She is still processing her husband’s murder, and taking care of her children by herself: A teenage son who is forced to grow up too soon and becomes her confidante, her school-going child who actually saw the murder happen, and of course the cliché of the wayward teenage girl. The “Russians” are also after the 300-crore drug stash that she thought she had handed over in S1.ĭodging multiple adversaries each deadlier than the other, Aarya must also deal with pressing home matters. Inspector Khan is back and promises to keep her and her 3 children safe, but after an attempt at her life, Aarya doesn’t know whom to trust. Of course, if you’ve watched Season 1, you’ll know that she belongs to a ruthless ‘Godfather-esque’ clan where her father kills her husband over ‘business-matters’. ![]() Not with Sushmita Sen anyway.Darker and more sinister than Season 1, Aarya 2 starts off with Aarya being called in from Australia to testify against her family. There's backstabbing and bloody drama aplenty but something as simple as a worn-out Aarya's relief on seeing her old help return to resume duties shows the power of a genuine gesture when living under constant threat and uncertainty.įor keepers of law, her lifestyle and privilege is a source of deep-rooted revulsion while her own misconstrue her survival as conceit.Īs the endgame approaches, moral lines are blurred, ethics are compromised, loyalties are shifted and a character's prophetic words - Zindagi kismat se nahi, faislon se banti hai return to haunt him at the hands of a desperate dame-turned-deadly devi.Īarya isn't quite done yet. Things look more likely when a distracted cop breaks up with his boyfriend over the phone.Īarya wears its dysfunctional milieu with elan but doesn't forget the practicality in details. ![]() There's no respite for anyone through the course of its eight episodes bubbling in anxiety.Įven a semblance of normalcy feels like a façade, like when Aarya serves her son's classmate's father a bowl of khichdi and some small talk. #ARYA 2 MOVIE SERIES#Veer (Viren Vazirani), the oldest, is forced to shoulder a responsibility he is neither ready for nor desired.Īarya's youngest, Aditya's (Pratyaksh Panwar) growing weapon fascination runs parallel to his suppressed trauma of watching his dad gunned down while his killer continues to interact with his mom.īut it's her daughter Arundhati's (Virti Vaghani) arc - a favourite trope among Hindi Web series of late - of a solitarily suffering, reckless teenager with a penchant for trouble that hits the series' shrillest note.Įchoes of Arundhati's destructive behaviour can be found in Hina (Sugandha Garg), Aarya's distraught and pregnant sister-in-law, wrecked by her partner Sangram's (Ankur Bhatia) unreliable ways and rash decisions.Īarya's fallen-from-grace father Zorawar (Jayant Kriplani), his guilty right-hand-man Daulat (Sikander Kher), her secrets-harbouring mum Rajeshwari (Sohaila Kapur), their biggest rival Shekhawat (Akash Khurana) who lost a son (Manish Choudhary) in their infighting, his ruthless henchman Sampat (Vishwajeet Pradhan), a mean-spirited public prosecutor (Dilnaz Irani), small fry cops (Geetanjali Kulkarni) and security guards looking for a personal gain and business-minded Russians contribute to the relentless storm in her life. The kids are not alright and take comfort in their deceased daddy-s musical memories - it must be said though, Aarya 2's fetish for old Bollywood songs borders on overkill. Often, its ceaseless gloom feels heavy to bear (or binge watch) as if Madhvani and his battery of writers want us to share Aarya's burden. ![]() #ARYA 2 MOVIE FULL#It's a year-and-a-half since Aarya's husband (Chandhachur Singh) was shot in broad daylight, dragging her and her brood into her unscrupulous family's crooked dealings and closet full of dark secrets.įrom realisation to resolve, urgency has given way to second thoughts and scheming evoking the ire of previously accommodating cops (Vikas Kumar) even as friendships are tested and networking with criminals becomes a way of life.īesides a magnificent Sushmita, Madhvani's adaptation of the Dutch television series Penoza's greatest triumph is how he roots drug cartels and mafia networking within Rajasthan's high society and brings out the real and surreal as well as tragic in cold blood.
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