Operation Safed Sagar Cast/Actors: Mahesh Manjrekar, Jimmy Shergill, Siddharth, Dia Mirza, Abhay Verma, Mihir Ahuja, Taaruk Raina, Prajakta Koli, Vinay Pathak, Adil Hussain, and others
Operation Safed Sagar Director: Oni Sen
Operation Safed Sagar Production House: Matchbox Shots and Feel Good Films
Operation Safed Sagar Release Date: 7 August, 2026
Operation Safed Sagar Released/Available In Languages: Hindi, and available with multi-language audio tracks and subtitle options
Operation Safed Sagar Available On: Netflix OTT Platform
Operation Safed Sagar Number of Episodes: 6
Operation Safed Sagar Runtime: 45 minutes (Approx Each Episode) – 4h 6m
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The Chief from Delhi (Mahesh Manjrekar) looks out of the aircraft window at the vast expanse of white Himalayan snow where Indian soldiers fight an impossible war against an enemy who has the advantage of firing at them from a height. He declares it ‘Safed Sagar’, that’s what the Indian Air Force operation will be called when it scrambles to provide air support and cover fire for the men on the ground.
Most Indians know that in 1999, while Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif held peace talks with visiting Indian PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, General Musharraf was putting into action a sinister plot in Kargil. Musharraf’s army men dressed like Mujahideen and speaking Pashtu like them, were quietly occupying salient peaks in the Kargil sector, breaking the Simla Accord with India. Inside Pakistan, it was a classic example of the rivalry between Islamabad and Rawalpindi before Musharraf overthrew Sharif and installed martial law.
For India, it was a treacherous attempt by its neighbour to take over Kashmir.
What most Indians don’t know is how the Indian Air Force became the eyes and the protective arm of the Indian Army as troops on the ground were being gunned down by an enemy perched above. What we also haven’t known so far is that no air force in the world could’ve bombed with such precision from such a height or scaled it up with low altitude night bombing.
How the Golden Arrows squadron pulled it off has been put together by half-a-dozen writers (Sandeep Jain, Barun Kashyap, Abhijeet Singh Parmar, Kushal Srivastava, Nikhil Ravi) with impressive camerawork by Satyajit Pande.
Meet the boys and their seniors at Bhatinda Air Force Station.
Boisterous beginnings.
Friction melting into friendship and ‘team-ship’.
Strict training by Squadron Leader Ajay Ahuja (Siddharth).
A budding romance.
Families with rules when the men go on sorties.
Their anxieties. Support systems.
Loss. Grief. Guilt.
And an enemy who has walked into India.
Those who fear jingoistic patriotism may relax. Director Oni Sen serves a whole package with unseen training methods (the bike and transport formation is a highlight), interpreting hazy aerial pictures, calculated sorties for precision bombing at high altitude, the frustration of error, an unfactored US saboteur, and men battling their own conscience.
Spread over six episodes, Sen serves it all including the Indian side receiving mutilated bodies of its soldiers while Pakistan disowned its men.
There are moments that bring a lump to the throat and nail-biting ones as the squadron works to perfect its bombing.
Tony Dhanoa (Jimmy Shergill) leads the show with crispness and kindness. Calling his squadron leader ‘Ahuje’ gives the equation a warm familiarity. Siddharth as Ahuja has a terrific role as training officer and fighter pilot and he leaves his presence long after he’s no longer on screen. The entire cast is well picked including Vinay Pathak as Nawaz Sharif. But it is Manu Rishi Chadha as General Musharraf who springs a surprise and earns a salute.
When Ahuja is awarded a Vir Chakra and the real officers who were a part of Operation Safed Sagar are introduced at the end, there is a feeling of fulfilment that there is now a cinematic document of their exemplary work.
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Operation Safed Sagar Web Series Review Score Rating: 3.5 out of 5 (i.e. 3.5/5)
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