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  • Tahir Raj Bhasin-Shweta Tripathi’s Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein set to go back for Season 2

    Pulpy-thriller Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein has been greenlit for some other season via Netflix. The lead actor Tahir Raj Bhasin took to Instagram on Wednesday to proportion the massive information together with his enthusiasts. “Uss din Khabar aayi ki Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein ka naya season aa raha hai aur hum khushi se kood pade. Sorry, simply practising Vikrant’s voiceovers once more as a result of a New Season is occurring!!!! ???” he captioned his publish.

    With the exception of Tahir, the eight-episode sequence additionally starred Anchal Singh and Shweta Tripathi as protagonists, whilst actors like Saurabh Shukla, Anant Joshi performed pivotal roles. Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein items the tale of a middle-class boy Vikrant (Bhasin) who turns into an object of want for the tough Purva (Singh). As Vikrant tries his perfect to damage out from her clutches and are living an ordinary existence together with his real love Shikha (Tripathi), he’s taking the darkish trail, handiest to feel sorry about it later.

     

     

    Speaking concerning the luck of the primary season, writer Sidharth Sengupta mentioned that the mission is terribly just about his center. He added that ‘it’s humbling to look it now not handiest come to existence but additionally being cherished via audiences far and wide the globe’.  Thanking his crew and co-writers, Sengupta additional mentioned, “It’s overwhelming to understand that this sort of huge target market now not handiest in India but additionally the world over have loved and liked the display. We’re excited to get operating on season 2 of Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein and convey it  for the enthusiasts quickly.”

    Tanya Bami, sequence head, Netflix India shared knowledge concerning the display, declaring that it’s ‘lately at quantity 6 within the Best 10 world non-English TV checklist and featured within the Best 10 row in 11 international locations on Netflix’. She added, “The twisted story has been liked via each critics and audience alike, for its daring theme of subverting the gender dynamics, energy play in a courting and the pointy and refreshing performances of Anchal, Tahir and the easy Saurabh Shukla who’ve packed in additional than a punch. For everybody who requested, what occurs subsequent, we’re excited to announce the second one season of the genre-bending sequence with more recent plot twists and surprises galore.”

  • Director Sidharth Sengupta: Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein is an entire masala entertainer

    Netflix’s newest unique Yeh Kaali Kaali Aankhein, which premiered remaining week, is already in Netflix’s Most sensible 10 checklist. The ‘pulpy’ drama stars Tahir Raj Bhasin, Shweta Tripathi and Anchal Singh within the lead roles. In a talk with indianexpress.com, the writer and director Sidharth Sengupta speaks about making the display, demanding situations and dealing with Netflix.

    Excerpts from the dialog:

    What made you 0 in at the identify ‘Yeh Kaali Kaali Aankhein’?

    It got here from the road from Othello — ‘For she had eyes and selected me’. We would have liked a identify similar for a display the place the person is driven to the nook. Additionally, it’s an iconic monitor and I’m a large movie buff. I feel I by no means considered some other identify. We all the time needed to opt for one thing on equivalent traces given the nature units her eyes at the guy, and adjustments his lifestyles.

    I learn someplace that you just preserved this tale for a very long time no longer short of to make a TV display. Have been there no fears that the tale may get dated?

    Anahata (Menon) and I am going a ways, and we might talk about more than one tales all through our TV days. Now, everyone knows TV is an excessively other structure and was once simply no longer proper for a tale like this. We couldn’t have explored it as a movie given the time crunch. Even now, with the primary season, we’ve simply put throughout one side. Sure, we did really feel just a little stressed however there have been no concern because it’s a modern matter. It’s an evergreen matter. A story about issues of the guts. So when OTT came about, we met Monica Shergill after which we have been on Netflix.

    For individuals who are but to catch the display, would you proportion extra main points?

    It’s whole masala leisure. It’s additionally very twisted in its personal manner. It’s a love tale and no longer some darkish crime story. Yeh Kaali Kaali Aankhein is set mayhem and attractiveness, and no longer the opposite direction spherical. The speculation got here from what occurs if you end up at the mistaken facet of the robust. After which you might be in deeper bother once they love you however you don’t love them again.

     

    Netflix is for the area of interest target audience. Do you suppose a pulpy story from the heartland will in finding an target audience?

    Netflix is now in India. Even a McDonald’s sells aloo tikki right here (laughs). I’ve previous performed two internet presentations, Apaharan and Undekhi. I understood that the internet does connect to the hundreds. It has its personal attraction. Once we met Monica, she was once additionally very transparent that she sought after one thing massy however inside the parameters of the platform. Netflix does have numerous native content material, be it Fargo, Narcos, and even Breaking Dangerous. They’re all masala presentations, and Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein may be very Indianised masala content material. Then again, we’ve made it conserving the Netflix target audience in thoughts too as we perceive its succeed in. It’s indisputably made with that sensibility.

    When you’re running with a large studio like Netflix, how a lot liberty do they provide its creators?

    I feel it’s the opposite direction spherical. They no longer most effective gave me the freedom but in addition driven me to discover extra. I feel Netflix has been like an revel in. While you input its place of work, everyone is aware of the script and is invested in making it extra a hit. There were instances once they informed me that I will have to take extra time. That hasn’t ever came about sooner than. It was once a collective manner for the nice of the display. We have been running on it all through heavy Covid instances and I in truth stayed at a 5-star resort for 100 days to edit the display. They have got supported me utterly no longer simply as an inventive but in addition manufacturer.

    How did you make a decision at the lead solid?

    The tale is in regards to the adventure of the lead man’s psychological state. The target audience had to be in his footwear and sympathise with him. All of the tale is noticed thru his eyes. To get into that way of thinking, one had to do numerous homework. I’ve noticed numerous Tahir’s paintings and wanted the similar depth. After which I’m thankful to Shweta for agreeing to do the movie. I’ve been keen on Shweta since Harmkhor days and he or she is a sweetheart. We would have liked a easy woman stuck up in difficult eventualities and I’m more than happy that she approved the function. Coming to Anchal, we’ve labored along with her in Undekhi and Varun (Badola) steered we take her. She was once precisely what I used to be on the lookout for. As Purva, she has innocence in her eyes but it surely’s the ability that she has that makes her persona attention-grabbing. There’s additionally Saurabh Shukla, who wishes no creation, and we even have an excellent ensemble solid of Surya Sharma, Hetal Gada, Anant Joshi and Sujata.

     

    In case you had to select your favorite persona, which one would that be?

    It’s very tough because it’s taken me years to put in writing them. Then again, sure, Vikrant was once probably the most tough one. The entire adventure is thru his eyes and his psychological adventure. Thus, it was once moderately tough to put in writing him.

    Now that you just glance again, what was once the most important problem whilst making the display?

    I feel it was once Covid-19. We’d be taking pictures at puts when lockdowns can be all of sudden introduced. We needed to regularly shift puts. Whilst you would possibly not understand, there are more than one scenes that we shot at other places. In a single scene, we moved to Patiala, Manali or Mumbai. That was once the most important problem with the exception of in fact writing.

    The display says it’s about ‘love and want’ — how would you describe each those feelings?

    I feel we will be able to most effective outline love as that’s the root reason for each emotion. It is usually probably the most difficult emotion. In Crimson Floyd’s phrases, ‘it’s ‘A Short-term Lapse of Explanation why’. You don’t love anyone for a explanation why and love may be what units want. Purva in point of fact loves Vikrant, with all honesty. And that’s the issue which complicates the whole lot. Love all the time has more than one sides and one can move about telling tales on it.

  • Shah Rukh Khan’s affect large on Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein, says solid

    Proper from its name to popular culture references, Netflix sequence “Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein” is sprinkled with Shah Rukh Khan trivialities, in keeping with its solid individuals Tahir Raj Bhasin, Shweta Tripathi Sharma and Anchal Singh.

    The forged of the impending display says those throwbacks to the filmography of Khan, together with films like “Baazigar”, “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge” to “Om Shanti Om” come from the maximum recognize they have got for the celebrity who defines “all sun shades of romance”.

    Set within the fictional city of Onkara, the tale of “Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein” follows a romantic simpleton, Vikrant, performed through Bhasin. He’s an object of need for Purva (Singh), who will cross to any lengths to get him. The eight-episode sequence will see the mild-mannered Vikrant creating a brand new aspect to him. As a way to break out Purva’s clutches and reclaim his existence along with his real love, Shikha (Sharma), he is going down a depressing trail best to feel sorry about it later on this pulpy mystery.

    As a “Delhi boy who involves Bombay to behave”, Bhasin stated it’s unattainable to not be a large Shah Rukh Khan fan.

    “There may be superstardom after which there’s Shah Rukh Khan. He not represents the celebrity, he’s an establishment of anyone who has a dream and places in the whole lot to make it. It used to be very good to grasp that there used to be SRK trivialities thrown into the sequence.

    “It’s acceptable too for the reason that sequence may be very pulpy Bollywood. It has throwbacks to the ’90s purely on the subject of the theme: there may be passionate romance and revenge. There’s a personality arc the place an odd guy faces unusual instances,” the actor, who used to be lately noticed in Kabir Khan’s “83”, informed PTI in an interview over Zoom.

    The trailer of the sequence, created and directed through Sidharth Sengupta, additionally introduces the viewer to a brand new word: ‘Shah Rukh-giri’.

    While you say ‘Shah Rukh-giri’, it approach being a hero, stated Bhasin.

    “It’s with utmost humility and recognize that those references had been made,” he added.

    For Tripathi Sharma, nobody romances on display screen like Shah Rukh Khan.

    “He has proven us all sun shades of romance. I believe that’s the wonder about being an artiste and the type of particular person that he’s… That’s what I like about cinema that influences your day-to-day existence. Leisure is a significant bite of this however there may be so a lot more. Movies destroy all limitations like caste, faith, and so on, because it best boils all the way down to feelings,” she stated.

    Singh, who has grown as much as Shah Rukh’s motion pictures, stated she is solely “satisfied” to be a part of a display that celebrates the King of Romance.

    “Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein” is described as a mental drama set towards the backdrop of crime and need with subject matters of twisted love and tool.

    Bhasin, who won prominence following his breakout debut because the antagonist in 2014’s “Mardaani”, stated it used to be thrilling to celebrity in a romantic drama.

    “It used to be new to play a personality who wears his center on sleeve and leads along with his center. The thrilling dynamic of getting a romantic triangle with an excessively fascinating, inverse form of point of view. We’ve noticed such a lot of subject matters of a love triangle when the person is passionately in love with the lady. However what occurs if it’s the opposite direction spherical and in addition she is within the place of energy? Love is an intense emotion to play, identical to hate is on the different finish of the spectrum. Simply so that you can play each those extremes in a single sequence used to be a large problem,” the 34-year-old actor stated.

    Tripathi Sharma, 36, described the display as a “rollercoaster of feelings”.

    “What excited me in regards to the tale used to be love. Love is a very easy but vital factor. As of late, on this planet such things as simplicity, kindness and love are getting diluted. Different feelings like energy are weighing heavy on love. If you have final energy, best then you already know if you are going to use it neatly or now not. That used to be very thrilling. And, Shikha is able to do no matter it takes to get her love,” she added.

    Singh, who has starred in Tamil movie “Dhilluku Dhuddu”, stated it used to be rewarding to play Purva, a “superbly layered” persona in “Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein”.

    “Like Shikha, she may be able to get her love, however the approach and the other social surroundings she belongs to is how they fluctuate. Possibly from the outdoor they each need the similar issues however the extra you cross within, you notice how other they’re. For Purva, the whole lot is truthful in love and struggle,” she stated.

    The sequence is but any other ever-growing record of internet sequence primarily based in a small-town of north India and Bhasin stated the display does complete justice to the milieu.

    “After I see ‘Narcos’, ‘Squid Recreation’ or ‘Borgen’, they’re unapologetically original to their local international locations. Our sequence may be rooted actually even if there may be stylised dramatisation,” he stated.

    Tripathi Sharma, whom Bhasin referred to as ‘a north India professional’ courtesy her starring turns in motion pictures like “Masaan”, “Raat Akeli Hai”, and High Video sequence “Mirzapur”, stated relatability is a big issue that gravitates ingenious other folks to the area.

    “There are such a large amount of flavours to discover in north India. I nonetheless suppose we haven’t executed that. What I really like about ‘Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein’ and what OTT is providing is that there’s one thing for everybody. If you wish to have spice, you’ve gotten that. If you wish to have dessert, there may be that too,” she stated.

    Additionally starring Saurabh Shukla, Surya Sharma, Brijendra Kala, Arunoday Singh, Anant Joshi, Sunita Rajwar and Hetal Gada, the sequence will get started streaming from January 14.

    Sengupta additionally serves as author together with Anahata Menon and Varun Badola for the sequence, which is produced through Edgestorm Ventures.