Last year, when the spectacular first season of Sacred Games opened to unanimous acclaim, it was underlined by a lingering criticism that the makers were baiting the idea of a strong woman without really following through with it.
Instead, it’s the beginning of the new season continuing the show’s pattern of underserving its women. This route (the second season has been adapted by Varun Grover, Dhruv Narang, Nihit Bhave, and Pooja Tolani) of conveniently using a female character as a crutch to serve the story would have been a minor annoyance, had it been an exception. Sacred Games omits her but more importantly, maintains an illusion of including her. It struck me as odd, this decision to have a dead woman be the eyes and ears of an investigation that she can’t be a part of anymore. Although Sartaj and Majid eventually locate the bomb, it is Anjali who technically solves the case. Even when they manage their biggest breakthrough – making contact with Shahid Khan (Ranvir Shorey), the mastermind behind the attack – it’s because of the numbers Mathur noted down in her diary.
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In it, an Intelligence Bureau officer informs a room full of cops that Anjali was investigating Hizbuddin, a terrorist organisation, which as we gradually learn, is behind the imminent nuclear attack on Mumbai that Ganesh Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) warned Sartaj Singh (Saif Ali Khan) about.Ī few episodes later, her diary is discovered and handed over to Sartaj, who relies almost exclusively on its contents to apprehend the men working for the terrorist cell. She is invoked in the initial minutes of “Matsya” – written by Dhruv Narang and directed by Anurag Kashyap and Neeraj Ghaywan – this season’s opening episode. Anjali Mathur (played in the first season by Radhika Apte) features in precisely zero scenes, and yet the ghost of the slain RAW agent haunts the second season of Sacred Games.
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