Start From Scratch And Without Baggage

Sudip Sharma, whose writing credits include 'NH10' and 'Netflix' series 'Kohrra', is the brain behind ‘Paatal Lok’ as a creator

- BEDIKA

Don't rest on the laurels of season one and start from scratch. That is what the team of ‘Paatal Lok’ told each other as they embarked on the second season of the show centred on a weathered Delhi policeman and his dogged investigation into a high-profile murder, said series creator Sudip Sharma.

The first season of ‘Paatal Lok’ became one of the most talked about shows when it premiered in 2020 on ‘Prime Video’. The second season has been four years in the making and became a reality after all the stakeholders set aside time a year ago to shoot it.

Season two brought back Inspector Hathiram Chaudhary (Jaideep Ahlawat) and his subordinate Imran Ansari (Ishwak Singh) who became his senior.

“When we started working on ‘Paatal Lok 2’, we were like, ‘Okay, we are starting a new season and now the onus is upon us to not f*** it up. That was the first thing that we told each other and not to rest on the laurels of the first season and start from scratch,” Sharma told PTI in an interview.

Season two, which premiered on January 17, is directed by Avinash Arun Dhaware who also steered the first edition.

Sharma, whose writing credits include ‘Udta Punjab’, ‘NH10’ and ‘Sonchiriya’ and another successful series in ‘Kohrra’ on ‘Netflix’, is the brain behind the series as a creator.

He said the team wanted to bring in the same kind of sincerity and hard work with which they approached the first season.