'India's Top Gun:' Netflix's New Massive, Six-Part War Series

'India's Top Gun:' Netflix's new massive, six-part war series

For Netflix, India is not just an important market for gaining subscribers, it’s now an “indispendible” investment. A new six-part series called “Operation Safed Sagar” is now streaming—and it’s said to be “a spectacle on the scale of ‘Top Gun.'”Also Read: One of the world’s largest-ever tank battles was between India and PakistanTo produce the new series, Netflix got unprecedented access to the Indian Air Force, filming air combat sequences at …

Operation Safed Sagar: Netflix's ambitious Indian production

Discover Operation Safed Sagar, Netflix India's ambitious production detailing the 1999 Kargil War and its impact on India's cinematic landscape. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Who is BS Dhanoa? The real-life IAF officer played by Jimmy Shergill in Operation Safed Sagar

Birender Singh Dhanoa was the commanding officer of the Indian Air Force’s No. 17 Squadron, popularly known as the Golden Arrows, during the 1999 Kargil War.

Did Pervez Musharraf really insult Vajpayee, backstab Nawaz Sharif? What's real in Netflix's Operation Safed Sagar

Netflix's Operation Safed Sagar presents Pervez Musharraf, the former Pakistan President, as the villain of Kargil War, a depiction seeped in reality.

Netflix’s 'Operation Safed Sagar' Cast And Character Guide

Netflix’s new war drama series, Operation Safed Sagar, celebrates the fearless contributions of the Indian Air Force, and specifically the Golden Arrows Squadron, during the Kargil War in 1999. A detailed fictionalized presentation of such an elaborate historical event naturally calls for a large cast, with each of the squad members meticulously fleshed out and made convincing. Operation Safed Sagar has done a great job in the casting department…