'Undekhi' season 2 review: The series will keep you glued
'Undekhi' season 2 review: The series will keep you glued
'Undekhi' (SonyLIV, 10 Episodes)
Directed by Ashish R Shukla
Rating: ***
More of the same, and yet at the top of the game. That just about sums up the second season of 2020’s well-played cat-and-mouse crime thriller about a super-rich wedding, murder and the affluent arrogance of a family that thinks crime is the only way to stay wealthy.
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It’s a world where people get shot randomly, remorselessly. The patriarch of the family(Harsh Chhaya over-the-top) is a drunken lout whose empirical viciousness is manned and powered entirely by his wild nephew Rinku(Surya Sharma, brilliant).
Rinku remains as interesting in Season 2 as he was the first time around. He is rough, rude, violent and unstoppable. Yet he gives us fleeting glimpses of something less toxic especially when his wife Muskaan(Shivangi Singh) is around. Muskaan is another character to look out for. She looks homely but loves guns especially when they are in use and more especially when she is using them.
And the way Muskaan participates in shootouts with her violent husband gives a completely unexpected twist to the till-death-do-us-part theory of marital togetherness.
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The women are, in fact, exceptionally aggressive in Undekhi. There is one on the run, a dancer who has tremendous survival instincts in the jungles. Then there is Teji(Aanchal Singh) married to the most peaceful heir of the violent Atwal family, Teji is rapidly learning the ropes of the illicit business.
And then there is Saloni(Ayn Zoya) a television journalist not averse to blackmailing and extortion.
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A lot of the writing here involves physical action. And yet a sluggishness seeps into storytelling that luckily doesn't storm into a state of exhaustion. Looking at the brighter side, the characters are never allowed to get lazy, although the writing occasionally does.