Sacred Games By Vikram Chandra Summary
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Introduction
Sacred Games By Vikram Chandra Summary - Sacred Games is a book by Vikram Chandra published in 2006. Upon release, it
received critical acclaim and subsequently won the Vodafone Crossword Book Award. Sacred Games combines the ambition of a 20th-century social novel with a cops-and-gangster detective
thriller.
Sacred Games By Vikram Chandra Summary - Sacred Games delves into many emotionally charged worlds of contemporary India, in particular the spidery links between organized crime, local politics and Indian espionage that lie below the shimmering surfaces of its economic renaissance. Money and corruption form the golden thread. In interweaving narratives and voices, Sacred Games takes on even larger themes, from the wrenching violence of the 1947 partition of India to the specter of nuclear terrorism.
Summary
Sacred Games By Vikram Chandra Summary - Sacred Games runs mostly on two parallel tracks, one
winding through the criminal underground of Mumbai (then Bombay) in the 80s and
90s and the other through a tense modern-day hunt for the explanation behind a notorious
dead gangster's bizarre final words.
The only Sikh police
inspector in the city is seemingly invited to pursue Mumbai's most legendary
crime lord, Ganesh Gaitonde. Gaitonde reveals a harrowing timeline and a few
hints of the identity of his collaborators before taking his own life.
Sacred Games By Vikram Chandra Summary - From there, we explore the forces that shaped Gaitonde into the dark
figure he became and follow the police inspector as he tries to put his own
life in order, solve a crime, and possibly save his city. Through interweaving
narratives and voices, Sacred Games takes on even larger themes, from the
wrenching violence of the 1947 partition of India to the specter of nuclear
terrorism.
Publication history
The book earned Chandra a rumored million
dollar advance from HarperCollins. The initial print run was
200,000 copies. However, sales were disappointing and it is estimated that the
advance lost $655,750.[3] It was critically praised, winning the
2006 Vodafone Crossword Book Award.
Series
adaptation
Sacred
Games By Vikram Chandra Summary - Netflix, in partnership with Phantom Films, announced Sacred Games, a Netflix Original series based on the
novel in June 2016. The series, primarily in Hindi, was shot on location in
India, and released worldwide on Netflix on 6 July, 2018. The series
features Saif Ali Khan as cop Sartaj Singh, Nawazuddin Siddiqui as gangster Ganesh
Gaitonde and Radhika Apte as RAW analyst Anjali Mathur. The series consists
of eight episodes of an hour each directed by Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane.
Awards and nominations
- 2007: Awarded Salon Book Award
- 2007: Nominated National Book Critics Circle Award
- 2006: Awarded Hutch Crossword Book award
About Novelist
Vikram Chandra (born 23 July 1961) is an Indian-American writer. His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book.
Early life
Sacred
Games By Vikram Chandra Summary - Chandra was born in New Delhi in 1961. His father Navin Chandra was a
business executive. His mother Kamna Chandra has
written several Hindi films and plays. His sister Tanuja Chandra is
a filmmaker and screenwriter who
has also directed several films. His other sister Anupama Chopra is
a film critic.
Chandra did his high school
education at Mayo College in Ajmer, Rajasthan. He attended
at St. Xavier's College in Mumbai and, as an undergraduate student, transferred
to Kenyon College in the United States. Chandra
felt isolated at Kenyon so he transferred to Pomona College, Claremont, California, where he
graduated with a B.A. magna cum laude in English. He attended film
school at Columbia University, leaving halfway through to
begin work on his first novel. He received his M.A. from The Writing Seminars
at Johns Hopkins University in 1987. He
has taught at George Washington University, and lectured
at University of California, Berkeley.
Career
Sacred
Games By Vikram Chandra Summary - Red Earth and Pouring Rain (1995), Chandra's first novel,
was inspired by the autobiography of James Skinner - the Irish Raja of
Hansi in Haryana, a legendary nineteenth-century Anglo-Indian soldier.
It was published in 1995 by Penguin Books in
India; by Faber and Faber in the UK; and by Little, Brown in
the United States. It won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best
First Book and the David Higham Prize for Fiction. The novel
is named after a poem from the Kuruntokai,
an anthology of Classical Tamil love poems.
Love and Longing in Bombay (1997),
a collection of short stories, was published by the same houses as Red
Earth and Pouring Rain. It won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book
(Eurasia region) and was short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize. In 2000, Chandra served
as co-writer, with Suketu Mehta, for Mission Kashmir,
a Bollywood movie.
It was directed by his brother-in-law, the director Vidhu Vinod Chopra, and starred Hrithik Roshan.
Sacred Games By Vikram Chandra Summary - Sacred Games (2006) is Chandra's most
recent novel. Set in Mumbai, it features Sartaj Singh, a policeman who first
appeared in Love and Longing in Bombay. Over
900 pages long, Sacred Games was one of the year's most anticipated
new novels. It had been the subject of a bidding war amongst leading publishers
in India, the UK, and the US. It has also been adapted as a web television series by Netflix.
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code,
the Code of Beauty (2014) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism).
Personal life
Chandra is married to the writer Melanie Abrams. They both teach creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley. Chandra currently divides his time between Mumbai, and Oakland, California, United States. He has two daughters, Leela and Darshana.
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