Well, we know we are a bit late for this review, but amongst all the work, it did take me some time to complete watching this series.
The OTT platforms have been filled with lots and lots of content. It’s like a never-ending ocean of content. OTT being the new normal has hosted many movies as well as web series. Our most favorite web series are coming up with their upcoming seasons. While all of us have been waiting for the next seasons of Mirzapur, The Family Man, Lucifer, etc., there have been new releases for some old web series.
The one we are discussing today is Hostages. Hostages came up with its second season on 9th September 2020 on Hotstar. The Sudhir Mishra directed story is an adaptation of an Israeli TV series running by the same name. The cast of the series pretty much remained the same except for a few additions and subtractions. The star cast for teh second season of the series are Ronit Roy, Dalip Tahil, Aashi Gulati, Dino Moreo, Divya Dutta, Shbani Dandekar, and many more.
Season two started exactly at the same timeline where Season 1 of the series had ended. Season 1 of the Hostages series depicted the story of Dr. Mira Anand who was a top surgeon of a hospital where the CM, Mr. K.L Handa was to be operated. Everything was going fine, till Dr. Mira Anand and her family were held home captives by a group of four people. The leader of the group was Prithvi Singh, who had just retired from his SP post in the police department. Prithvi then has a conversation with Dr. Anand where he asks her to kill Handa during the operation. Shocked to hear that, Dr. Anand retrospect.
Now, why would an ex-police officer want to kill the CM? But the game being played was much much bigger than one could think. Handa’s security advisor too was involved with the gang and was the one giving Prithvi the orders. There was a lot of confusion created in the season and people loved the suspense.
Towards the end of the first season, we could see that Dr. Anand, with her wit, had managed to save Handa from getting killed. She also discovered the truth about Prithvi and his ailing wife. Prithvi’s wife, Saba was suffering from a disease where she needed a bone marrow transplant. This bone marrow could be donated by Handa, who accidentally happened to be her father as the man had once raped his mother.
As the season ends, we all think that it ended well, but knock-knock surprises come in an unexpected manner. The season 2 of the series started at the exact same point where the death of Handa was faked. Prithvi with his teammates took the body of Handa out from the hospital and shifted him with Saba for the transplant. Prithvi had planned to fly abroad with his family but, unfortunately, Subramaniam, Handa’s security advisor came to know about the double-crossing. He followed them and finally, all of them landed in a stranded house at a deserted place. There were gunshots that led to the involvement of the police. Throughout the season we could see all the people locked up in the house while being surrounded by police force. The police force considered them to be terrorists. The season passes in the quest of being able to escape from the house.
On the other side, we could be able to see a few reasons unfold on why people wanted to kill Handa. In this process, the name of a company General International comes up. This company had originally hired the people to kill Handa as he was a barrier to one of the business contracts. As a psycho from the company gets to know about the fake death of Handa, he threatens Prithvi to hand over Handa to him. Will Prithvi do so? Well, some answers are better to be found in the series.
What Do We Think About It?
Personally speaking, I did not find the second season as interesting as the first one. The series of events were confusing. There were links that one could not understand. The second season was stuffed with so many events and happening that there was no room for entertainment. We expected a lot form the season though. The acting of the characters was also a bit flat. The main pit hole for the entire web series was its story and planning of events.
It is definitely cannot be called a must-watch. The series is of an average quality and can be seen by people who desire to do so.
P.S. – These are personal opinions.
–Sampurna Panigrahi
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