Made In Heaven Season 2 review: A beautiful concoction of celebrations and extravagance with pain and pathos

Made In Heaven Season 2 review: A beautiful concoction of celebrations and extravagance with pain and pathos

What: Made In Heaven Season 2 - With more characters, there is more chaos, more madness and messiness. 

Made In Heaven Season 2 review

Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti’s Made in Heaven which had hit the OTT in 2020 during the pandemic was a hugely appreciated and widely accepted show due to its powerful content. The Tiger Baby productions has been coming up with unique and diverse stories that’s striking a chord with the audience and catching its pulse. Overwhelmed with the popularity of the show, the makers propel it forward with a plethora of characters who come across as the high-profile clients for Tara and Karan, played by Sobhita Dhulipala and Arjun Mathur respectively, and shed insights about marriage and relationships.

In season 2, acclaimed directors like Neeraj Ghaywan (Masaan), Alankrita Srivastava( Lipstick under my Burkha) and Nitya Mehra (Baar Baar Dekho) helm the narrative that introduces important characters – like Mona Singh and Vijay Raaz who play a couple with  two sons, and Ishwak Singh, a grounded chef  who plays the love interest of Tara and a transgender woman, Meher played by the real life trans doctor-turned-actor Trinetra Haldar.

With a wider gaze at Tara and Karan’s turbulent personal lives owing to the impending divorce of Tara and Adil (Jim Sarbh), financial challenges, depleted client roster and a crumbling bungalow for the office space and Karan’s addiction to drugs and momma-issues, the show navigates a myriad of characters and their fairy-tale weddings, articulated by the planners – with the base team expanded by addition of a videographer (Shashank Arora), a newbie, Jazz (Shivani Raghuvanshi) and an accountant BulBul played by Mona Singh.

Cantered in the grand and glitzy weddings of Delhi and its posh people, the makers harp on prejudices which are as deep-rooted as traditions. Bringing on to table the urban sensibilities around relationships, the show pierces into the feelings of two individuals whose kids are now about to get married, but the question lies in whether they are in love with each other. While polygamy is observed in Islam, does it really pervade through the pathos of the wife (Dia Mirza) whose husband (Parvin Dabbas) is getting a second wife into the grand mansion. A lesbian couple wonders if their marriage can take place without their families’ support.

Made in Heaven 2 is blessed with some terrific and delicious performances that lingers in your mouth like a savory. Radhika Apte, in one of the most powerful parts, plays a Dalit who is a celebrated award-winning scholar getting married to a guy from the upper class. Apte rankles the traditional norms of the groom’s family who want a Buddhist ritual for their marriage. The collision is smartly juxtaposed with the chaos of a young boy who is suspended from the school for molesting a girl along with his friends and is subsequently coming to terms with his mom’s (Mona Singh) second marriage.

Mona makes a compelling case of a defiant yet vulnerable woman with a terrible past, soaking her character with a rare degree of real and authenticity. She is undeniably the best thing in the series that sees appearances by Sanjay Kapoor, Sumit Suri, Neelam, Vikrant Massey, Neil Bhoopalam and Pulkit Samrat, and even a cameo by Anurag Kashyap.

The show, however, belongs to the terrific Shobhita – rendering a surefooted performance as Tara who raises the stakes with a revengeful pursuit with Adil (Sarbh, as charming as ever).