Apharan S1 succeeded because of three reasons - 1. The interesting exciting premise with twists and turns 2. The desi setup with retro bollywood songs as BGM 3. The terrific yet hilarious dialogues and narrative.
Now coming to S2, Apharan shifts to international level and the day I saw its trailer I knew it would misfire and it did!
That feel that you are watching Apharan is completely gone. Just using retro bollywood BGM in international location doesn't suit the series at all! I was missing the rusty lanes of Haridwar a lot. The impact went down due to this.
Another reason why S2 goes down further is the overuse of that "Koi gaali dera hai" lady (forgot her name so I had to mention her dialogue lol). Hrr "koi gaali dera h" dialogue is overused to the point that her character becomes really irritating this season. In S1, she had a smaller role and just enough to make her look hilarious but now she becomes too irritating with that "gaali dera hai" BGM further irritating you .
Similarly , Dubey's character becomes irritating too they are just unnecessary additions to the story.
The direction too is not upto the mark. Often you feel things are moving in fast forward manner not allowing any scene to breathe. Needed Siddharth Sengupta himself to direct it.
However, thankfully Siddharth Sengupta manages to rescue this season with his story and screenplay . It's an interesting exciting story yet again with exciting twists and turns . It is enough to hold on to your attention till the end despite so many raging flaws that at one point I even started to ignore them. Performance by Arunoday is once again top class with his narrative that can excite only the young generation not really your parents.
Overall, this season would have been another gem had it been set in India , had they not overused some cringy irritating dialogues and had they kept Siddharth as the director as he was in S1.
