Rana Naidu Season 2 Review: The stakes are higher this season as Rana returns to the world that he had left behind when his son is kidnapped. Desperate to pull off one final stint that will secure his family’s future, Rana is prepared to go to the brink and beyond to save his son. But with a dangerous opponent to face off against, is there light at the end of this dark tunnel?
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Rana Naidu Season 2 Cast
Rana Daggubati, Venkatesh Daggubati, Arjun Rampal, Surveen Chawla, Kriti Kharbanda, Sushant Singh, Abhishek Banerjee, Dino Morea
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Rana Naidu Netflix Creator
Karan Anshuman
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Rana Naidu 2 Directors
Karan Anshuman, Suparn S. Varma, Abhay Chopra
The second season has 8 episodes, each with a runtime of around 50 minutes and is the official adaptation of the 2013 crime-drama series Ray Donovan starring Liev Schreiber.
Rana Naidu Season 2 Review
The second season of Rana Naidu is here to give us action and entertainment once again, and brings to us a new villain for the Naidus to go up against. Starting with Rana’s son being kidnapped, the series goes on a tried and tested tangent without any depth or meaning, treading waters that other shows have waded before many times. The series continues to be an empty vessel full of unnecessary expletives, bad special effects and unnecessary fight sequences.
Joining the crew this season are Arjun Rampal and Kriti Kharbanda in big roles, but their characters are as empty as the story that they find themselves in. It’s repetitive and banal and doesn’t evoke any emotions other than boredom. Rana goes up against Rauf, a dangerous criminal who is bad for the sake of being bad. He murders a few people but is never successfully able to kill anyone important to Rana, although his main objective is to hurt him. We don’t know or care why he is a bad guy, just that he is.
Meanwhile, Kharbanda is an ambitious Alia whose father, Virat Oberoi, is another rich bad guy, the likes of whom we have seen too many times. Alia’s character is nothing extraordinary; in fact, I sometimes forgot about her when she was not on-screen. Rana constantly talks about taking care of his family and takes them to death’s door in the very next scene. It’s a repetitive pattern that gets very old very soon. I guess Rana Daggubati has the screen presence to pull off the character, but the dialogue delivery is terrible, and you won’t be able to take him seriously.
Other than that, we have their father, Naga, played by Venkatesh Daggubati. I don’t know why he is in this show. His presence doesn’t affect the series in any way, and, in fact, I rolled my eyes every time he appeared out of thin air with a subplot that is best forgotten. The other characters seem to enjoy the chaos that Rana brings into their lives, although they will tell you differently. Again, it’s repetitive and banal. Fighting the bad guys who are harming you is great, but at some point, you need to look inward and question yourself why trouble seems to constantly find you.
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Other than that, Rana Naidu Season 2 isn’t thrilling, and neither is it remotely interesting. The twists and turns are unoriginal and repetitive, and don’t create any impact. People rush in to kill others, but nothing ever happens. I guess Rana is fun to watch battling it out against Rampal, but by the time it happens, you don’t really care, and you mostly know what’s coming.
Final Thoughts
Rana Naidu Season 2 is fine. It’s not good, but it’s watchable. Some mild twists and turns try to create tension that some viewers might enjoy. I guess if you liked the first season, this one might be interesting, and it ends on a cliffhanger of sorts. Other than that, I don’t see much of a point.
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