Ted Sarandos, Netflix CEO, recently appeared on a podcast, where he opened up about the content on Netflix India, but his remark on Sacred Games, irked creator, Anurag Kashyap. He slammed Sarandos on social media, by calling him 'dumb' and said that he should have launched the streaming platform in India with "saas bahu" shows.
What did Ted Sarandos say about Sacred Games?
On Nikhil Kamath's WTF podcast, Ted Sarandos said he was unsure if the idea of launching Netflix in India with Sacred Games was the right choice. He also added that they could have done something more 'populist' instead.
He said, "Our very first Indian original show was Sacred Games. And I thought, 바카라˜This is going to be great. People in India love movies. This is a TV show that feels as big as a movie, it has movie stars.바카라™ What바카라™s interesting about it is that it was very, very novel, but what I didn바카라™t understand that we were introducing a brand new kind of entertainment in a country the size of India."
"For me, if I did it all over again, would I have done Sacred Games a couple of years later, and did things that were more populist (instead)? Maybe. But we knew that India was going to be a slower journey to get to where we wanted to get to. But it바카라™s a great prize, at the end of the day," he added.
Anurag Kashyap slams Ted Sarandos for his remark on Sacred Games
Sarandos statement didn't go down well with Kashyap. He shared a screengrab of a news report on Sarandos' remark, on Threads and wrote, "He should have started with Saas Bahu .. he would have done well. Which he is doing now Z I always knew the tech guys are dumb when it comes to story telling but @tedsarandos is the definition of dumb is what I didn바카라™t know . Good to discover that. This explains everything now."
By "Saas Bahu," the filmmaker was apparently referring to the recently announced partnership between Netflix India and Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms. Ekta is known for making ''saas bahu'' soaps.
For the unversed, Sacred Games, which was released in 2018, was Netflix India's first original. It was directed by Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane, and starred Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in key roles.
