How Netflix hijack drama is undone by its wobbly politics

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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