Tanaav Season 2 Cast/ Actors:Â Manav Vij, Arbaaz Khan, Arslan Goni, Satyadeep Mishra, Gaurav Arora, Amit Gaur, Shashank Arora, Ekta Kaul, Danish Husain, Rajat Kapoor, Ahmad Kabir Shadan, Kabir Bedi, Zarina Wahab.
Tanaav Season 2 Director: Sudhir Mishra & Eeshwar Nivas
Tanaav Season 2 Release Date: September 06, 2024
Tanaav Season 2 Available On: Sony LIV OTT Platform
Tanaav Season 2 Released/ Available In Languages: Hindi
Tanaav Season 2 Number Of Episodes: 12
Tanaav Season 2 Episode Duration: 45 minutes (approx each episode)
Tanaav Season 2 Critic Review:
If you cosied up to the colours, culture and characters embedded in the first season, watch six episodes of the next instalment. Six more will be rolled out a month later to round up Season 2.
Some points to tick.
One, the premise. While Israel, Palestine, Gaza and Hezbollah had their own equations (which too must have changed after the tragic happenings of October 7, 2023), the intrigues of terrorism and separatism in Kashmir have been wrung dry in film after film, show after show. There is therefore fatigue in the ambush and ambience.
Two, the culture. Indian agent Kabir Farooqui (Manav Vij) of the Special Task Force visiting his kids and staying over with his ex-wife and her current husband. Kabir still drawn to Dr Farah (Ekta Kaul) who’s married to her cousin Junaid (Shashank Arora), the new Harkat leader. A female agent on the Indian side who’s just lost her fiancé, sleeping with his colleague who’s come to condole her. The casualness of these relationships that looked fine in Fauda, seem oddly out of character in the Indian context.
Three, whatever the ground realities of track two and backchannel relations, the camaraderie between Indian bureaucrat Mallik (Rajat Kapoor) and his Pak counterpart where one just saunters over to the other side for tea, sympathetic conversations and swapping of information, take away the tension of Indo-Pak relations in the valley. Especially when anti-India sentiments are harboured and being brewed by some of the Pak family members. The humanising of terrorist’s families attempting to draw sympathy for pregnant wives and distraught mothers of assassins, also doesn’t hold fresh appeal for the average Indian viewer. In fact, the emphasis on their familial bonds takes the tension and terror out of the narration. Directors Sudhir Mishra and E Niwas may try to differentiate between Harkat, ISI and the Pak army but out here they’re viewed as one entity – terror- sympathising anti-India elements who foster separatist forces.
However, if you settled down comfortably with all of the above in the first season, the six new episodes throw up a new foe looking for vengeance against India with the STF bewildered over the identity of Al-Damishq alias Fareed Mir (Gaurav Arora).
The death of commander Vikrant (Arbaaz Khan) and an attack on Kabir and his father Haider Farooqui (Kabir Bedi), make the war more personal. The grief of the STF when they lose a member and the warmth they share come through well.
There are a handful of sequences that are clever. Like a fauji who unwittingly suspects something’s amiss simply because someone doesn’t know the name of the flowers he’s transporting. Or the manner in which Junaid is monitored even though he’s in a burqa.
But, despite the entry of new faces like Uday (Satyadeep Mishra) who steps into Vikrant’s shoes, a disturbing feeling lingers – that Sudhir and Niwas make no attempt to accurately Indianise the show by setting it in a Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370. Dialogues in Kashmiri (along with Punjabi and Hindi) may have been put in for authenticity, but they are not comprehensible.
For sure, the presence of Kabir Bedi, Rajat Kapoor, Ekta Kaul and Shashank Arora lends weight to the characters. But, although it ends on a cat-n-mouse note, the overall narration doesn’t leave the imprint of a gripping tension that’s never been told.
Tanaav Season 2 Watch Or Not: If you liked the first season, you’ll be comfortable with the new instalment. But there’s nothing earth-shatteringly unseen in the valley this time around.
Tanaav Season 2 Review Score Rating: 2.5 out of 5 (i.e. 2.5/5)
Tanaav Season 2 Official Trailer:
Tanaav Season2 Official Trailer (Credits: Sony LIV)
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