Srikant Tiwari and his TASC colleagues' mission, should they choose to accept it, is to stop Bhaskaran from carrying out his mission. Feeling betrayed by the Indian govt, the rebel army chief sets a plan in motion to assassinate the Indian Prime Minister, Ms Basu (a terrific cameo by Seema Biswas where she channels her inner-Mamata Banerjee).
After an attack by the Lankan army forces Bhaskaran and two most-trusted aides to flee to London in the first episode, and it's over there that he joins hands with ISI's Major Sameer. The leader, inspired by Prabhakaran, is called Bhaskaran (Mime Gopi). The second season also sets up new antagonists - a rebel army outfit (based on the LTTE) demanding an independent state for the Sri Lankan Tamils. The one-liners come thick and fast, Srikant is able to devote much more time to his wife and kids, but as we already know - it's only a matter of time before he goes back. Even though he's doing his best of typing up 'TPS reports' and tolerating an overbearing boss, who insists Srikant is a 'minimum guy', he also has one eye on National Security through his persistent phone calls made to JK (Sharib Hashmi) during office hours, much to Srikant's boss's annoyance. The mitigated attack has been termed a 'gas leak' due to a technical failure, and Srikant has quit TASC to take up a more conventional 9-to-5 job in an IT company called Cache Me. Zoya has lost movement in her lower limbs, and Milind is battling trauma and guilt of being capable of return to duty, while Zoya (who saved his life) is stranded on a wheel-chair for life. During the first episode, in a somewhat hurried flashback, we're told that Zoya (Shreya Dhanwantary) and Milind (Sunny Hinduja) averted the chemical attack planned on the city of Delhi, narrowly escaping death themselves.
The Family Man S02 takes off a year after the events of the first. The ho-hum news? There are fewer surprises, something one has come to expect from anything bearing the names of Raj & DK. The good news? The second season delivers on its promises.
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With the first season, the duo seemed to have cracked a way of confidently amalgamating popular genres, something they only further exploit for a highly-anticipated second season. To which Srikant responds with "I have no interest in proving my masculinity (to you) in this moment". It does the enviable job of seeming adequately grounded while being a relationship drama between Srikant (Manoj Bajpayee) and Suchi's (Priya Mani) gradually dissipating marriage, a track around Srikant's (Manoj Bajpayee) IT job that appears to be the director-duo's deft homage to Office Space, action set-pieces that seem straight out of a Bourne film, two 'extremists' sharing a poignant moment, or even a subversive moment where Raji snarls "Uncuff me and fight like a real man". However, that's the beauty of Raj & DK's The Family Man realm. It's something that doesn't seem pretentious in the Raj & DK enterprise, that mocks itself for sentimentality each time it finds itself becoming even remotely 'soft'. It's a moment where they can put away their facade of 'killing machines' for a great cause, and allow themselves to be humans. It's a terrific moment where both characters, branded as 'outsiders' by their respective nations, share something tender. I've heard even Sri Lanka is very beautiful?", Sajid asks Raji, and the silence hangs in the air for a few seconds. The question is posed with innocence, something that's completely at odds with the personality that the show has built around Sajid till then. A man, who considers himself a Mujahid from Kashmir, Sajid (Shahab Ali) poses the question to Raji (Samantha Akkineni), a member of the rebel army for the Sri Lankan Tamils. If this were to be the first scene of the show, the viewer might even be forgiven for not understanding why it's such a loaded question. They're inside a car on a rainy day, driving to the Southern coast of Tamil Nadu. "Have you ever been to Kashmir?", one character asks another in the fifth episode of the second season of Amazon Prime Video's The Family Man.