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Neeraj Pandey<\/a> did not set out to top Netflix<\/a>\u2019s global non-English charts. In fact, the Indian filmmaker behind \u201cTaskaree: The Smuggler\u2019s Web<\/a>\u201d \u2013 whose credits include \u201cA Wednesday<\/a>,\u201d \u201cSpecial 26<\/a>,\u201d \u201cBaby\u201d and the blockbuster biopic \u201cM.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story<\/a>\u201d \u2013 says he was not even aware such a category existed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re making a show, you\u2019re not thinking of all these things,\u201d Pandey<\/a> tells Variety during a conversation in London, where he was scouting locations for an upcoming film. \u201cI didn\u2019t even know that concept, that there is a non-English category.\u201d<\/p>\n

The genesis of \u201cTaskaree,\u201d a seven-episode…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Neeraj Pandey did not set out to top Netflix\u2019s global non-English charts. In fact, the Indian filmmaker behind \u201cTaskaree: The Smuggler\u2019s Web\u201d \u2013 whose credits include \u201cA Wednesday,\u201d \u201cSpecial 26,\u201d \u201cBaby\u201d and the blockbuster biopic \u201cM.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story\u201d \u2013 says he was not even aware such a category existed. \u201cWhen you\u2019re making a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2319452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2319451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Neeraj-Pandey-on-\u2018Taskaree-Franchise-Strategy-and-Why-2026-Could.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2319451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319453,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319451\/revisions\/2319453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2319452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2319451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2319451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2319451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}