Directed by : Gurmmeet Singh (7 episodes) and Mihir Desai (4 episodes)

Jeet ki gurantee tabhi hai jab, jeet aur haar dono tumhare control mein ho.


Spoilers ahead...

A total revenge saga is what 2nd season is. Guddu Pandit (Ali Fazal) seeks revenge of the death of his brother Bablu Pandit (Vikrant Massey) and wife Sweety Gupta (Shriya Pilgaonkar). Golu Gupta (Shweta Tripathi) who loved Bablu and was sister of Sweety, joins him. Then there's Sharad Shukla (Anjum Sharma) whose father was killed by Guddu, and besides he is after the throne of Mirzapur too very much like Guddu. And in all this Munna Tripathi (Divyendu Sharma) tries to help his father Akhandanand Tripathi (Pankaj Tripathi) in the upcoming elections as he tries to get a strong ministry. 


Unlike the 1st season, this one goes in a very slow pace despite the very quick start with that dreamy sequence that for a moment felt like are they doing Hannibal Season2 by showing the glimpse of end directly. The whole political game is what that holds this season for me, and the revenge angle unfortunately goes to the backseat. Most of the blame however goes to the addition of twin brothers, Tyagi (Vijay Varma) which derails the narrative. Only positive that comes out of this character is that you know Golu will have a very tough time in Season3. 



My issue was this hampered the main plot which was Revenge of Bablu and Sweety death, we get one face-off scene where Guddu single handedly

was proving too much for both Munna and Sharad, but there's nothing after that. Infact the narrative goes so many places in every episode that when the scene of Guddu-Golu comes, you got to ask yourself where were they last time and where exactly their plans are going on now. If not for Tyagi whole story, this wont have been an issue and same with Sharad who starts off on such a brilliant note in 1st episode, or his meeting with Munna and later getting the trust of Akhandanand but then he suddenly disappears and returns in last episode making that final move, the motive of which we will learn in Season3.

The best part was Munna and Madhuri Yadav (an excellent Isha Talwar) romantic angle and also a sense of responsibility that comes to Munna. It made his character more human, and just a tiny bit of emotions shift towards him when he gets killed. JP Yadav (Pramod Pathak) gave feels of GOW2 Tigmanshu's son and almost pulled off the similar success before getting thrown out. Bauji (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) and Beena Tripathi (Rasika Dugal) story was perfectly done this season, love the plotting Beena does and also how she stops Maqbool (Shaji Chaudhary), wanting to kill Bauji herself. 


I totally enjoyed addition of Robin (Priyanshu Painyuli) character, bit suspicious early on and his constant 'yeh bhi theek hai' was fun. Also, his love angle with Dimpy (Harshita Gaur) made for atleast someone who isn't violent in this series. However, the mystery about his mother makes me wonder if there's a dark twist coming to this story too. Also, Dibyendu Bhattacharya provided some lovely light moments playing a doctor trapped under Golu-Guddu, trying to get his leg working again. Sad to see the end he and his family goes through.

Shabnam's (Shernavaz Jijiza) feelings developing for Guddu felt very sudden to me, almost as if she always had liked him. Ramakant Pandit (Rajesh Tailang) and Inspector RS Maurya (Amit Sial) joining together to go against Tripathi's was fun, though I didn't see Ramankant killing Maurya coming. 

Pankaj Tripathi somehow felt lost to me in this season, again the culprit been how the story moves to so many characters. He does still have some moments to shine, and the end gives me hope of something special from his side in next season. Shweta Tripathi too felt offtrack, didn't like her character's way of dealing with the trauma. Ali Fazal was in form again, liked how they made him have action scenes with one leg not fully working yet and still powerful enough to get that Mirzapur throne. But, his greed makes me feel he might be having a downfall in next season. 

Mirzapur2 may not have lived upto the standards of 1st season, still it was good enough for me, specially the political angle inserted, few good addition of characters, some good old sub-plots finished, few new sub-plots that have scope of lots more in next Season. Maybe Season2 is just gonna act as a catalyst for a very powerful new season.

My Rating : 6.5/10