Shocking! Netflix may shelve 'Sacred Games' season 2, sends letter to makers
This #MeToo campaign has now become a trouble for the film industry and especially for the people who were connected in Phantom Films. This year filmmaker Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane made a sensation with their first Netflix series Sacred Games and the series got appreciated a lot at the large scale.
However, a few days back the Netflix released a small teaser of Sacred Games season 2 and revealed that it will come out on October month. Now reports are that this MeToo campaign has raised the issue for the second season and it because of Varun Grover who got accused of sexual harassment.
The worst is yet to come. Sacred Games will be back for Season 2. pic.twitter.com/lSBIzQR2b9
— Netflix India (@NetflixIndia) September 21, 2018
Varun Grover is the co-writer of Sacred Games and after the allegations, there were the reports that makers are thinking to drop Varun Grover's name from the series, but now things have been tough. According to a close source of Netflix, they may drop the second season of Sacred Games.
The source told Bollywood Hungama, “Dropping Varun Grover’s name as co-writer is not an option here. Either he stays or the series is dropped.”
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Noticeably, Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Radhika Apte, Kubbra Sait, Pankaj Tripathi and others played leading roles in the web series then went hit on the internet.
First published: 12 October 2018, 11:46 IST