Ted Sarandos, co-CEO of Netflix, is reminiscent of the introduction of holy games, calls Indian Entertainment Market 'Exciting' | Mint

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India]June 8 (Ani): Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s ‘Sacred Games’ was the first original web series of India, directed by Anurag Kashyap and which was released on Netflix in 2018. The series is considered a significant shift in India’s digital entertainment landscape, which underlines the potential of web series and streaming platforms in India. Netflix’s co-chief executive, Ted Sarandos, recently opened up on the expectations of the Sacred Games platform, as it was their first major web series business in India. In an extensive conversation with Nikhil Kamath at his podcast, CEO Ted Sarandos is reminiscent of the early creative choices of the platform in India, especially ‘Sacred Games’, the first original web series of India. Sarandos noted: “It was very, very new (Sacred Games), but I didn’t realize that we were going to introduce a brand new kind of entertainment to a country of India.” The Netflix co-chief executive also acknowledged the broader learning curve of the OTT platforms in India. Despite the early battle, Sarandos said he believes in India’s great entertainment market capacity before introducing India’s first original website. “Early it took us a few years to make the product market fit right, including payment systems and all things. We knew that India would be a slower trip, but it is a wonderful price at the end of the day. At the moment you can see how fast Indian households are taking fixed broadband, big screen TV, growth-the-custom market in the next few years. Discuss the launch of the program and said: “If I did, I would have done holy games a few years later? Perhaps. “However, this statement did not sit well with Anurag Kashyap because he believes that his directors ‘sacred games’ have been launched at the right time. Anurag, who came to his Instagram handle, expressed his dissatisfaction and a screenshot of a report on Sarandos’s remarks on the Podcast of Nikhil Kamath. “He should have started with Saas Bahu … he would have done well. ‘Sacred Games’, with Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, was widely praised on his debut and was an important moment in India’s streaming landscape. continued.