IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack

Series Details:

Cast & Character:

• Naseeruddin Shah as Cabinet Secretary Vinay Kaul, IAS (based on Prabhat Kumar)
• Pankaj Kapur as Vijaybhan Singh, Minister of External Affairs (based on Jaswant Singh)
• Vijay Varma as Captain Sharan Dev, head pilot of IC 814 (based on Captain Devi Sharan)
• Dia Mirza as Shalini “Sha” Chandra, Editor of India Headlines
• Arvind Swamy as DRS, Secretary of MEA
• Manoj Pahwa as Mukul Mohan, Additional Director of IB
• Kumud Mishra as Ranjan Mishra, Joint Secretary of RAW
• Aditya Srivastava as V K Agarwal, Head of RAW
• Patralekha Paul as Air Hostess Indrani
• Amrita Puri as Nandini Martin, Reporter of India Headlines newspaper
• Dibyendu Bhattacharya as Abhijeet Kumar, senior officer in the MEA
• Rajiv Thakur as Ibrahim Akhtar alias “Chief” (hijacker)
• Pooja Gor as Simar Dev, Sharan’s wife
• Kanwaljit Singh as J P Kohli, Director of IB
• Anupam Tripathi as Ram Chandra Yadav, RAW agent in Kathmandu
• Yashpal Sharma as Sanjay Mehta (cameo appearance)
• Sushant Singh as Lt. General Ravi Shankar, Director General of NSG (cameo appearance)
• Aditi Gupta Chopra as Air Hostess Chhaya
• Diljhon as Sunny Ahmed Qazi alias “Burger” (hijacker)
• Karan Desai as First Officer Sunil Sachdeva, secondary pilot of IC 814
• Girish Dhaneja as Flight Engineer Rajendra Nangia, IC 814
• Harminder Singh as Shahid Akhtar Sayeed alias “Doctor” (hijacker)
• Kunal Chopra as Zahoor Mistry alias “Bhola” (hijacker)
• Kamal Batra as Sakir alias “Shankar” (hijacker)
• Mu’azzam Bhat as Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, Foreign Minister of Afghanistan
• Asif Ali as Usmani
• Meer Sadhwani as Nabibullah Barkazai
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee as Prime Minister of India (archival footage)

Storyline:

When IC 814 gets hijacked on its way to Delhi, hundreds of lives are at stake as the country faces its longest and most alarming aviation crisis.

About Series:

IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack is a Hindi crime thriller mini-series that dramatizes the 1999 hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814. Directed by Anubhav Sinha and written by Adrian Levy and Trishant Srivastava, the series is produced by Sarita Patil and Sanjay Routray under Matchbox Shots and Benaras Mediaworks. The ensemble cast includes Naseeruddin Shah, Pankaj Kapur, Vijay Varma, Dia Mirza, and Arvind Swamy.

Announced in February 2024, the series debuted its trailer on August 19, 2024, and premiered globally on Netflix on August 29, 2024.

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