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Hindustan Times
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Liked Saare Jahaan Se Accha? It's time for Salakaar and Special Ops!
Pratik Gandhi-Sunny Hinduja's Saare Jahaan Se Accha is now streaming on OTT. With the theme around Independence Day, the series explores India's conflict with its neighbouring country, Pakistan. There are various OTT series and films that tap into the patriot within you. Right from the show with a very similar theme aka Naveen Kasturia's Salakaar to the ever binge-watchable Special Ops franchise, featuring Kay Kay Menon in the lead role, there's a variety of content on OTTplay Premium that you are bound to love if you liked watching Saare Jahaan Se Accha. Naveen Kasturia in Salakaar, Kay Kay Menon in Special Ops 2 Projects to stream on OTTplay if you liked Saare Jahaan Se Accha Naveen Kasturia-Mouni Roy's recently released show Salakaar has a theme that is very similar to Saare Jahaan Se Accha. Both are about the India-Pakistan conflict. While Kay Kay Menon's Special Ops seasons 1 and 2 will remain forever iconic, Special Ops 1.5 also holds a special place in people's hearts. Special Ops season 1 tackled the attack on Parliament house in Delhi, India. Season 2 was based on the human vs AI concept. Special Ops 1.5 told the story of the lead character Himmat Singh, played by Kay Kay Menon. Pankaj Tripathi's Criminal Justice franchise remains one of the most loved. The recently released series A Family Matter has connected most with people, especially when it comes to the ending of the show. Sushmita Sen had left one-and-all surprised when she delivered a thriller like Aarya. Revolving around a political backdrop, Aarya is gripping in various moments. John Abraham's Tehran follows an Indian spy who is caught up in a different country, in the middle of a war-like situation. This soldier, abandoned by his own country, witnesses hell and more in the film.
Indian Express
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Saare Jahan Se Accha review: Sunny Hinduja and Suhail Nayyar steal the show, which peters off towards the end
It's not the fault of this series that it comes exactly a week after the one which had the same theme. Well, almost. Salaakar is about scotching Pakistan's nuclear ambitions with the help of canny footwork by Indian spies : this week's new show on Netflix, Saare Jahaan Se Accha, created by Gaurav Shukla and directed by Sumit Purohit, is exactly about the same thing. The intent may be the same but the treatment, thankfully, is vastly different: the beyond-terrible Salakaar, with Naveen Kasturia leading the charge, reminds you of a comic-book with none of the fun of the genre; this Pratik Gandhi starrer, on the other hand, takes things seriously, and that's a good thing, more or less. Counter-intelligence officer Vishnu Shankar (Gandhi) is tasked with the most important thing of his career by R&AW chief RN Kao (Rajat Kapoor). 'Intel', a word much thrown around in this series (the writing credits are shared between Abhijeet Khuman, Kunal Kushwah, Bhavesh Mandalia, Ishraq Shah, Shivam Shankar, Gaurav Shukla, Meghna Srivastava) suggest that Pakistan President Bhutto is obsessively going after building a n-bomb, and has roped in the fanatic ISI chief Murtaza Malik (Sunny Hinduja) to that end. The building of the time and place is one of the better things about the series, from clothes to cars to rotary phones and their distinctive rings, except all phones working all the time on both sides of the border is a stretch, given how much time they stayed dead: if the creators really are being true to the period, they would have included at least one instrument which refuses to work at a crucial juncture. Vishnu duly arrives in Islamabad, as an Embassy staffer (the classic route of spies, according to pop culture), along with his newly-acquired Bengali wife (Tillotama Shome). And begins, with the help of a trusty colleague (Ninad Kamat), casting his net wide, corralling double agents, newspaper columnists, and sundry others, to get to his objective. The details of the Pokhran blast, in 1974, with the active support of then PM Indira Gandhi, and the relentless pushing of the R&AW chief, are in public domain. What this five -episode series does is to give us the backstory, inspired enough by reality to have the courage to use actual names of both people and places, with lashes of creative license and filmi drama : a love-story between an India 'jasoos' ( pronounced 'jsoos', just the way a Punjabi would) and a pretty Pakistani girl, the sister of an officer ( Kapil Radha, leaving a mark) never feels more like a space-filler. There's mention of the Libyan dictator Gaddafi, Mossad chief Ben Adler, 'HGN reactors', the Gadani port where the deadly cargo would land, indicative of the research that's gone into the show. But while attempts have been made to keep everything as realistic as possible, we hear people saying things like, 'hamaare mulk mein mausam se jaldi PM badal jaate hain' by the lovely Pakistani journalist (Kritika Kamra) , or even 'sadly, yehi hamaari life hai'. Sadly? Really? And 'baby steps in the world of darkness'? These feel dialogue-y, not spoken-in-the-moment lines. Watch Saare Jahan Se Accha trailer here: In this solid ensemble, two actors– Sunny Hinduja and Suhail Nayyar– steal the show so comprehensively that everyone else has to struggle for our attention. Pratik Gandhi doesn't have a showy role; to operate within the shadows means that you have to underplay, and to his credit he does that well enough, whether he is trying to pour water over his troubled domestic life– he is more wedded to his job rather than his wife– or swirling vodka with a stunner. You wish there was more meat to that relationship; certainly Shome's character needed more to do than serve sondesh and act suspicious. Both Hinduja as the fearsome ISI chief Murtaza, and Nayyar, as the street-smart mover and shaker who knows how to keep everyone happy, add sass to the staid, but the bumps and contrivances keep distracting from the main act. The best thing about the handsomely-mounted show is that it steers clear of vicious jingoism while waving the flag. You wish it didn't peter off towards the end. Saare Jahan Se Accha cast: Pratik Gandhi, Rajat Kapoor, Tillotama Shome, Sunny Hinduja, Anup Soni, Kritika Kamra, Suhail Nayyar, Kapil Radha, Ninad Kamart, Atul Kumar, Hemant Kher, Avantika Akerkar, Rajesh Khera Saare Jahan Se Accha director: Sumit Purohit Saare Jahan Se Accha rating: 2.5 stars
India Today
13-07-2025
- Science
- India Today
Magical journey onboard Space Station: Shux's homecoming message
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, the Axiom-4 Mission pilot, is preparing to return to Earth after spending nearly two-and-a-half weeks onboard the International Space Station (ISS). In his farewell message on Sunday, Shux, as he is fondly called by his crewmates, thanked his colleagues as well as the ISS crew for making his stay at the orbiting laboratory memorable. "It was a magical journey onboard the ISS," Shux said. He also spoke about the experiments the Axiom-4 crew carried out on the Space Station and their implications for mankind. Taking a leaf out of his ideal Rakesh Sharma's book, Shux said that from space, India looks confident, fearless, ambitious, proud, and above all, Saare Jahaan Se Accha. Shubhanshu Shukla reached the ISS along with his Axiom-4 crewmates on a Falcon-9 rocket.
