‘Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein’ season 2 review: Tale of kinky love gets twisted out of shape

The novelty factor in the first season of Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein was that a woman lusted after a man, instead of the other way round. With the power of her gangster father behind her, she could even terrorise him into ditching his girlfriend and marrying her. He tried to find fool-proof methods of killing her, but was shocked to discover that the hitman wanted a large sum not to send her back. The freaky twist paved the way for the Netflix show’s second season, which, like the first, opens with a line from Shakespeare: “the course of true love never did run smooth”.

This time, it runs with all the convolutions of a video game. Vikrant (Tahir Raj Bhasin) is between a rock and a hard place. He’s crazed enough in his hatred of his wife Purva (Anchal Singh) to bomb a theatre to kill her, never mind how many others die in the bargain. He’s processing the news that his girlfriend Shikha (Shweta Tripathi) is marrying Akhil (Nikhil Pandey) – who can’t tell the difference between blood and sindoor.

Purva’s captor Jalan (Arunoday Singh) demands a huge ransom. The online lessons in weeping that Vikrant took in the previous season go waste. His evil...

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