Made in Heaven 2 comes back with a Mix of Drama, Humor, and Social Commentary
Made in Heaven 2 is back! Our favourite wedding planners are back, after making us wait for nearly five years, to plan the ‘band, baaja and baraat’ of Delhi’s high society with their endless hi-jinks. As an Indian, we all over the world are famous for weddings, Indian Big Fat Wedding.
No matter how big or small the wedding is, Drama will be the core of the wedding. and when I mention high society, What is a high-profile marriage if the Sabya-clad bride is not having a meltdown, or a family member is not being a huge embarrassment, or two samdhis are discovering long-buried feelings even as their children are being hitched?
Each episode introduces you to a new set of family and a new set of drama. The character development of each character makes it feel like you knew them from long ago. Both the strengths and weaknesses of Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti are on full display in the good-looking, high-on-drama-and-emotion season 2 of Made In Heaven, which picks up six months in time after the first season ended.
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Everything is so gorgeous and shiny, even the grime, that your teeth ache, but the skill with which Akhtar and Kagti and their collaborators (writers and directors Nitya Mehra, Alankrita Srivastava, Neeraj Ghaywan) detail their characters and fill them in with specificity, reflect a sense of inner knowledge and empathy, which makes you curious about what’s going on behind their perfect exteriors.
Stories vailed around the plant. even though you can’t take your eyes off(this case your mind off) the story. You can’t ignore the strong presence of the root which holds everything. Karan Mehra (Arjun Mathur) and Tara Khanna (Sobhita Dhulipala), working partners in their fledgling firm still struggling to break even, find themselves in a new office in crowded Chandni Chowk.
Courtesy of their loan-shark Ramesh Jauhari (Vijay Raaz) but lumber with a new boss in the shape of his wife Bulbul Jauhari (Mona Singh), who, in turn, straddles home and office and a complicated personal life with aplomb.
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The character of Tara and her millionaire husband Adil Khanna (Jim Sarbh) is in the midst of protracted divorce negotiations, with Adil’s lover Faiza Naqvi (Kalki Koechlin) trying to keep a cool head while having his child in her womb.
Another interesting middle-class character Jaspreet aka Jazz (Shivani Raghuvanshi), the West Delhi girl trying to unpack the unspoken codes of South Delhi coolth, is struggling to find the right balance with the company’s videographer Kabir (Shashank Arora): are they on or off?
Apart from Mona Singh, there are a few more additions in this season. This is a strong and positive representation of the LGBTQ community and their challenges. New employee Meher Chaudhary (Trinetra Haldar, a trans person herself) is a living example of ‘diversity and inclusion’.
The writer made sure she is not just a representative of a much-maligned and ignored segment but a human person with a beating heart. Ishwaak Singh is here too, as the handsome chef Raghav Sinha who develops a soft spot for Tara, whipping up interesting dishes (there’s a lot of food on many tables in this series, but no one really digs in: do the rich only toy with their food?) and holding her hand through multiple crises.
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Speaking of crises(Spoiler Alert!), all the shaadis-in-production here are constantly on the verge of being cancelled, leading characters to ask, several times over: is this wedding even happening? So much so that you wonder why the two people in question are even considering it as an option.
But one of the things that Made In Heaven does very well is to put the ultra-rich families of the bride and groom front and centre: it is entirely true that in most parts of India, it is not just two individuals who get into a ‘Rishta’, it is the ‘Parivaars’. If you are looking for something Dil se Indian and Productionlwise foreign content – ‘Made in Heaven – 2‘ is a highly recommended series. If you’ve already watched it, mail us and let us know what’s your take on this series.
Made In Heaven 2 cast:
Sobhita Dhulipala, Arjun Mathur, Shivani Raghuvanshi, Shashank Arora, Vijay Raaz, Mona Singh, Trinetra Haldar, Ishwaak Singh, Kalki Koechlin, Jim Sarbh, Sanjay Kapoor, Neelam, Sameer Soni
Made In Heaven 2 creators:
Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti
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