‘India’s Top Gun’ Is Netflix’s Most Ambitious Local Production

‘India’s Top Gun’ Is Netflix’s Most Ambitious Local Production Netflix Inc. is turning one of India’s most politically defining chapters into its biggest production in the country yet, betting that a spectacle on the scale of Top Gun can strengthen its position in the world’s most populous market as a premium video platform. The six-part Operation Safed Sagar depicts the Indian Air Force’s role in the 1999 Kargil War with Pakistan, a conflict that continues to shape relations between the nuclear-armed neighbors. Produced with “unprecedented” access to Indian Air Force bases, filming at altitudes of nearly 16,000 feet and relying on more than 1,200 local visual-effects artists to create 50 minutes of aerial combat sequences, Netflix India said the project was its largest operational undertaking and contributed more than $24 million to the Indian economy.