the opening scene of the novel. The owner of Fluffy the pom, is the adulterous Mrs Kamala Pandey, an overly made-up woman who annoyingly calls herself the mummy of Fluffy, and who Sartaj cannot bring himself to like despite her grief. \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/what-is-love-relationship-long-distance-breakup\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Love<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a murdering gaandu,\u201d he says softly as he looks down at the tiny, white dead body of the dog who has become a casualty in the bitter love story of this husband and wife. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the moment he says these five words, Sartaj Singh begins to emerge, faintly but surely. This fascinating man who will carry this mammoth novel on his wholly able shoulders. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sartaj is not a new character for Chandra. We last met the turbaned police officer in the short story \u201cKama\u201d, part of his collection dedicated to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/mumbai-bombay-india-shivaji-maharaj-shiv-sena-thane-haji-ali-mughal-empire-tom-hanks-kala-ghoda\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">city<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Love and Longing in Bombay<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. After having delivered <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/commandments-divorced-indian-women\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">divorce<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> papers to his former wife\u2019s home, Sartaj stood on the streets, in the middle of the evening rush hour and Chandra writes, \u201cHe could feel the size of the city, its millions upon millions, its huge life and its unsolved dead&#8230; and Sartaj knew that nothing was finished.\u201d<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It clearly wasn\u2019t finished because, nine years later, Chandra brings him back to us, this time as one of the central characters of what was to become his career-defining work. Sartaj Singh is a flawed but immensely self-aware character, staggering under the weight of his own fallibility (and that of the human race). He is unquestionably the hero <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that Chandra offers us in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sacred Games<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, even though Sartaj himself seems reluctant to take up the mantle. It\u2019s simply not his style. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sartaj Singh fits the mould of the classic hero of a police procedural, way before police procedurals had their moment under the web-series sun. The detective of a police procedural has a pattern. He is often a socially awkward, dour creature \u2013 some are downright misanthropic \u2013 with a past that inevitably bleeds into the case(s) that he is consumed by. He\u2019s a hero alright, but he\u2019s what you\u2019d call a Byronic hero. <\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p><em>Sacred Games<\/em> with its supremely Sikh hero and a dead gangster whispering wisdom into his ear like a modern-day Betaal, is the stuff great stories are made of.\n<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Byronic hero is an aberration to the romantic hero, a deeply cynical, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/guru-dutt-pyaasa-kaagaz-ke-phool-india-allahabad-love\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">melancholic man<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He exhibits a sense of disillusionment with society, born of Lord Byron\u2019s own advanced levels of victimhood, thanks to his club foot, which imbued his heroes with the same qualities he identified with: idealism, a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.in\/url?sa=t&#038;rct=j&#038;q=&#038;esrc=s&#038;source=web&#038;cd=1&#038;ved=0ahUKEwi_q9fLqLPUAhXIo48KHbXlAocQFgglMAA&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftvtropes.org%2Fpmwiki%2Fpmwiki.php%2FMain%2FByronicHero&#038;usg=AFQjCNGbjA7nM_PTqvBCX8Whq1sCOQkzBQ\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">distaste<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for social institutions, dysfunction, rebelliousness\u2026 and a sweet, sweet melancholy that was immensely seductive for women. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sartaj Singh is created with spadefuls of this same sweet melancholy. A courtly, middle-aged divorced cop, who is morally compromised and who once lived off the wealth of his affluent ex-wife should not be hero material. And yet he most definitely is and by the end, all you want is to know a man like Sartaj in real life and make his world more bearable. \u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rarely has a Sikh hero captured our imaginations before \u2013 certainly no cerebral ones. Sikh heroes are usually imbued with overtones of excessive physicality (think Sunny Deol in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/border-sunny-deol-akshay-khanna-suniel-shetty-jackie-shroff-j-p-dutta\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Border<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) or used for comic relief (think of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/diljit-dosanjh-soorma-sandeep-singh-phillauri-punjab-bollywood\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diljit Dosanjh<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in his \u201cpendu\u201d avatar), rather than the aching vulnerability and emotional intelligence that is the hallmark of this one. Perhaps it is this subversion that has made him an enduring cult hero.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All through the landscape of this massive, incredibly detailed book, Sartaj is trying to prevent a nuclear calamity, but he also has other, relatively minor cases of casual cruelty to deal with on the side \u2013 Fluffy is one of them. They are devastating on a smaller scale but you sense that it is these minor cases that sustain him through the long haul of his goal. He is a noble man, deadened by the soul-crushing work that cops have to do in this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/culture\/mumbai-meri-jaan-kabhi-cushy-kabhie-kaam\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">merciless city<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and who have to see the worst that humanity has to offer. <\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1530797686.jpg\" alt=\"Sartaj Singh\" width=\"732\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36484\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>It remains to be seen, of course, if the Netflix series will capture this intangible essence of both the book and its brooding anti-hero.<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: Netflix <\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so he clings. To avoid looking straight at the larger picture, Sartaj clings to the details of the smaller one \u2013 his small cases, their small devastations. \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay with the details,\u201d Chandra writes.\u00a0\u201dThe specifics are real. It was important, somehow, to care about Mrs Kamala Pandey and her sordid <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/swipe-right-on-promiscuity-before-marriage\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">adultery<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the chokra in the red T-shirt. He felt a loyalty to the ordinary, a sudden affection for her glossiness and her made-up face and her greed for glamour.\u201d<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you plough through <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sacred Games<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, you struggle along with the insomnia-ridden Sartaj, as he attempts every day, to answer the most primary philosophical question of life: How do you keep yourself together in a world that is most certainly broken? Sartaj decides he can\u2019t, and gives up on his principles (inherited from his dad, also a cop who walks the straight and narrow), succumbing to bribery and The System, with the wearied acceptance that honesty is too much hard work. \u00a0<\/span>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sacred Games<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with its supremely Sikh hero and a dead gangster whispering wisdom into his ear like a modern-day Betaal,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is the stuff great stories are made of. It is the story of men struggling with their burdens, their goodness and their ghosts, and failing spectacularly at it. It is the story of women, who want to reach out and help them carry those burdens. It is a pacy, sprawling, 900-page narrative with a tangible, physical plot that heaves with detail, even as it hums lightly with an incandescent soul. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It remains to be seen, of course, if the Netflix series will capture this intangible essence of both the book and its brooding anti-hero. Vikramaditya Motwane, one of the directors of the series, has cited in an interview that, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The character of\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&#038;q=sartaj+singh\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sartaj Singh\u00a0<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the book is very internal, and in the web series, we tried to make it a little external because of the change of medium.\u201d Frankly, to me it sounds as terrifying as KJo declaring that he has changed the class milieu of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/sairat-remake-karan-johar-jhanvi-kapoor-ishan-khattar-bollywood\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dhadak<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in his upmarket remake of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/a-parshya-i-knew-and-the-archi-might-have-been\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sairat<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 because in doing so, he has duly warned us that the body may look and feel the same, but its beating heart has been surgically removed. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One hopes, for the sake of the desperate fans of both the book and Sartaj Singh, that Mr Motwane doesn\u2019t really do that.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacred Games with its supremely Sikh hero, is the stuff great stories are made of: Men struggling with their burdens, their goodness and their ghosts, and failing spectacularly at it. 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