Rating : ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Genre : Reality
Year : 2022
Season: 2 Episodes: 8
Director : Uttam Domale
Cast : Neelam Kothari, Maheep Kapoor, Seema Sachdev, Bhavna Pandey
Kid rating : PG
I had recommended this series in my What to Watch on Netflix column way back in September 2018. Now that Season 2 is out will recommend it too – just as binge-able although a little more flighty than the previous one.
Just like the first season, here too we follow the lives of the four friends. There is Maheep Kapoor, wife of actor Sanjay Kapoor. Neelam Kothari was one of the top actresses of the 1990s. There is Bhavana Pandey, wife of yesteryear star Chunky Pandey and mother of Gehraiyan actor Ananya Pandey. And then there is Seema Sachdev, Sohail Khan’s ex-wife. Sohail, brother of superstar Salman Khan, had a very short career in Bollywood.
Besides these, the series is peppered with a lot of celebrities. Obviously the families of these four women make appearances. Ananya Pandey (Bhavana’s daughter) and Shanaya Kapoor (Maheep’s daughter and making her debut film with Karan Johar) are in many episodes. We see both young actresses going about their busy lives, doing shoots and going on recces for upcoming films.We also have gracing the small screen Gauri Khan, Karan Johar himself, Arjun Kapoor, Ranveer Singh, Farha Khan, Manish Malhotra and a whole host of others. Even Seema Taparia from the series Indian Matchmaking makes an appearance!
The women go about their daily lives dabbling in their careers – jewelry making (Neelam has a brand of her own) acting, and running restaurants. They meet up from time to time share their points of view, argue, fight and patch up. In this season though there are a lot more conflicts. Barbs fly and and claws flash.
This is a Dharmatic production so there is lots of drama. Some looks real but some does seem manufactured – scripted and planned. There is also quite a bit of product placement – especially in the initial episodes. Gauri Khan has a new furniture line which is given ample coverage by having the four women pose for photographs in front of the furniture. Then there is a wildlife resort in Rajasthan which, while beautiful, seemed empty save for these four women enjoying the facilities. That episode seemed nothing but an advertisement for that resort.
Just like Season one, Season two ends with a big celebration. Similarly, there’s also a lot of incestuous moaning and fawning over big celebrities, bigger fish so to speak. Much is made of Gauri Khan and her furniture line, skill and talent. The four friends also appear to go into raptures of ecstasy watching Ranveer Singh shoot a shower scene for Karan Johar’s upcoming film.
All in all, good fun, although a little less engrossing than Season One.
Kidwise: Language, discussions of adult situations.
