Baarish 2 review: An insanely repetitive, outdated family drama

Everything about Baarish 2 is stale, from its plot, characterisation, to the treatment of the story. It seems like nobody in the team bothered to check that all their episodes look similar.

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“So, what do you think is going to happen in the next season,” my mother asked me as we finished watching the first season of ALTBalaji-ZEE5’s web series Baarish. I did not know how to best answer the question. One, because, I didn’t like its story to wait for another season and second, there is no character for which you will want to go back. But she was looking forward to Baarish 2. And, it arrived at the best time. In these times, when TV has nothing new to offer, it is difficult to ignore content on the digital medium.

But imagine how bad can a show be when a dedicated viewer of soap operas tells you in the middle of an episode, “What is happening? I don’t want to watch it further.” Everything about Baarish 2 is stale, from its plot, characterisation, to the treatment of the story. It seems like nobody in the team bothered to check that all their episodes look similar.

The story picks up from where the first season concluded. The rich businessman and ideal son, Anuj (Sharman Joshi) goes by the book to get his innocent wife Gauravi (Asha Negi) out of jail. But after being cheated by his brother Rishi, he is penniless and starts living with Gauravi’s parents. Eventually, things fall in place for him as he manages to get a job, buy a small house and live there happily with Gauravi, who also gets a job at a law firm.