Six-episode historically fictive miniseries about how nameless and faceless officers with India’s intelligence agency thwarted the development of The Bomb by Pakistan (at least for a little while).
I didn’t bother to fact-check the show but I was rather surprised at the relative lack of jingoism and mostly measured portrayal of Pakistani characters as normal people. Let’s just say I didn’t hear as much highbrow and/or phlegm-y Urdu. I also didn’t see as many prayer beads, skullcaps, henna’d beards, or sinister-looking people as I’d expected. Indian productions tend to tell you who the Bad Guys are by deploying unreasonable amounts of eyeliner/kohl onto unpleasant countenances. Didn’t see much of that either.
Excellent work by Sunny Hinduja as intelligence honcho Ali Murtaza and Suhail Nayyar as Rafiq, with a really standout performance by Kapil Radha as Rizwan. Wish they gave Rajat Kapoor more screen-time but he did play a highly private and secretive character.
Nice set design. Average, enjoyable.