Taaza Khabar season 2 has Bhuvan Bam’s Vasant up for mining fresh news updates for his own good. It also stars Shriya Pilgaonkar and Jaaved Jaaferi.
The moment a script leaps to a flashback with the title “a few weeks ago,” it’s one of the easiest and fastest ways to tell whether it’s weak. It creates a state of calculative narrative brain fog that doesn’t actually offer anything new to the current action that the audience hasn’t previously worked out. Such flashbacks abound in Taaza Khabar Season 2, which is currently available to view on Disney + Hotstar. The abrupt, almost forced cuts to the past slow down the story, especially considering that the entire premise of the show is that our protagonist is able to see into the future. With the future so easily accessible through an app, the present seems less important, thus it must be really convenient to look back at the past, isn’t it?
Season 2 needs taaza updates
People who remember the events of Season 1 and the cliffhanger involving Bhuvan Bam’s Vasant Gawde should rest easy knowing that he and his friends experience even worse horrors this season. Because there is no room in the screenplay to look past what he is doing and how he is doing these crazy, ambitious, and insane things, his actions are insensitive. The first episode picks up where the last season left off, however this time, Taaza Khabar is no longer alive. How therefore can he prevent this from occurring in real life? How can he prevent the already-predicted outcome?
Turns out, a lot! He jumps, cries, lies, kills, yells and manipulates like only he can. We also return to his tribe; which comprises of his helpless parents (played by Atisha Naik and Vijay Nikam; who see no harm in their son’s misdeeds and are happily working to save more money), his friend/sidekick Peter (Prathmesh Parab), the bakery owner Mehboob (Deven Bhojani), and Madhu (Shriya Pilgaonkar). All these characters simply exist in service of our great Vasant’s whims, and will happily take a bullet or some bullying depending on his tomfoolery. But of course, the biggest crisis has not arrived yet! That’s cue for Yusuf (Jaaved Jaaferi) to make his king-sized entry as the menacing antagonist who will not leave Vasant even when he is gone for good.
Final thoughts
Even though the joke has worn thin by now, there are still six episodes left with fresh Taaza Khabar alerts to stretch out the story just a bit longer. The writing is blatantly copycat and appears to follow the same patterns of fresh ideas that have larger executional blunders that result in fatalities. No repercussions of any kind exist. The cops are dozing off, the crimes are not being investigated, nobody is concerned, and Mumbai is becoming more and more nonexistent.
If Vasant moved to Bangalore and changed his location there, would that really make a difference? Would he be able to make it to the location while fighting the traffic after receiving a taaza khabar? The best feature is that there’s no use in raising concerns or even expressing the slightest desire to look into the effects of avarice or the injustices done to the weak. If Taaza Khabar had approached its concept with an eye toward addressing the gap between the haves and the have-nots, it could have been so much more. There it was, the tail.
It’s better that his audience doesn’t mind asking either, as Vasant doesn’t appear to learn anything. A fresh plan and an update on Taaza Khabar! Although Bhuvan has a natural on-screen presence, he rarely brings much depth to a scene when it asks for so little of him. After a while, his acts start to come across as overly immature and repetitive. Taaza Khabar enjoys trying out new tricks, pieces, and resolutions. However, none of these sections are taaza. Like the app, the show also requires an urgent update for its own benefit.
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