According to the Tibetian school of Buddhism it is an intermediate state of transition between death and rebirth. Sacred Games Season 2 Episode 4: Bardoīardo or antarabhava is a state of existence between two births on earth. In order to suppress Apasmara, Lord Shiva took the form of Nataraj, performed Tandava to keep him crushed right beneath his foot.Īnalogical Reference: Gaitonde is the Apasmara here who despite trying to change his fate gets bested by superior forces including Guruji and Yadav Madam. However, subduing this demon dwarf wasn’t easy because killing him would mean disturbing the balance of ignorance and knowledge which would then mean devaluing knowledge of all forms. Apasmara had a tendency to plague humans who used to pray the Hindu God Shiva. He has a body of an infant but the face of a demon. Sacred Games 2 Episode 3: ApasmaraĪs per the Hindu mythology, Apasmara or Muyalaka is a dwarf demon that represents epilepsy as well as ignorance. On the other hand, Kalki acts as a Siduri to Sartaj Singh in the asharam to let go off his guilt and shame for his wife as well as Katekar and live in the present. Siduri discourages him from continuing his dangerous journey to Utnapishtim.Ĭonnection to the Storyline: Yadav Madam acts as Siduri to Gaitonde where she in a way warns him not to go behind Issa and instead appreciate the very life he is living under the given circumstances. It was Siduri, the alewife (women in brewing) who dissuaded the Sumerian King Gilgamesh from his quest to immortality. In the Mesopotamian mythology, Siduri is an intelligent female demigod associated with fermentation and a tavern keeper. He not only saved the world but also protected the Vedas so that it could venture into the next yuga.Īnalogical Reference: Gaitonde is Matsya whose duties just like the Vishnu Avatar is to save his own world along with the sacred knowledge to get into the next yug or the next stage of his life. It was in this form Lord Vishnu saved the earthly existence by controlling the flood that was supposed to wash out the world. This avatar took form during the end of the first Yuga, the Satya Yuga when Lord Brahma, the creator went to sleep.Īccording to the Hindu mythology after the end of every yuga, Lord Brahma went to sleep. In fact, it is the first of all his avatars. Matysa is one of the ten avatars of the Hindu God Vishnu. Here we share the meaning of each of the eight-episode titles of Sacred Games Season 2 Sacred Games 2 Episode 1: Matysa Yes, every eight episodes revolving around the world of Gaitonde, Parulkar and Sartaj Singh relates to Indian or Greek mythology metaphorically.
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It’s probably safe to say that Sacred Games is quite unlike what one might expect from a crime series, and its bizarre fusion of dark humor, satire, violence, stylization and light magical-realism give it a unique identity among Netflix’s seemingly-infinite thumbnails.Sacred Games Season 2 is finally streaming on Netflix, and this time again just like Season 1, the writers have given an analogical reference to each of the episode’s titles. The flavor might not be entirely familiar to Western audiences, but it provides welcome jolts of entertainment when the plotting starts to sag. That having been said, Sacred Games has energy and brings no small amount of verve and inventiveness to proceedings. It’s no easy task adapting a novel that size, especially for an overseas audience, and as is typical for cross-cultural fiction, there are a fair helping of nods and references that’ll whoosh straight over the heads of anyone who isn’t Indian.
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And also like the book, which is huge and could function as a murder weapon itself, the whole thing sometimes feels a little muddled. The show moves back and forth well, but it’s undeniable that the villain here is allowed to be a much more compelling character than the hero. Like the book, Sacred Games alternates between Singh attempting to decipher Gaitonde’s present-day mystery plot and Gaitonde himself narrating his criminal career. After being called by Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), a notorious Mumbai criminal who’s been missing for years, and warned of some dire, unspecific event 25 days away, Singh’s on the case alongside Radhika Apte as an agent from the intelligence services and Jitendra Joshi as his sergeant.
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His integrity has cost him promotions and respect and a thriving love life, but it nonetheless positions him as an uncomplicated hero in Sacred Games, which adheres quite faithfully to the source novel as it ping-pongs back and forth between satire and gangland melodramatics. Sartaj Singh, played by Saif Ali Khan, is a rare Sikh cop on the Mumbai police force, surrounded almost exclusively by corrupt colleagues.