The former Indian Air Force officer returns to that defining chapter as the creator and showrunner of Netflix's Operation Safed Sagar, a cinematic tribute to the IAF
streaming on Netflix from August 7, feels less like a career milestone and more like a dream fulfilled for its showrunner, creator and former Indian Air Force personnel Kushal Srivastava.
Life, however, took an unexpected turn. After serving in the Air Force, Srivastava left the service in 2006 to pursue filmmaking, apprenticing under filmmaker J.P. Dutta before directing . Yet the story that had first inspired him never left him.
Remembering their supreme sacrifice
Military dramas often pride themselves on authenticity, but demanded something deeper than technical accuracy. Srivastava spent years speaking to Air Force veterans and the families of officers who fought in the conflict. He calls the series a soldier’s tribute to two greats of the IAF, former Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa and fighter pilot Squadron Leader Ajay Ahuja, who was martyred in the Kargil War. “They are my real-life heroes.”
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