STORY This alternate season picks up right from where the first one had left off, with one gang leader, Shaukeen, being excluded from Hussainpur by IPS Officer Naveen Sikhera (Mohit Raina), and he now has his sights set on Dedha family’s gang. Will he be successful in his thing of transubstantiating Muzaffarnagar from a‘ crime capital’to a‘ peace capital’?
REVIEW Created by Harman Baweja, Vicky Bahri and Rahul Prakash,‘Bhaukaal’is inspired by real- life incidents and the trip of IPS Officer Navniet Sekera, who rose to elevation as a‘super bobby’after eradicating numerous gang lords from Uttar Pradesh. When it comes to culprits and bobbies trying to maintain control, the story will really be filled with holocaust, gang wars, hijackings, raiding, gaalis, ordnance and thingamabob. And the effect,‘Bhaukaal 2’kickstarts with indeed further brutality and a butchery Season 2 of‘Bhaukaal’picks up from where the first one ended. Following the assassination of Shaukeen, one of the gang’s leaders, his gal Nazneen (Bidita Bag) and MP Aslam Rana ( Late Major Bikramjeet Kanwarpal) platoon up with the Dedha sisters — Pintu (Pradeep Nagar) and Chintu (Siddhanth Kapoor). Director Jatin Wagle, who alsoco-wrote this crime drama with Jay Sheela Bansal and Akash Mohimen, continues to add layers to the subject of how crews serve, how politicians exploit them for their own gain, how the police operate, and how their hands are frequently tied to followprotocols.However, also the new season clearly ups the figure, If you have seen season one and enjoyed its dark narrative. Still, the overall prosecution of an interesting premise is a slow burn. The cat-and- mouse chases get old after a while, and the action does not begin until the sixth occasion. Nevertheless, there’s some relatability with the promoter Kaptaan (‘ captain’, as the locales, relate to Naveen), it’s easier to empathise with his pain of seeing people die in front of him and being helpless to stop it because culprits are always one step ahead of them. Eventually, there is the grand climax (when the lead confronts the antagonist), which makes it worth watching.
The congested bylanes of UP’s politically unpredictable municipalities formerly again add their rustic flavour and literalism. DOP Sumit Samaddar’s cinematography effectively brings them to life. The discourses, peppered with obscenities as is customary, are generally said by everyone. As a result, nearly every statement begins and ends with a gaali As super bobby Naveen Sikhera, Mohit Raina continues to lead the show with his heroic numbers. But he does n’t take it to the coming position to make the part memorable. Rashmi Rajput, who plays Naveen’s woman Pooja, has a veritably important part in boosting his morale. Naveen’s core hassle specialist platoon — Bhaati (Digambar Prasad), Balram (Firoz Khan), Vinod (Amitt Singh), Maruti (Ravishankar Pandey), Pawan (Rohan Verma) — helps him achieve his charge of making the megacity crime-free.
As Dedha sisters, Pradeep Nagar is striking as merciless Pintu and Siddhanth Kapoor is persuading as Chintu. Their primary thing is to take control of Muzaffarnagar with the watchword’Bhaukaal macha do ( intimidating people).’And for that, they’ve no bounds, and they’re to condemn for the commotion in the megacity.
Bidita Bag’s Nazneen has a meatier part this time around, as shown right from the veritably first scene of the series. Whether she’s using obscenity words or ruling the men- dominating cabal business, she impresses in every frame. Late Major Bikramjeet Kanwarpal is excellent as MP Aslam Rana, who talks lower but speaks more with his bare presence. Gulki Joshi as crime intelligencer Neha had a more prominent part in the former season than this bone.
Just like the former season, the series starts on a predictable note with one cliché after another. It takes a while for this 10- part drama to get into the groove, but this combination of a gritty and horrible tale of power and politics gradationally draws you in. While analogous crime dramatizations set in the same UP outback ( similar as’Asur’,’Mirzapur’, and others) have been seen ahead,’Bhaukaal 2’is a welcome addition due to treatment given to the real- life incidents it’s grounded on. So, if you like violent crime dramatizations and Mohit Raina, this is a must- watch.
