

27 minSeason 1 • Episode 9
LatestElection day at VNU where all students cast their vote. Victory speech at VNU by the winning presidential candidate. Press conference held at JLD to make an important announcement.
Tandav is the coming together of different worlds under the gamut of politics. It is a dramatic take of the powerplay between people at the highest level where they get overthrown by others to secure their position. Young and upcoming student politicians are also featured and we get to see where their future is headed in this dark abyss of politics.
Acting
Dimple Kapadia's eyebrow acting could run a government.
Direction
Ali Abbas Zafar frames Delhi's corridors like a predator's den.
Costume
White kurtas so crisp they deserve their own credit.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references Shiva's cosmic dance of destruction-creation, mirroring how every political death births new alliances. The show courted actual controversy when real student leaders claimed it defamed campus activism.
Saif Ali Khan prepared by studying footage of dynastic politicians — specifically how they modulate charm into threat mid-sentence. The JNU-inspired campus was shot at a real Delhi University college during semester break.