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Netflix fans obsessed with ‘masterpiece’ gangster series compared to The Godfather and Goodfellas with glowing reviewsHave YOU got a story? Email [email protected] By LUCY MURGATROYD Published: 06:55 EDT, 18 May 2025 | Updated: 07:11 EDT, 18 May 2025 e-mail 97 shares 15 View comments var googletag = googletag || {};
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Netflix fans have shared how obsessed they are with a ‘masterpiece’ gangster series which has been compared to The Godfather and Goodfellas. The Hindi-language crime drama Sacred Games, which is based on Vikram Chandra’s novel of the same name, hit our screens on the streaming service back in 2018. Netflix’s synopsis reads: ‘A link in their pasts leads an honest cop to a fugitive gang boss, whose cryptic warning spurs the officer on a quest to save Mumbai from cataclysm.’ Sacred Games has 16 episodes across two seasons and then wrapped up in 2019.It stars the likes of Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Radhika Apte, Pankaj Tripathi, Kalki Koechlin and Ranvir Shorey.Although the prog