Masaba Gupta & Neena Gupta rediscover themselves in fierce, trustworthy & sassy new season

Masaba Masaba S2

Solid: Masaba Gupta, Neena Gupta, Neil Bhoopalam, Armaan Khera, Rytasha Rathore, Ram Kapoor, Kusha Kapila, Kareema Barry, Barkha Singh 

Director: Sonam Nair

Streaming On: Netflix 

Score: 3/5

The premise of Masaba Masaba is predicated on a bucketful of braveness and sass. For when has it been ever been simple to reveal one’s life to a world the place tweets, likes, loud opinions and cancel tradition have turn out to be the forex for relevance? And to showcase a semi-fictionalised model of your individual life as content material meant for leisure functions, can solely be termed a gutsy determination. So, for starters, ace clothier and now actor Masaba Gupta, and her veteran actress mom and glass-ceiling-breaker Neena Gupta needs to be applauded – not as soon as, however twice. For, they’re again with a brand-new second season of their present. Masaba Masaba S2 is streaming on an OTT platform from at the moment, twenty ninth of July. 

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Masaba Masaba S2 has efficiently stood as much as the expectations set in opposition to it. The writing continues to be contemporary, sassy, principally relatable, with occasional alternatives for introspection and self-reflection. This time round, the true and reel-life mommy-and-daughter-duo have their justifiable share of variations, however they do have one commonality: the necessity to reinvent themselves of their respective fields. Masaba will get her recreation mode on together with her PR supervisor Nicole (Kusha Kapila) and expands herwith a marriage assortment named Home of Shaadi. Not solely that, her coronary heart and instincts are additionally torn between two males: her investor Dhairya Rana (Neil Bhoopalam) and her consumer Fateh (Armaan Khera) who’s about to get married to Aisha (Barkha Singh). 

However, Neena Gupta appears ahead to return to the previous, as she revamps her fashionable and much-loved each day cleaning soap Fursat together with her outdated flame and co-actor Shekhar Mirza (Ram Kapoor). The women have their justifiable share of obstacles and roadblocks to overcome externally and internally, earlier than they understand that one of the best ways to remain related is by honouring one’s personal fact amidst the chaos. Whereas doing so, they’re surrounded by a number of strong-minded, opinionated, numerous, however inspirational ladies who they consistently can fall again on, and study from. 

In an earlier interview with Pinkvilla, Masaba had revealed that she finds enjoying a personality on display a lot simpler than enjoying herself. Explaining additional, she had mentioned that when enjoying one self, it’s obscure when one stops being the character and begins being their actual selves as a substitute. Given the format of the present, there have been fairly a number of cases when references have been drawn from the women’ private lives, however they succeeded in staying true to their characters written for them. 

Aside from being a light-hearted leisure, Masaba Masaba S2 additionally addresses fairly a number of vital conversations in regards to the complexities and confusions about turning 30, ageism, particularly in the direction of ladies within the leisure enterprise, psychological well being, the stability between private {and professional} lives, the significance of illustration, physique picture points, one’s relationship with one’s interior baby and the way that equation impacts the day-to-day relationships with different individuals, influencer tradition and rather more. 

Whereas Neena Gupta is a veteran and spectacular as all the time, Masaba is just a few reveals outdated, but, it appears like appearing ‘keeda’ has sucked its tooth properly inside her pores and skin. She is kind of a pure in entrance of the digicam, figuring out properly when to let her guards down, and her insecurities and vulnerabilities do the speaking as a substitute. If something, she has come again rather more polished together with her craft than the primary season. Neil Bhoopalam, Rytasha Rathore, Kusha Kapila, Barkha Singh, Armaan Khera, and Kareema Barry do justice to their roles as properly. 

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All in all, the seven-episode collection, every about 30-35 minutes lengthy, are partaking, entertaining, and well worth the weekend binge. Masaba Masaba S2, directed by Sonam Nair, is streaming on Netflix. 

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