SPECIAL OPS

SPECIAL OPS

Neeraj Pandey’s Special Ops started streaming on Disney+ Hotstar just a few days before the lockdown was announced. Starring Kay Kay Menon, Karan Tacker, Vinay Pathak, Devya Datta , Meher Vij among others, the show was instantly loved by the audience. The show follows Menon’s Himmat Singh who is a R&AW agent who believes that there is a single entity behind all the major terrorist attacks.

If the first episode of Special Ops makes you nostalgic for Special 26 (2013) or you get flashes of A Wednesday (2008), then don’t worry. You are not the only one. The mammoth, eight-part show with 45-minute-long episodes will also make you second guess, wait is this is Bard of Blood (2019), or no wait, it’s Family Man (2019). Neeraj Pandey’s maiden venture into the web space has all the ingredients from his universe: a stellar ensemble cast lead by an alpha-male actor, Kay Kay Menon in this case, a sepia-tinted old world feel, the puzzling gamut of politics/greed/international terrorism and the antics needed to pull off a heist.