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.
Creator
Ali Abbas Zafar
Saif Ali Khan
Samar Pratap Singh
Dimple Kapadia
Anuradha Kishore
Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub
Shiva Shekhar
Sunil Grover
Gurpal Chauhan
Sarah-Jane Dias
Ayesha Pratap Singh
Kritika Kamra
Sana Mir
Bhavna Choudhary
Preeti Singh
Vikhyat Gulati
Roshan Thakur
Kritika Avasthi
Richa Avasthi
Amyra Dastur
Ada Mir
Dino Morea
Prof. Jigar Sampath
Gauahar Khan
Maithili Sharan
Kumud Mishra
Gopal Das Munshi
Neha Hinge
Garima Deswal
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.
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