The second season of their fashionable internet collection The Family Man certain marks a primary for the filmmaker duo of Raj and DK. “We haven’t been the ‘sequel kind of people’ till now. The Family Man season 2 is actually the first time that we’re persevering with one thing from the place we stopped. We must get round to doing extra sequels quickly, I suppose,” says Krishna DK, who prefers going by the name DK in the professional circuit, about co-helming the extension of a story on screen for the first time.
The second season of their 2019 espionage action thriller series premieres on June 4. Manoj Bajpayee returns in the starring role of NIA agent Srikant Tiwari, along with Priyamani, Sharib Hashmi, Sharad Kelkar, Sunny Hinduja and Shreya Dhanwanthary in pivotal roles.
The casting that particularly seems to excite Raj and DK is of South actress Samantha star, who makes her digital debut as the antagonist in the new season. She plays a terrorist named Raji.
“Samantha brings a whole new flavour to The Family Man because she is playing something she has never played before, a completely 180-degree contrast to what she has done earlier. She brings in a very power-packed female character that is way stronger than people would think. She brings in a really strong punch to the story,” says Raj Nidimoru about the season’s spotlight casting.
He provides that there wasn’t a lot scope to observe season one’s reception as a way to change the new season. “We had began capturing and writing (season two) even earlier than season one got here out. So, we didn’t have to fret about writing it based mostly on response. We had been tremendous besides possibly like a 5 per cent tweak,” Raj reveals.
While not much is being revealed about the story of the second season, Raj and DK, who hail from Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, tell you the setting is a region they are “kind of familiar with”.
“Season two is extra private and much more intense. Season two can be type of nearer to coronary heart as a result of the focus shifts to a area we’re type of accustomed to,” Raj says.
The setting and the storyline will usher in novelty but the director duo has ensured the tone of the show remains the same. “The tone and intention of season one is true to season two — essentially, that is the spirit of the show. It’s just that because the story moves to a different region of India, the realities of that region come to light. The various elements including the politics of the region, comes to light,” DK says of the present, which returns on Amazon Prime.
Will there be extra seasons of the collection after the second? “We have heaps of tales (for extra seasons) however it’s as much as the platform, as much as Amazon, to determine when and what to do,” Raj grins.
For now, their immediate focus after the launch of season two of the series is their pending projects. There is a series coming up with Shahid Kapoor, plus a couple of film assignments.
“We have a couple of films we were planning to do before the pandemic hit, so now we are trying to pick up the pieces and figure out how, when and all that stuff,” Raj sums up.
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