Mumbai,
Feb
29
(PTI)
The
December
24,
1999
hijack
of
the
Indian
Airlines
flight
is
getting
a
series
treatment
at
Netflix
with
Anubhav
Sinha
attached
as
creator
and
director.
The
show
is
titled
"IC
814:
The
Kandhar
Hijack" and
stars
Vijay
Varma,
Patralekha,
Pankaj
Kapur,
Naseeruddin
Shah,
Arvind
Swamy,
Dia
Mirza,
Kumud
Mishra,
Manoj
Pahwa,
Amrita
Puri,
and
Anupam
Tripathi.
According
to
the
makers,
the
series
revolves
around
"the
24th
December
1999
hijacking
of
the
Indian
Airlines
flight
IC
814
which
was
en
route
from
Kathmandu
to
New
Delhi.
It
was
taken
to
Kandahar.
The
hijack
lasted
seven
days
and
while
the
crew
and
passengers
suffered,
officers
back
home
tried
to
find
a
solution
to
bring
them
home."
Sinha,
known
for
films
such
as
“Mulk”,
“Article
15”
and
“Bheed”,
said
it
was
a
responsibility
to
be
as
authentic
as
possible
while
working
on
the
series.
"When
I
started
doing
research,
almost
everyone
remembers
a
few
things
about
the
hijack,
and
what
all
happened
during
the
process.
I
realised
it
is
a
very
complex
story
and
a
lot
of
things
happened
in
those
seven
days
and
not
many
people
know
about
it.
"I
met
a
lot
of
officers,
passengers,
the
pilot,
and
there
was
a
lot
more
to
share.
We
have
put
it
all
in
the
show…
We
had
to
make
it
factually
correct
and
yet
dramatic
and
engaging...
It
was
an
interesting
process,"
the
director
said
at
the
Next
on
Netflix
event
here.
Sinha
added
Monika
Shergill,
Vice
President,
Content,
Netflix
India,
had
promised
him
that
the
shooting
of
the
series
will
conclude
within
eight
months
but
it
went
on
for
two
years.
Shergill
described
the
show
as
a
"thrilling,
propulsive
rendition
of
the
longest
hijacking
in
the
history
of
aviation
in
the
world".
"When
we
started
out
on
this
story,
it
took
us
a
while
to
get
down
to
actually
making
it
in
the
right
way.
It
was
a
journey
for
us
because
it
is
such
a
journalistic
sort
of
piece,
but
it
is
such
a
large
story
of
human
interest
and
it
had
to
be
told
in
the
most
dramatic
and
thrilling
fashion,"
Shergill
told
PTI.
Dibyendu
Bhattacharya,
Pooja
Gor,
Kanwaljit
Singh,
Aditya
Srivastava,
Sushant
Singh,
and
Yashpal
Sharma
also
round
out
the
cast
of
"IC
814:
The
Kandhar
Hijack".