# Bard of Blood (2019)

> A former Indian spy returns from exile to lead an off-book hostage rescue that drags his buried past back into the open.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/77130

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 7
- Episode runtime: 44 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: action, drama, thriller
- Created by: Gaurav Verma, Bilal Siddiqi
- Network: Netflix
- Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Sobhita Dhulipala, Shishir Sharma, Danish Husain, Abhishekh Khan, Sohum Shah, Ajay Mahendru, Vikram Arora
- TMDB rating: 6.7/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8069036/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: tense, gritty, propulsive, brooding

## Synopsis

Bard of Blood (2019) is a Hindi-language Indian spy thriller series created by Gaurav Verma and Bilal Siddiqi for Netflix, produced by Red Chillies Entertainment. Emraan Hashmi plays Kabir Anand, a former Indian intelligence operative who is pulled out of years of quiet isolation after a disastrous job in Baluchistan has left him carrying old guilt. Sobhita Dhulipala co-stars as Isha Khanna, a fellow operative whose loyalties and ambitions complicate every move, while Shishir Sharma and Danish Husain fill out the shadowy networks of handlers, informants and rival figures around him. The engine of the show is simple and urgent: Kabir wants to bring back captured people, but he must do it without official backing, with every contact a possible betrayal and every border crossing a risk. Across a single seven-episode season, the story moves through safehouses, back-channel negotiations and tense infiltrations, with each episode tightening the net. The series is a one-season limited run with a serialized arc rather than standalone cases. Its tone is grim, tense and propulsive, with flashbacks dropping hints about the earlier mission that shaped Kabir. Fans of Tehran and Special Ops will find resonance in its moral ambiguity, its geopolitical stakes and its portrait of an agent trying to outrun his own history.

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