Saare Jahan Se Accha was released on August 13, 2025 on Netflix and ever since then, it has been buzzing among fans. Fans as well as critics are lavishing praise on the makers and actors for bringing such espionage-thriller with RAW vs ISI as the main theme.
Directed by Sumit Purohit, Saare Jahan Se Accha is an espionage thriller that is set in early 1970s timeline revolving around India's secret service RAW trying to derail Pakistan's nefarious attempt to make a nuclear bomb under then Pakistan PM Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
Since you have landed on this page, True Scoop assumes that you have already watched the Saare Jahan Se Accha True Story or Saare Jahan Se Accha Real Story. Moreover about real life Fatima Khan, a Pakistani journalist who turned a RAW Spy-
As mentioned by the makers, Saare Jahan Se Accha is a fictional story inspired by true events that took place between India and Pakistan during the early 1970s.
The Netflix showcase, Bollywood actor Pratik Gandhi playing the character of Vishnu Shankar, an undercover RAW agent who gets posted in Islamabad by then RAW Chief RN Kao. Vishnu has one mission- to identify Pakistan's nuclear facility and destroy it by hook or by crook.
The character of Fatima Khan is played by actress Kritika Kamra. Fatima is a Pakistani a journalist and editor at the Haqeeqat newspaper. Fatima is among those rare journalists who are critical about Bhutto's nuclear dream. Hence, she continuous wrote against Bhutto's secret nuclear program.
The reason why she was not arrested by ISI was because she was the niece of Munir Khan, a nuclear scientist heading Pakistan's nuclear program in the Netflix series.
However, Vishnu uses Fatima's hate for nuclear against Pakistan and successfully turns her into a RAW asset.
While the exact identification about real life Fatima Khan has been kept under wraps, True Scoop tried to dig into list of journalists who were quite critical about Bhutto's nuclear dream.
A few of them were- Tariq Ali, a Pakistani-British writer and activist who has been a vocal critic of Bhutto's policies and the political landscape of Pakistan. Additionally, Fatima Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's granddaughter, has also written critically about the Bhutto family's legacy and its impact on Pakistani politics.
For the unversed, father of Pakistan's atomic bomb program was Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan aka AQ Khan. AQ Khan's daughter Dina is also a journalist.
AQ Khan Foundation reads, "Dina Khan is the dynamic daughter of the late Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan—an iconic scientist, philanthropist, and national hero. With a distinguished academic background in Social Anthropology and a wealth of experience in non-profit management, Dr. Dina Khan is now at the helm of the AQ Khan Foundation, dedicated to advancing healthcare, education, and socio-economic development across Pakistan."
Disclaimer: True Scoop does not intend to say that these journalists were RAW agents, it has just reported what is available in public domain.
