The Family Man, Season 2 (2021, Raj Nidhimoru & Krishna DK)
Starting off the write-up with a bitter opinion about this show might manipulate one on entering into a passage, totally contradictory of one's unabashed likeness and affection for this show. It's just a heads-up for the collective uneven journey which ultimately inculcates into a somewhat satisfying voyage of a one-man army, simultaneously tackling and dodging secrets and lies, on a national and personal level.
The thing about the second season picking right up from the point where the prevalent cliffhanger from the first season ended on an abrupt blackout was ultimately a bummer. But that's a compliment and a feeble grievance at the same time. Former for the ones who want to go with the trendy flow of watching the sophomore season without touching the freshman one, and the latter for the greater good.
The political agitation was touched by a simple peck on the cheek, and it's obvious, given the strenuous attempt on treading carefully on the sensible areas and delivering a show, catering to a larger community.
But that's just a handful of thorns, dangling around a beautiful stick of rose.
Coming to the majority, the many goods of this show. Manoj Bajpayee as the suave trailblazer, wins all the points right from the frame he walks in. It'd always be deficient of the cherish and respect to the prosperity he possesses when it comes to the personification of any character on earth. He just nails all the places to pitch perfection. Rest of the cast, from Sharib Hashmi as the chucklesome, go-to confidante JK, to Priya Mani as the gloomy wife Suchi were efficient to the screentime.
But, it is the unexpected turn of actions from casting Samantha Akkineni as the big bad Raji that turns out to be the trump card. Totally contradictory to her otherwise mundane filmography, this might be the turning point in her career, where she can liberate her acting persona on all costs. Acutely impressive by the menacing screen presence and the stillness residing on her face is the easy takeaway of the show.
Parallel to the acting prowess, it's the technical supremacy that binds the pace and adrenaline rush jam-packed to the core. The outstanding one-take action sequences, taking a bigger leap from the first season, and the irresistibly pleasing cinematography and editing juxtaposed in between the bits and pieces of the drama and the thrills are the ones inducing a whole lot of anxiety everytime the tension is on the tip of the iceberg. The unsung heroes of this triumph.
Concluding the show to a highly relevant point is an another attempt in a vault to a larger crisis and unrest in political fields, though it might feel forced as an act of spoonfed propaganda. But that's still a dark, lurking shadow, impossible to decipher at this point.
To put it on an enclosure, the show trying to implicate a genre subversion from an espionage thriller to a comedy of errors is a wholesome treat to watch from the very first episode, and it doesn't lose any of it's sustaining momentum in the second season as well. If not anything, it's the uncomplicated parallelism brought in between the protagonist, Srikant Tiwari, and the antagonist, Raji that draws the audience to root for both of these characters as the coda to the battle for morality.
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