Neeraj Pandey did not set out to top Netflix’s global non-English charts. In fact, the Indian filmmaker behind “Taskaree: The Smuggler’s Web” – whose credits include “A Wednesday,” “Special 26,” “Baby” and the blockbuster biopic “M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story” – says he was not even aware such a category existed.
“When you’re making a show, you’re not thinking of all these things,” Pandey tells Variety during a conversation in London, where he was scouting locations for an upcoming film. “I didn’t even know that concept, that there is a non-English category.”
The genesis of “Taskaree,” a seven-episode…
