The Family Man Season 2 Is Gripping And Entertaining
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By Linus Garg
First publised on 2021-06-08 05:25:56
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Srikant Tiwari (Manoj Bajpayee) has settled for a corporate job this time as he wants to spend time with his family and be a family man in the truest sense. But things are not working out for him - neither at the office nor at home. His heart is still with TASC and he keeps getting updates from his old partner JK Talpade(Sharib Hashmi). When he gets to know about an impending operation against the Tamil rebels from Sri Lanka in Chennai, he taps one of his old sources to help JK when he gets stuck.
Meanwhile, Srikant is still feeling the guilt of having killed Karim even though he was not a terrorist and having to tell lies to everyone for operational reasons. He convinces Milind (Sunny Hinduja) to join TASC again and bares his heart to Karim's wife. But when he is unable to take the crap at office anymore, he decides to join TASC again. Meanwhile, Suchi (Priyamani) takes him to a marriage counselor but Srikant loses his cool there too. Still he tries to follow the counselor's advice yet things go from bad to worse. Suchi also takes up her old job and once again comes in touch with Arvind. Suchi tells him she has moved on but he still loves her.
But the real action happens in Chennai where the Indian PM is slated to hold a summit meeting with her Sri Lankan counterpart in order to wean the Lankans away from China and perhaps grab a deal to build a port in the island country. But the Sri Lankan Tamils, led by Bhaskaran (modeled on Prabhakaran of the LTTE) do not want this to happen and send a team, headed by the ruthless and deadly Raji (Samantha Akkineni) to assassinate both of them by crashing a plane full of explosives in the hotel where the meeting is to take place. TASC is tracking them but they manage to keep a step ahead. Even when Raji is arrested, help from sympathetic local Tamils and a brazen attack on the police station where she is kept, allows the rebels to free her. TASC loses Milind in the attack. The sequence of the attack on the police station is brilliantly done.
Srikant also has to deal separately with Major Sameer (Darshan Kumar) and his henchman Sajid (Shahab Ali) as they have tied up with Bhaskaran and see Srikant as a stumbling block in their designs to assassinate the PM. They kidnap his daughter but Srikant returns to Mumbai to track her and kill Sajid. Meanwhile, his differences with his wife continue to grow but the scenes between them are the weakest point in the series as Suchi's intentions are never made clear.
Back in Chennai, as the D-day nears, TASC closes in to the rebels only to find that they have vanished once again and the plane is nowhere to be found. Srikant once again uses his mysterious informant and tracks down the rebels in time to prevent the assassination attempt.
The Family Man season two is much bigger in scale and has been shot slickly. The action sequences are natural and hence mind blowing. The acting lifts the series up by several notches. Manoj Bajpayee is excellent as always. He displays the right amount of disdain in the corporate job, seems earnest when trying to make amends with his family and comes into his own when back in the thick of action. Sharab Hashmi as JK is an ideal foil to Bajpayee. The use of local actors for the Chennai part is wise and that gives a genuine flavor to the story. But the real star of the series is Samantha Akkineni who gives Raji a deadly avatar. Her singe-minded devotion to the cause of her motherland and her training as a soldier are both outstandingly portrayed by Samantha. She is brilliant in the action sequences. Watch The Family Man season two. It is gripping and will grab your attention from the word go. There is a third season in the making and as per the visuals shown at the end, it will be about the alleged Chinese involvement in spreading the coronavirus and the action is likely to shift to Kolkata.
