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New Delhi, Don’t rest on the achievements of the first season and start from scratch. Series producer Sudeep Sharma says this is what the team of “Paatal Lok” said to each other as they kicked off the second season of the show centered on a seasoned Delhi cop and his tough investigation of a high-profile murder.
The first season of “Paatal Lok” became one of the most talked about shows when it premiered on Prime Video in 2020. The second season took four years to make and became a reality after all stakeholders took time off a year in advance to shoot it.
Season two brings back Inspector Hathiram Chaudhary and his subordinate Imran Ansari who is now his senior.
“When we started working on ‘Paatal Lok 2,’ we said, ‘Okay, we’re starting a new season and now the onus is on us not to mess it up. That was the first thing we told everyone. And one should not rest on the achievements of the first season and start from scratch,” Sharma told PTI in an interview.
Season two, which will premiere on January 17, is directed by Avinash Arun Dhavare, who also helmed the first season.
Sharma, whose writing credits include “Udta Punjab”, “NH10” and “Sonchiriya” and another successful series “Kohra” on Netflix, is the brain behind the series as a producer.
He said that the team wants to bring the same kind of honesty and hard work with which they performed in the first season.
“I said to the writer’s room, ‘Okay, let’s forget what happened in the first season, let’s remove all the success stories, memes, dialogue and characters that became popular. It was almost as if we were We were writing a new show with some characters who survived from the first season, and we’re going on another journey with them.”
Covid made the decision to do another season difficult. All three went on to work on their individual projects, with Sharma working on “Kohhra”, Ahlawat on “An Action Hero”, “The Broken News”, “Jaane Jaan” and “Maharaj”, and Dhavare on “School of Worked on “Lies” and “Three”. Of Us”, which also stars Ahlawat.
According to Sharma, commercial considerations were never a factor behind the “Paatal Lok 2” decision.
“We knew it wasn’t coming from a place of ‘Oh, because the first season was successful, so we want to do a second season. We wanted to work on it even before the first season was released and became popular. It There was always that deep desire that Jaideep, Avinash, I, even the rest of the team, all the HODs, we all had within ourselves,” said Sharma.
The trailer of the new season shows Ansari and Chaudhary investigating the murder of a political leader from Nagaland.
Sharma said, “I wanted my work to take me back to all the places I visited in my childhood and see these people and characters as if I knew them before but have now moved away from them.”
He was keen to explore the “changing dynamics” between Choudhary and Ansari in the new season.
“The first season was about this newbie cop coming in, training under Hathiram Chaudhary, and then helping each other deal with that difficult case and a very difficult year of their lives. But Ansari was always, in my mind, Child Hathiram was bright and old was a fox.
“When we were writing season one, if there was ever a season two, it would have been Ansari’s journey and ‘What if the rookie cop is now the boss?’ It was very interesting to play,” he added.
Be it the first season of “Paatal Lok” or the equally acclaimed “Kohra”, Sharma has always been interested in exploring stories from the police perspective without stereotyping them.
“I admire them for the hard work they do sometimes even when everything is against them, and Hathiram embodies this doggedness and resilience. There’s a very old-fashioned feeling about it that you can tell from my father’s generation.” Found among the people of.
“I want to portray another side of them instead of the standard cookie-cutter corrupt cop, or this other version of this macho and superhero cop. They’re no fun to me because they’re so far from reality. Reality, to me, is survival. In gray instead of black and white.”
The way the first season hit the popularity charts was a surprise for Sharma, who thought he had created a “niche show”.
“Whenever we’d be in doubt and one of us would say, ‘Well, isn’t this too subtle or complicated?’, my standard answer would be, ‘Don’t worry, even if no one watches the show, it’s OK. Because let’s make the show we want to see’. That’s the standard directive for me when I’m getting into something.”
Sharma said that he is deliberately slow in his stories because he considers it a responsibility that involves the blood, sweat and tears of many people. He also believes that writing, despite being a lonely process, has enriched him as a person.
“I love being involved in my stories and making sure I didn’t make any missteps first because I was in a hurry to tell the story. It’s an incredible responsibility and privilege to be able to do what I’m allowed to do. Author “And the artist. This can’t be taken lightly. I’d rather do five good things than do half-assed things.”
Produced by Clean Slate Filmz, in association with Eunoia Films, the eight-episode “Paatal Lok 2” is produced and executive produced by Sharma. It also stars Tilottama Shome and Gul Panag.
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