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Dupahiya S2 Series Review: This town dramedy tries wheelies on an empty tank

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Dupahiya S2 Series Review: This town dramedy tries wheelies on an empty tank

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02 Oct 2026, 8:51 am

Dupahiya Season 2 evaluation(1.5/ 5)

Dupahiya Season 2 Review:

The essential images of a town frequently stimulates a tranquility, something that charms and relieves city folk. The narrow lanes are quieter, and individuals talk more gently, even while handling severe turmoil sometimes. Dupahiya has a comparable energy in its 2nd season, which premiered on Prime Video on October 1. While carefully dealing with plenty of turmoil and borderline-criminal advancements, the world of Dupahiya stops working to draw you in. It’s not peaceful or sluggish– it’s simply dull. Too dull to take care of.

This time around, there is a great deal of desperation in the air of Dhadakpur. Bhugol (Sparsh Shrivastava) is going through an id– he had ended up being a ‘launda naachdancer without understanding it will hinder his acting dreams and Mumbai strategies. Now, on a priest’s guidance, he should assist a female, to eliminate his own curse. Roshni (Shivani Raghvanshi) is desperate too, to pass an examination in order to show something to her daddy, the villagers, and most notably, her ex-fiance.

Cast: Gajraj Rao, Shivani Raghuvanshi, Sparsh Shrivastava, Bhuvan Aorora, Yashpal Sharma, Dinesh Lal Yadav, Komal Kushwaha, Renuka Shahane

Directed by: Sonam Nair

Streaming on: Prime Video

Banwaari (Gajraj Rao), an ethical and highly regarded instructor with love for his occupation, reaches a point where he is forced to cheat a whole town for his own self-centered intentions. Absolutely nothing redeems him after he distinctly keeps somebody like Sheetal (Suryansh Mishra) in the dark. In this cultured universe, which has area for really couple of bad individuals, Dupahiya S2 makers forget that Sheetal too is a lead character in a sense. Now, who do we root for? The program does not have adequate resourcefulness to be a satire, or heart to keep us on board with all of them. Banwari has no upper ethical hand, and his desperation never ever feels strong enough to defy his ethical righteousness. Roshni too never ever becomes somebody to root for.

That’s the most significant issue with Dupahiya S2 — it’s teeming with characters who are difficult to empathise with, not to mention cheer for. The program is constantly desperate looking for punchlines, jokey minutes, an eccentric figure of speech. There is a periodic jab at present state of affairs– a hopeful sarpanch speaking about the requirement to comply with loktantra (democracy), somebody advising that “all news is rumours,” or that line about how a town is constantly too fast to think in superstitious notions. Under all the eccentric information, the series conceals the defects and recklessness of its characters, attempting to pitch itself as adorable slice-of-life without investing sufficient time in catching the inner lives of these characters. It’s too hectic attempting to be a funny.

Even when the stakes get greater, they never ever feel palpable and the stress never ever increase as we forget what’s on the line for Roshni– since the program forgets to advise us. At one point, Banwaari is referred to as ‘Jimmedaar Shikshak,’ however it’s difficult to see him because light. The makers invest all their energy on how to keep the energy light and spirited, sidetracking us from the stress. Scenes are frequently staged like a parody, however carried out with genuineness. It’s just inescapable that we stay baffled about the tonality throughout. There are peeks of drama early on, however the composing group stays persistent to pitch this as a slice-of-life funny, which discusses the excess of punchlines and eccentric discussion. Not in the last episodes however– that’s where Dupahiya endeavors into full-on preachy dramedy zone. The techniques are done, Roshni is advised in an irritatingly preachy scene that an intense trainee practically passed away since of other unfaithful trainees, that ‘unfaithful is incorrect.’ Sigh.

The stakes likewise feel smaller sized due to the fact that while every character gets a track, an issue of their own, the stitching is too irregular. This required to be a smooth tapestry, not a potpourri. It’s not unexpected that Sheetal and Nirmal, and their rather adorable love insinuates and out of the story at benefit.

The staging too is lacklustre. In spite of being dialogue-driven, the program has no faith in its audience– the commitment to basic over-the-shoulder shots simply welcomes dullness into a universe currently battling with predictability. The passive watching aspirations end up being more evident, due to the fact that the program has actually intuitively considered itself as an item of a lower artform– where stress and craft matter less than ease of access. There are lots of techniques up its sleeve, sure– the retro-eseque music nods never ever stop– however in its total journey, Dupahiya S2 appears too arrogant and adorable for itself.

There is likewise this component of ‘town acting’ that has actually pestered our OTT landscape, where every line is countered by a punchline, every character has a thick ‘rooted’ accent that needs to sound charming, with everybody utilizing the purest words from their vocabulary even if it sounds out of location. (Seriously, who states ‘Prem Tribhoj’ or ‘battery samaapt’? Or ‘James Bond-ai’?) Even soda pop is described as ‘kaala waala.’ It’s excessive flavoring, even if the meal is dull. Many of the cast members sound too uneasy about recording the ‘rustic,’ and it reveals in their efficiencies, consisting of Renuka Shahane who provides a proficient efficiency.

If couple of minutes work, they do exclusively since of how efficient Sparsh Shrivastava stays as Bhugol. It requires conviction to offer a line like”Ye ladki hai ya naari,” and Sparsh does it with gusto. His arc is not composed with equivalent attention– why would he anticipate not be stereotyped as a product dancer after branding himself as such is beyond me– and Bhugol is left hanging as the program gets here at its ending. We practically forget about Bhugol’s concerns, the star regularly advises us that he is playing a character who deserves his own program.

Towards completion, Bhugol returns to dancing for household, something he had actually chosen to stop to preserve his self-respect, due to the fact that Dupahiya is now a nostalgic drama. You got an issue with the genre-shift? Simply get the damaged pieces of this bike, and carry on.