The second season of Rana Naidu started streaming on Netflix today. Here is what the critics community is saying about the series. Most of the reviews are negative, while others are mixed at best.
Rediff: What's unforgiving about Season two is the way the ever-so-entertaining Venkatesh Daggubati is under-utilised. In a welcoming change, the overkill of cusswords and sexually explicit scenes are toned-down. Yet, Rana Naidu 2 ends up being a downer mess despite a very good cast doing their best to hold it together.
The Hollywood Reporter: A whole lot of nothing happens in Season 2. The novelty is gone. It is far more congested and greedy. The series has so many characters, subplots, layers, and conflicts that every subplot feels like the end of a sentence whose beginning we have forgotten about.
Indian Express: Rana Dagubatti makes up for the show's shortcomings as the long, tall and strong titular character, who stays the last man standing in the face of all the murder and mayhem.
NDTV: The show piles cliche upon tattered cliche. The movie and music industries find their way into the action-packed but inert narrative set in a dog-eat-dog world. But like so much else in the show, they only hover in the background.
Scroll: The episodes sharpen as the season progresses, though some ideas feel recycled. The emotional core is provided by authentic performances – Surveen Chawla as the frustrated wife; Sushant Singh and Abhishek Banerjee as brothers torn between fraternal love, resentment and unfulfilled desires.
Also starring Kriti Kharbanda, Arjun Rampal and Dino Morea, the web series is produced by Sunder Aaron and Locomotive Global. Created by Karan Anshuman and directed by him alongside Suparn S Varma, and Abhay Chopra, the show is written by its creator, Ryan Soares, Karmanya Ahuja, Ananya Mody, Karan Gour, and Vaibhav Vishal.
