The Broken News Season 2 review: Intriguing follow up powered by remarkable performances

The Broken News Season 2 review

Visit a media house and you will find he place having all the ingredients of a good absorbing drama, entertainment. The excitement, thrills, pressures (at present its election time so stories about parties, politics, politician, rallies, etc will be flooding the editorial office of the media house before getting bombarded on your television sets).

Coming back to ‘The Broken News Season 2’ which is about the people behind and front of those ‘stories’ that we see on television and how ‘fake’ and ‘real’ they are.

The second season of the absorbing season one of ‘The Broken News’ continues from where it left. Radha Bhargava (Shriya) is facing humiliation in prison but thankfully it doesn’t last vey long and she is out on bail (how this happened is not shown). Out on bail, Radha wants to destroy Dipankar Sanyal (Jaideep) and that becomes her prime agenda. The editor of chief of Awaaz Bharati – Ameena Qureshi (Sonali) is the only on standing on journalism ethics. As the debate between ‘fake’ news and ‘real’ news intensifies, strange enemies and friends are found along with shocking stories and disclosures.

As ‘The Broken News Season 2’ progresses, the writer Sambit Mishra and director Vinay Waikul cover the above aspects. We see Awaaz Baharati chasing serious stories that concerns the public in general while Josh 24x7 is determined to project a clean image of the ruling CM and searches for stories that have entertainment to ensure good TRP’s.

Like a pro media house, ‘The Broken News Season 2’ caters to pot-boiling and methodical plotting in its quest for realism. There ae stories/crises coming easily to the lead characters. A line said by Ameena Qureshi (Sonali) fits in perfectly “ hum ac room mein baith ke judgement dete rehte hai’ humein pata hi nahi groubd reality kya hai”. She says this after she goes on filed after a long hiatus.

As a thriller, drama that probes the morality and questions the ethics of journalism nowadays ‘The Broken News Season 2’ has the punch. More ground reporting could have made it much better.

Performance

Jaideep Ahlawat as Dipankar Sanyal gets extra layers in season 2 and he excels one again.

Sonali Bendre Behl as Amina Qureshi gets a bigger responsibility in the second season as she has to remind her friend and colleague Radha about journalism ethos and also secretly work on an important story. Sonali Bendre Behl gives an outstanding performance.

Shriya Pilgaonkar as Radha Bhargav this time is on a vengeance and as the wounded tigress Shriya takes on her arch rival Jaideep superbly. Her agenda brings her in confrontation with her friend/mentor Sonali and those sense are really charged up. Shriya gets extra layers like her rival Dipankar palyed by Jaideep and the actress gives a brilliant performance.

Akshay Oberoi as Ranjit Sabarwal (Ronnie) is a new twist in season 2 and he is fabulous.

Strong support comes from Taaruk Raina, Indraneil Sengupta, Faisal Rashid, Sanjeeta Bhattacharya, Jay Upadhyay, Geetika Vidya Ohlyan, Sandesh Kulkarni, Dinker Sharma, Suchitra Pillai and Srikant Yadav.

The Broken News Season 2 – final words

‘The Broken News Season 2’ is a well-deserved sequel that gives justice to season 1 and takes the debate forward.

Going with a deserving 3.5 stars

The Broken News Season 2 is streaming on ZEE5 from May 03, 2024.