Acclaimed filmmaker Anubhav Sinha’s much anticipated series ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’ is coming soon to Netflix and most possibly this August.
On 24 December 1999, Indian Airlines flight IC 814, en route from Kathmandu to New Delhi, was hijacked and taken to Kandahar in Taliban-governed Afghanistan. The hijack lasted seven days; while passengers and crew suffered, some great officers back home struggled to answer the ‘who’ and ‘why’ – answers that were beyond the obvious and extremely complex. But the people had to be brought back home safely. The clock was ticking as the negotiations forged through; ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’ follows the story of those seven days which became the longest hijack in Indian history.
‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’ is directed by Anubhav Sinha (‘Mulk’, ‘Thappad’, ‘Article 15’, ‘Ra.One’) who has co-created and co-written the series with Trishant Srivastava with a story by Srivastava and Adrien Levy.
‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’ stars an ensemble cast of Vijay Verma, Patralekhaa, Pankaj Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Arvind Swami, Dia Mirza, Amrita Puri, Anupam Tripathi, Kumud Mishra, Manoj Pahwa, Kanwaljeet Singh, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Sushant Singh, Aditya Srivastava, Rajeev Thakur, and Yashpal Sharma.
A Matchbox Shots production, ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’ is produced by Sarita Patil and Sanjay Routray and will launch globally on Netflix this August.