While Amit Sial’s first season of Kathmandu Connection was all about the cat and mouse chase between a vitiated cop and an impervious, slick gangster in the backdrop of the 1993 bomb blasts with oodles of mystery and suspense, the second season only takes it a notch higher with more characters, a more tangled story, a canvas daubed in ill-boding themes and an enhanced sense of bewilderment pertaining to the quasi narratives that have been told before already a countless times.
Sachin Pathak and Siddharth Mishra’s six-episode long crime-thriller series couldn’t quite match up to the brilliance of the first season but it still keeps you interested with it’s breakneck pace, some splashy developments and the show’s proclivity towards retention of older quirks and amalgamating then with some fresh ones.
The second season picks up five years after the events of the preceding season. Shivani Bhatnagar (played by Aksha Pardasany) is now stationed somewhere in London working as a Page 3 journalist, a beat quite unlike her previous stint as an investigative journalist in an attempt to evade her past. Shravan Mishra (played by Anurag Arora) has been alleviated to the rank of a senior police officer and is actively engaged in exterminating miscreants but is visibly discontented with his condescending DCP. Sunny (played by Anshumaan Pushkar) remains incarcerated and is still awaiting to clear his name from the Bombay Blasts but is targeted by his arch-nemisis Wajid (played by Prashant Narayanan).
Samarth Kaushik (played by Amit Sial) has been dishonourably discharged from his duties and is leading a life in the shadows. His daughter hates him now and he is adamant to change things around for himself. With all these characters in place, the story unfurls with the IC-814 hijacking and a tip-off to Shivani Bhatnagar about a devious conspiracy being hatched in the heart of the valley of Kathmandu. Compelled by the circumstances, Shivani packs her bags and reunites with Sunny and then makes her way to Kathmandu where a deleterious fate awaits her.
