Although it gets quite rocky in the middle, thanks to some scene stealers by both Singhs, we are back to being invested in no time. The series doesn’t really introduce a new angle to the aforementioned ideas-It has worked well thus far-but the comical aspect of the narrative, alongside crisp timing, makes the viewer stay on for more. Beneath all those odes to retro songs as BGS and the direct references to the larger-than-life Bollywood version of the angry young man, ‘Apharan’ season two is a hilarious take on filmy supercops, ekdum desi style! The show is 11-episode long and the storyline cannot be that plain. Under the pretext of helping his addict partner, the intelligence agency tricks the mammoth softie into taking on an undercover investigation: plan is simple, go to Serbia and bring international criminal Bikram Bahadur Shah (BBS) home. So, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) plays him on that. Anyone who knows this giant cop knows his only living weakness is that cute little stoner thing. We are ushered into the narrative with a very high Ranjana (Nidhi Singh) relishing some greens with her hippie-ish friends, only to be piggyback-ed away by her 6’5 tall husband, Rudra. The debut season had grown on us slowly, ‘Apharan 2’, however, is attack-mode-on from shot one. If the quintessential notion of sabka-pyara policeman on silver screen had manoeuvred the alleys of digital space sooner, then ‘Apharan’ wouldn’t have been half as fun.
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