Special Ops trailer: 2001 Parliament attack leads to a 19-year manhunt in Neeraj Pandey’s Hotstar original. Watch video

The first trailer of Neeraj Pandey’s web series Special Ops is out and it is quite intense - much as the subject demands. Premiering on HotStar VIP, the series is based on investigations around the 2001 Parliament attacks in New Delhi.

Based on events of national significance spanning a period of 19 years, the action-thriller series features Kay Kay Menon, Karan Tacker, Divya Dutta, Sana Khan, Vinay Pathak among others.

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Kay Kay Menon leads the team that investigates the case for 19 long years before reaching a conclusion. The trailer opens with recreated visuals of the Parliament attack and soon, a meeting of officials reveals that six people were involved and the sixth person is yet to be arrested.

Cut to 19 years later, Kay Kay is still looking for the sixth man whom he considers to be the mastermind. The trailer shows intriguing details and is edited to give an intense feeling to the series that some suspect is based on terror mastermind Afzal Guru. The mastermind is named Ikhlaq Khan in the series.

Kay Kay said in a press statement, “Special Ops offers a very unique perspective to the role of Indian intelligence. Undercover agents are the true unsung heroes of our time. On the face of it they appear just like you and me – leading a normal life and perfectly blending in the crowd – but they are constantly on duty, protecting and serving the nation from any threats. Special Ops tries to bring forth the lives of these agents that try to capture the mastermind behind several unfortunate attacks.”

Neeraj added, “Special Ops is a story I thought of many years ago – it’s a big idea that required a lot of patience and research to pursue and develop. With newer and exciting formats of storytelling gaining prominence, we were able to build a fabulous team to create this larger than life story that strings together many real events from the past two decades. For the first time in the history of Indian entertainment, the 2001 Indian Parliament Attack has been recreated on celluloid. That’s just one of the many big moments from the show.”

Special Ops is being touted as an action-packed spy thriller series which Neeraj has co-directed with Shivam Nair and marks his digital debut. The series was shot across international locations, including Turkey, Azerbaijan, Jordan and India.

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