BENEATH THE MASK

Pratik Gandhi on his role as a morally grey spy in period thriller Saare Jahan Se Accha

- —Suhani Singh

Five years ago, Pratik Gandhi had his career breakthrough with Scam 1992. He's been a busy bee since, casting a spell on both streaming and the big screen (Madgaon Express, Do Dooni Chaar). Which makes it all the more surprising that it's only now that he's making his Netflix series debut with Saare Jahan Se Accha. “We were both waiting for something to work on together,” says Gandhi, who found the “perfect script” in the 1960s-set spy thriller. For Tanya Bami, Netflix India's series head, it was about time. “If we had our way, we would have had Pratik come on to a series way sooner.”