When Netflix India unveiled its 2025 slate in February, one of many exhibits that caught consideration was Pratik Gandhi`s Saare Jahan Se Accha. Set within the Seventies, the spy thriller — which additionally stars Tillotama Shome, Rajat Kapoor, and Sunny Hinduja — revolves round an Indian spy who is distributed to Pakistan to cease it from changing into a nuclear drive. Sources point out that with a piece of the sequence set in Pakistan, director Sumit Purohit and his staff needed to recreate components of the nation in India.
A supply mentioned, “Greater than half the story is about within the neighbouring nation. Because the unit couldn’t journey to Pakistan, huge units reflecting Karachi had been made in Mumbai and Chandigarh. One was constructed on the Golden Tobacco Manufacturing facility in Vile Parle, Mumbai, and a Karachi market was recreated at a neighborhood market in Chandigarh.” Sejal Shah and Bhavesh Mandalia, who not too long ago backed Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s Costao, function the sequence’ producers and showrunners. “It’s certainly one of Netflix India’s greatest sequence, with a finances of round Rs 100 crore,” added the supply.
Saare Jahan Se Accha comes as the most recent providing from Gandhi, who’s on an upward streak with Madgaon Categorical (2024), Do Aur Do Pyaar (2024), and Dhoom Dhaam earlier this yr. However in contrast to these initiatives, the spy thriller will see him step into a gray function — one thing that he excels in, if his breakthrough present Rip-off 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story (2020) was any indication. “The makers wanted somebody who might give a powerful efficiency, and Pratik match the invoice. He’s taking part in a fancy character — beneath the duvet of being a diplomat, he’s an R&AW [Research and Analysis Wing] agent who stops Pakistan’s nuclear program. The function has been impressed by completely different real-life Indian spies. The present depicts the interval when late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was on the helm, and RN Kao was heading R&AW, as India and Pakistan had been attempting to edge out each other within the nuclear arms race.”
Initially, the six-episode sequence was titled For Your Eyes Solely. What introduced on the rechristening? The supply added that it was a mutual resolution between the makers and the streaming big. “All of the stakeholders felt Saare Jahan Se Accha was a greater match because it’s desi and displays the present’s patriotic theme.”