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The Return Of ‘Luther’-Like Police Drama ‘Paatal Lok’ Reveals Secrets Of A Little-Known Indian State
'Paatal Lok' Season 2, from Sudip Sharma and starring Hathiram Chaudhary (Jaideep Ahlawat) is Deadline's Global Breakout this week.
At one point it looked like the season itself might be stuck in a state of perpetual perdition, as the pandemic and production troubles bit, but it launched globally on January 17 and has been flying in Prime Video’s top 10 charts ever since, both in India and countries such as the UK. After the well received but locally controversial first season dropped in May 2020, writer, creator and showrunner Sudip Sharma didn’t know if he wanted to return to the world he’d created for Mumbai police officers Hathi Ram Chaudhary (Jaideep Ahlawat) and Imran Ansari (Ishwak Singh), having neatly closed out their tale of an assassination attempt gone wrong. In a surreal instance, a member of the ruling BJP party demanded Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli divorce his wife, Anushka Sharma, a producer on the show, in a fit of rage after noticing his picture is visible on the wall in a scene.
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