Sunil Grover and a perky Adah Sharma in some way salvage Sunflower 2, observes Deepa Gahlot.
A massively widespread and great American Web sequence referred to as Only Murders In The Building is being talked about right here as a result of it’s a good instance of how quirky characters may be made endearing as an alternative of annoying as in Sunflower (2021).
The sequence was created by Vikas Bahl, who directed the primary season, and has handed the reins for the second to Navin Gujral.
There are similarities between the 2 reveals.
Both are set in a housing society, the place a homicide takes place.
Both are filled with bizarre residents.
The Sunflower crew is led by the twitchy, OCD-afflicted protagonist Sonu (Sunil Grover) and the meddlesome chairman Dilip Iyer (Ashish Vidyarthi).
In the primary season, one of many residents Raj Kapoor (Ashwin Kaushal) was killed, supposedly by poison injected by his neighbours, Mr and Mrs Ahuja (Mukul Chadda-Radha Bhatt), into the coconut he orders each morning.
But when the cops — Inspector Digendra (Ranvir Shorey) and his deputy Tambe (Girish Kulkarni) — arrive to analyze, all clues appear to level to Sonu.
The season ended with Sonu being kidnapped.
In Season 2, he reappears, trying dirty however in any other case none the more serious for the wear and tear for an individual who made his means again to Mumbai from Punjab. Meanwhile, it’s found that Kapoor’s corpse has a watch lacking, and the already clueless cops are much more baffled.
Most of the characters from Season 1 return.
The new entrant is Adah Sharma as Rosie, the bar dancer to whom Kapoor willed his lavish condominium in Sunflower.
The homicide thriller ideally must have ended within the final season that was needlessly padded with Sonu’s interactions together with his neighbours and girlfriends (the HR head in his workplace is especially predatory), and Iyer’s bigotry.
The stuffing now extends to the brand new season the place extra characters pop up, who could have had a motive to kill Kapoor.
Instead of a taut thriller padded with comedy, there are too many unfunny scenes, proper within the first episode is the unsavoury sight of Ahuja getting a physique wax!
Good for the sequence then that Rosie makes her high-heeled entrance, carrying an enormous teddy bear, in order that the distant picked as much as change the channel is positioned again on the sofa.
The antics of Sonu, who’s portrayed as an harmless Mamma’s Boy of 35, and claims to be tremendous clever, are much more irritating on this time spherical, when he falls in love with Rosie.
She charmingly strings him alongside however then is proven to be the kind who even flirts with the constructing’s safety guard.
There was not a lot plot to start with, so time is wasted on the romance between Digendra and Mrs Ahuja, the declaration of her bisexuality by Iyer’s daughter, scenes with a color blind tailor and the deviousness of the maid, Kamini (Annapurna Soni), who is aware of rather more than the cops have been in a position to determine.
If there are small bursts of humour, it’s as a result of Sunil Grover is a tremendous comedian actor, and together with a perky Adah Sharma, in some way salvages Sunflower 2.
But there actually, actually is not any want for a Season 3, which have to be within the works, as a result of all of the crimson herrings are nonetheless not reeled in, and Sonu is dropped into an even bigger vat of pickle!
Sunflower 2 streams on ZEE5.
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