How Netflix hijack drama is undone by its wobbly politics

Sep 9, 2024 | 11:32 IST

Instead of critically examining one of Indian civil aviation history’s darkest moments, the drama tries to play it safe. However, it still managed to get the goat of Hindutva activists

Arguably, the most candid moment in Anubhav Sinha’s over-rated dramatisation of the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight to Kandahar, now gripping the nation, is a cryptic dialogue between two Indian intelligence officers right at the end of the drama as they look back at the crisis that shook the nation.

“We won,” says one rather smugly.

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How Netflix hijack drama is undone by its wobbly politics

Instead of critically examining one of Indian civil aviation history’s darkest moments, the drama tries to play it safe. However, it still managed to get the goat of Hindutva activists

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How Netflix hijack drama is undone by its wobbly politics

Instead of critically examining one of Indian civil aviation history’s darkest moments, the drama tries to play it safe. However, it still managed to get the goat of Hindutva activists

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