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Pataal Lok Season 2 Web Series Review: Here's My Honest Review
On 17 January of this month, it was as if there was a rain of different contents that I did not get the right time to watch Season 2 of Pataal Lok, but now I have watched this web series and what is there in it, let's talk a bit. This series has several 8 episodes, and every episode is almost 40 to 45 minutes, so if you want to binge-watch it, it will take almost five or six hours But is this series worth it? So in my opinion, it depends on your choice of liking. I liked Season 1 very much, and with that impression, I sat to watch Season 2. Now look, Season 1 of Pataal Lok came in 2020, i.e. in COVID times, and at that time, everyone was craving content because everyone was sitting at home and wanted something to watch. In such a situation, this series comes and also becomes popular based on its content. Now look at that time; there were many reasons for Season 1 of Pataal Lok to become famous, such as the raw and rustic language used in it, similar to how you and I speak among our friends or generally in close circles. Additionally, some of its brutal scenes became quite famous, especially the character of Hathoda Tyagi and the brutal murders committed by him. And yes, Hathiram Chaudhary, played by Jaideep Ahlawat, has a huge contribution or, say, hand in making this series famous, but will we get to see something similar in Season 2 as well? Look, Season 1 has not much to do with Season 2; I mean, story-wise, the case of the first season was different, and this season is based on a different case. So, there is no story-wise continuity. So watching Season 1 is not really important, but you need to know some characters like Hathiram Chaudhary or his family, then Imran Ansari or his relationship with Hathiram Chaudhary; if you know this much, then it is enough. At the start of the first episode, a recap of about one and a half minutes is shown to you, which will help you connect with the characters. Now if we talk about the story of Season 2, then instead of comparing it with the story of Season 1, we should judge it as a fresh story.
By Ayush Verma2 years ago in Geeks
Creature Commandos
James Gunn’s Creature Commandos was off to a rough start. I think it started really slow and the story still seems a little confused. That said it is his first project in his DCU so I have to give him some time to get going. We really are just getting started and I have heard some really amazing things about the end of the show. Gunn is still the only person I trust with the future of DC especially after seeing the Superman trailer. I do love some of the characters he chose to use for Creature Commandos so let’s get to the second half of the season.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
Pataal Lok Season 2 Ending Explained
So well, finally, Pataal Lok Season 2 has been released, and I have also watched the show completely, but many audiences found the second season as confusing as the first season. And yes this show indeed demands a lot of focus. The creators and events of this show are quite complicated. But don't worry, just stay with me till the end. I guarantee that you will understand this entire series well. Now, before talking about the ending of this show, I will have to tell you its story in brief; otherwise, you will not understand. So Season 2 begins in Nagaland House in Delhi where a beheaded body is found in a room. On the other side, a woman comes to Hathiram Chaudhary to file a report for her missing husband Raghu Paswan. Ansari has become an IPS officer. The news comes on TV that Jonathan Thom, founder of Nagaland Democratic Forum, has been murdered, and due to this, there is a lot of commotion in Nagaland, and now the people there are strongly opposing this business summit. Ansari has been given this case to read. On the other hand, our Hathiram is busy searching for Raghu. Hathiram finds tickets for Dimapur Nagaland in Raghu's luggage. Ansari meets a waiter and asks for the details of the night of Thom's murder and while checking the CCTV footage, he suspects a girl named Rose. After this, Thom's security officer, Daniel, meets the police, who are in the room with a girl that night. Meanwhile, Raghu's wife has died in an accident. On checking the CCTV footage of the railway station Raghu is found and there was a girl with him who was none other than Rose Lizo i.e. Ansari and Hathiram were working on different cases and they are connected. Seeing this Ansari takes Hathiram on board with him. The owner of the club where Rose used to work is Dhruv Malik. Reuben Thom, who is Jonathan Thom's son, is running a political party against his father. Uncle Ken and Kapil Reddy are some names that you need to keep in mind to understand the ending. Through the news, everyone comes to know that Jonathan Thom's prime suspect is Rose Lizo, and in connection with this case, Hathiram and Ansari go to Nagaland. While searching for Rose, Ansari is shot by a sniper and at the moment Ansari dies. Hathiram Chaudhary's main focus now is on Ansari's shooter. Hathiram had to find out who killed Ansari. After this, Reuben is blamed for Ansari's death. Hathiram meets Reuben and asks him who killed Ansari, but Reuben does not know this. Reuben tells him that Kapil Reddy used to convert Thom's drug money from black to white through his hotel business. And now Hathiram also tells Reuben some details which Reuben probably did not know. He tells him that Rose was not Thom's mistress but his illegitimate daughter and Thom was physically involved with his own daughter. This truth was known to Rachel, i.e. Reuben's sister, due to which she committed suicide. Now while both of them were talking to each other, the same Ansari shooter killed Reuben as well. Reddy, sitting in Delhi, gets to know about Reuben's death, and he also informs his wife, Grace, about this news. He also tells his wife not to tell this news to Reuben's mother because this will have a huge impact on the business summit or hotel deals. But now since Reuben's mother was a very good friend of Grace, Grace tells her everything about Reuben's death. Uncle Ken hears all the things Reddy said to his wife in the washroom - don't tell his mother about Ruben's death etc. Now ACP Virk calls Hathiram and tells him that a few years ago, narcotics had made a file against Reddy, but it was made to disappear, and the names of many big people were also included in it. Reddy is the same person who gave the news of Thom's drug dealer Max to SP Meghna of Nagaland, after which the SP also confiscated Thom's goods worth 60 crores. After all this, SP Meghna tells Hathiram that the sniper who killed Ansari and Reuben had registered the car in the name of Kohima Tours and Travels. And here Hathiram understood that his driver in Nagaland, Bittu, was the one who was giving minute-to-minute information to the sniper. Hathiram beats up Bittu a lot, and then Bittu says that the sniper is none other than Thom's security officer, Daniel. After this, Delhi's ACP Virk arrests Daniel's girlfriend, and on questioning her, she tells him that Daniel got a call from someone that night, and then he left the room. Daniel is from a kind of place called Lungchu where people are very loyal to their owner. This is the same Baptist Orphanage where three people made a video and took the responsibility of killing Thom. After a little more investigation, it is revealed that Uncle Ken was running that orphanage. Hathiram calls Meghna and tells her all this, but Daniel has already caught Meghna when she was investigating at her house, and as soon as he finishes talking to Hathiram, Daniel kills Meghna. Naga Summit in Delhi is successful and Nagaland gets an investment of 200 crores. Hathiram goes to the place mentioned by Meghna and meets Daniel there. Both of them fight for a long time, but after that, Hathiram Chaudhary kills Daniel. Now Hathiram goes to Ken and tells him the story of the night of the murder. He says that the call that Thom received at the hotel that night was from his drug dealer Max and the raid that happened at his place was done by Reddy. Thom understands that by doing all this, Reddy wants to convince him to a meeting, but Thom goes to Ken's room and clearly refuses to have the meeting. After which, Ken goes to Thom's room and slits his throat, and then he asks Daniel to do all the further work. Then after all this, Ken gets a video made by three people from his orphanage in which they were taking responsibility for killing Thom. And then Ken gets those three people killed as well by Daniel. Ken does all this so that it looks like a political murder, and all the blame goes on Reuben, but in the end, Ken gets Reuben killed as well, and he does this so that Summit succeeds and becomes a god for the people of Nagaland. Hathiram is about to reveal the whole truth to the public but seeing the happiness of the people, he does not do so and leaves for the airport. On the way, Hathiram comes to know that Rose died in the hospital. But still, one person is missing from this whole scene, and that is Raghu. When Hathiram comes home, Raghu's grandparents come to take his son Guddu. The next day Hathiram comes to the police station, and on checking the CCTV footage of Dhruv Malik, he finds Raghu's friend Kishore's auto, which was also parked outside Hathiram Chaudhary Ji's house the previous night when Raghu's grandparents had come to pick up his son Guddu including Kishore. After this Hathiram catches Kishore and his companions. Kishore says that on the night of Thom's murder, Raghu had taken his auto and was going to give ten thousand rupees to Kishore in exchange for his auto, but when Raghu came back, he did not have the money, so Kishore and his friends killed him, in a drunken state. Here we also come to know that Raghu was just helping Rose. ACP Virk comes there and Hathiram tells him the whole matter. ACP also asks Hathiram about those two crore rupees and where did they go. Nobody knows this whole story. Hathiram also talks to the ACP about leaving his job; then the ACP asks if he would like to eat kulfi; he orders kulfi and gives a torn note of Rs. 100 to the kulfi seller, who refuses to take the note, then the ACP replies, I am giving you the money; that is enough, then Hathiram remembers something on seeing the torn note, and he runs and takes out the torn note from Thom's wallet. Now Hathiram Chaudhary takes that torn 500 rupee note and goes to the hawala where his brother-in-law had brought him once before to get him a job worth 1 lakh rupees. So Hathiram says there that he wants to know where this note was issued and reaches the location. Then, taking five lakhs from those two crores, which were Raghu's share, Hathiram Chaudhary goes to the station and gives it to Raghu's son. Pataal Lok Season 2 ends here, and this season, too, was a complete story like the last season; the makers did not leave any cliffhangers in it. And where nowadays, every TV show or movie ends with a cliffhanger so that the makers can bring out the next part; the exact opposite has happened in Pataal Lok, and every story has got a perfect ending. However, some lost points or stories still remain, like why Kapil Reddy was selling his hotel and going to Europe, and if he had to go, then why was he trying to make the summit successful? My theory in this is that: The government had come to know about Reddy's black deeds and his name was also removed from the narcotics department because that order must have come from the top, so there was someone who wanted to make the summit successful, and this was no one else but the government itself. The proof of this is given by the ACP in the end when he tells Chaudhary that they are all pawns in the game because the game is being played from above. And one thing that Hathiram said in the end is that he wants to quit the police job. This points towards two things. This was the last season of Pataal Lok. But this is probably not possible. Otherwise, it could also be that Hathiram Chaudhary was fed up with his job. I think Hathiram Chaudhary will not quit his job and will solve another great case in Pataal Lok Season 3. Well, what are your theories? Share them in the comments. So that's all for today. Thanks for staying with me till now.
By Ayush Verma2 years ago in Geeks
The camaraderie of hyper-capitalism vs anti-capitalism in Squid Season 2
Many people have been anxiously awaiting the second season of Squid Game, the most-watched show on Netflix. To win prizes in the first season, players had to compete in several lethal kid-friendly games. The upcoming season, which is also expected to break yet another Netflix record, delves deeper into the limitations and economic background of the surrealistic games. Green light, red light. When the song starts, move forward; when it ends, freeze. It's a fairly easy game. Or is it that moving after the music has stopped carries a death sentence? It was clear from the first season that Squid Game allegorizes the horrors of capitalism through kid-friendly games. Three years later, the second season of arguably the most significant television program of our time advances its adamantly anti-capitalist theme. It accomplishes this by exposing the illusion of "choice" in a system threatening to starve the great majority. In this article, I dive deeper into the dystopian nuances of capitalism and the illusion of choice that stir up scenarios very similar to reality.
By Hridya Sharma2 years ago in Geeks
Marblehead Little Theatre's Riveting Performance of 'A View From the Bridge'
Justice is very important in our world. It can also be very dangerous. A View From the Bridge is a play by Arthur Miller. Set in an Italian-American neighborhood in 1956 New York, Eddie Carbone is intimidated when his wife Beatrice’s cousins, Marco and Rudolpho, arrive from Sicily. His obsessive, overprotective nature toward his niece Catherine leads to bitter tensions and devastating consequences for the family.
By Marielle Sabbag2 years ago in Geeks
Power of Paanch Web Series Review
Now I feel that Disney Plus Hotstar is working under Akshay Kumar's Digdi Yojana. I mean his shows are coming one after the other, whose impact is seen to be zero. Now, another show has come on this list, whose name is Power of Paanch, but what is inside this show and how it has been spoiled, let's find out. Well, in the story of this show, we get to see that the power of the five elements of our entire universe has come inside five different people, now this is going on from generation to generation, so what kind of evil force is behind it and will they protect them or not, to know that you will have to watch this show, which has eight episodes and their length varies from fifteen to 20 minutes.
By Ayush Verma2 years ago in Geeks
Pataal Lok Ending Explained: Why Did Tyagi Kill Himself?
I hope that all of you have watched all the episodes of Pataal Lok, and after watching this series, you must have some questions, which we will clear here in this article today. Spoilers Warning: As this is a topic with an ending explanation, there will be plenty of spoilers here, so if you have not watched the Pataal Lok web series yet, watch it first and only then read any such topic otherwise watching the series will not be fun at all and in case if you do not have any problem with spoilers then continue reading.
By Ayush Verma2 years ago in Geeks
Wolfman
Wolfman marks the first film release of 2025 and the first film from this year that I got to see. Not only was it a pretty good horror film but it was a textbook perfect metaphor for generational trauma. The very small cast did a great job, and it was an excellent way to kick off the year. 2025 is going to be full of incredible movies just like the last few years have been. But hopefully this film is an indication that horror movies are about to improve, cause last year was a little rough.
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 years ago in Geeks
The Simpsons’ Shocking Response to LA Wildfire Ignites Viral Buzz
The Simpsons, the iconic animated family that has entertained audiences for decades, is no stranger to timely satire and cultural commentary. Yet, their latest reaction to the devastating Pacific Palisades wildfire has left fans and critics alike in shock, sparking heated discussions and going viral across social media platforms.
By mureed hussain2 years ago in Geeks
