Aditi Pohankar still from that season 2, (manners: youtube,
Throw: Aditi Pohankar, Vishwas Kini, Shivani Rangol, Sam Mohan and Suhita Thatte
the director: arif ali
Rating: Two and a half stars (out of 5)
He came back. The question is, has she evolved beyond being the puppet that she was in the hands of her Mumbai Police crime branch superiors and criminals that she was made to honeytrap in Season 1?
Police constable Bhumika Pardeshi (Aditi Pohankar) has indeed made some progress in the sordid, dangerous and dark alleys of the Mumbai underworld. This is manifested in the fact that, over 7 episodes of that season 2She grows rapidly in confidence, gains something akin to a self-confident air, begins to enjoy the ‘material’ benefits of the job assigned to her and even registers an important first that heralds. This proves to be a turning point in the game. – Upgrade.
Another question: Is the change the land goes through? that season 2 Share something that he lacked in the past? It really does. Bhumi stumbles upon a truth about her estranged ex-husband – this restores her faith in itself and helps her gain the upper hand.
season 2 The Netflix series, which gave Pohankar a major career boost in 2020, works out a little better than the first outing as her encounter with the protagonist (Kishore Kumar ji) in the den of the criminal mastermind now pushes her back and forth where He started with
Produced and written by Imtiaz Ali, directed by Arif Ali and Lens by Amit Roy, that season 2 begins with explosive action—a real carnage—before it settles into static storytelling modes, amplifying and deploying the components the screenwriters designed to steer the land-hero story in a new direction. has done.
The show has several scenes of extreme violence (in many of them, the land is on the receiving end) and several action-packed police raids on criminal hideouts and drug warehouses, resulting in high body counts, but the duration of seven episodes. The focus remains entirely on the land, his police masters, his big, long-term plans, and the sex workers involved in the slippery and bottomless modern Mephistopheles who make him believe that killing someone you love, Gives you “real power”.
Will the land sell its soul to the devil? He is really behind the power. She is no longer a lower middle-class girl from a chawl in Mumbai who was pushed into an assignment that was a mile away from the whole world and her league. He realizes that he is on a one-way street. She hunkers down to learn how to find her way as an undercover agent.
The provocative outfit of a streetwalker she donned to bust a group of cocaine smugglers, led by none outside her circle of closest associates, puts her at grave risk, in person or in photographs puts and exposes him to a world where existence demands the tricks of a hunter.
She still lives with her mother-in-law (Suhita Thatte), who lives with her long absence from home, and her sister Rupali (Shivani Rangol), with whom she has a serious disagreement that threatens to fall Snowball permanently. .
As Bhumi develops personal ambitions and begins to respond to the orders of her own mind, her loyalty is in danger of wavering and yet she manages to maintain her composure and relents from her ravages. Hides the gradual changes in the psyche and influences its actions.
The transformed woman is still looking for support from the men around her, but some of her agency is restored to her due to the fact that she has come a long way from the starting point of the mission, also to the formidable The hero is able to string along.
to that extent, that season 2 Represents a marked break from the past. The power dynamics within the police force – between the role Pardeshi and his immediate bosses, ACP Jason Fernandez (Vishwas Kini) and the new crime branch chief, DCP Khurshid Alam (Hyderabad theater veteran Mohammad Ali Baig) – and the play he plays the protagonist. plays with. One look at fulfilling the desires of his body and the demands of his mission liberates him to a great extent.
Seasons follows Land as she navigates the risks that are rooted in her impulsive moves that separate her from the man she reports to – ACP Fernandez. The latter calls her his “greatest achievement” and encourages her to “do her best”, even though she is no longer quite sure what she is doing.
At one point, Bhumi is mentally and emotionally ruined after an act she would not have done. “It’s not me,” she tells ACP Fernandez. He is clearly not comfortable with physical types of violence.
that season 2 Less fiercely adopted the norms of a psychological thriller than Season 1 of the series. It instead enters an investigation into the mind of an unstoppable criminal and a woman who makes a dangerous and impossible contact with him as he may be trying to force her to change his fate and end years of oblivion. Sees opportunity. The rejection that he has endured while being gaslit is blaming himself for his plight.
Clearly, Bhumi Pardeshi has acquired distinctive layers due to her absence in Season 1. The contrast between who he is and who he must become in order to survive a tough big-stakes game gives the story a certain degree of tensile energy. However, her encounter with the protagonist sinks into a repetitive loop that weighs down the narrative.
Of course, there’s a lot of skin shown here to spice things up, but these sex scenes are unlikely to dial up the sizzle factor. When Land jumps into bed with the ‘enemy’, the scenes, when they are not cheesy and groaning, are too static and self-conscious, devoid of genuine passion and fire. The blame probably lies not so much with the actors as with the way sexual encounters are conceived and executed.
Aditi Pohankar gets into the skin of Bhumika Pardeshi with complete confidence and perfectly captures the complexities of a woman. Kishore Kumar casts the arch-villain toxicologically by casting the mold of a philosopher with the Sangfreud of an arrogant rebel who is convinced of the justness of his cause.
The role of Vishwas Kini allows him to transcend a range of emotions that screen cops rarely come across with striking distance. He makes the most of the opportunity.
Decision: that season 2 An Aditi Pohankar show in all respects, it is much more than the first time. However, that doesn’t help the show break free from the limitations of the male gaze.