Special OPS (2020)
- Original title
- स्पेशल ऑप्स
- Genre
- thriller television series
- Country
- India
- Length
- 2 seasons, 15 episodes
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Rating
- 8.3 of 10 from 63 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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How it feels
A senior Indian intelligence officer leads a team of five agents on a mission to find the mastermind behind a series of terrorist attacks in India.
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What happens
Special Ops is an Indian Hindi-language action espionage thriller series for Hotstar Specials created and directed by Neeraj Pandey, with Shivam Nair serving as a co-director. Pandey also produced the series under Friday Storytellers, a division of his production house, for providing content to the digital medium. It stars Kay Kay Menon as Himmat Singh, a senior officer of the Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW), forms a team of five agents, in order to track down a person, who is the mastermind of the terror attacks which took place in India. Neeraj Pandey eventually conceptualised the idea of the script in late 2010, with the series eventually scheduled to be aired on Star Plus, which however did not materialise. He later revived the project in August 2019. Shooting of the series took place in India, and some scenes were filmed in Turkey, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Azerbaijan. The cinematography and editing were handled by Sudheer Palsane, Arvind Singh and Praveen Kathikuloth, whereas Advait Nemlekar composed the background score. Special OPS was released through Hotstar on 17 March 2020. The series received positive response from critics. It also received eight nominations at the inaugural Filmfare OTT Awards, winning three of them. Pandey had transformed the series into a franchise, with the second instalment Special Ops 1.5: The Himmat Story released on 12 November 2021. The second season was released on 18 July 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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