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Operation Safed Sagar review: War drama that avoids chest-thumping
Netflix’s Operation Safed Sagar, created by Abhijeet Singh Parmar and Kushal Srivastava, landed on the streamer this week. The series follows the Indian Air Force’s Golden Arrows squadron during the 1999 Kargil…
The Story in Brief
Netflix’s Operation Safed Sagar, created by Abhijeet Singh Parmar and Kushal Srivastava, landed on the streamer this week. The series follows the Indian Air Force’s Golden Arrows squadron during the 1999 Kargil War. NDTV calls it a “razor-sharp war drama without bloodlust.”
The show balances military jargon with humane storytelling, focusing on internal conflicts, errors in judgment, and survivor’s guilt. It also explores the frosty dynamics between Nawaz Sharif (Vinay Pathak) and General Pervez Musharraf (Manu Rishi Chadha). The cast includes Siddharth, Jimmy Shergill, Abhay Verma, and Dia Mirza.
The Indian Opinion
Patriotic series often swing between jingoistic bombast and sanitised heroism. This review claims Operation Safed Sagar chooses a different path: honouring valour without ridiculing the enemy. But does it really let viewers sit with the moral weight of war, or does it just smuggle in the same old nationalism through quieter means? The test will be how audiences react to the portrayal of Pakistani characters and whether the show’s “no celebration” approach holds across all episodes.
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