Made in Heaven Season 2: Zoya Akhtar wanted to 'lens this show through women, LGBTQ community'

Filmmaker Zoya Akhtar on Tuesday said that Made In Heaven season two will continue to train its lens on issues revolving around women and the LGBTQ community through its two protagonists who run a wedding planning agencySet against the backdrop of quintessential Indian weddings the first chapter revolved around two wedding planners Arjun Mathurs Karan Mehra and Sobhita Dhulipalas Tara Khanna navigating the big fat and often complicated Indian weddings while balancing conflicts in their own lifeThe second season of Made in Heaven according to Akhtar who has created the series with Reema Kagti will see Dhulipala and Mathurs characters with a strong moral compassThe central two characters of the season are Tara and Karan they are nonconformists and quite grey They come with a sense of protectiveness in a sense about someone that comes into their lives they have a strong moral compassWe also lens this show through women through the LGBTQ community so its an expansion of that thematically Its been about fitting into society Akhtar told reporters here at the trailer launch of the Prime Video seriesKagti said they are obsessed with exploring different experiences of women in societyWe are trying to explore different aspects of female experience in a society like us which is rooted in culture and is changing and modernising I think we are obsessed with exploring different female angles she addedThe sevenepisode season two is directed by Kagti and Akhtar along with Alankrita Shrivastava Neeraj Ghaywan and Nitya Mehra Shrivastava said though they carry forward the core theme of Made in Heaven in season two the scale is biggerWe carry forward the things and core of the show but our endeavour with season two was to be more grand with the wedding and deeper with the characters So it is a more nuanced and layered look at the themes that we did in season one Its more of what you saw and is more poignant and more fun she saidThere is love family togetherness and romance that one holds dear but there is also much to change like actualisation of how women are changing and we explore how tradition meets modernity she addedThe first season of Made in Heaven came out in 2019 and received critical acclaim for its storytelling and performances by the lead castThe show earned Mathur an International Emmy nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of a closeted gay man grappling with a troubled childhood depleting finances and social stigma around his orientationAkhtar said the team didnt expect the first season to be widely loved by audiences and thanked people for patiently waiting for its second chapterNobody knew how it will land We were extremely nervous when it came out But it picked up and picked up It has got a loyal fandom no matter what I post I am asked about Made in Heaven Now its been so long Im being trolled so I wanted to drop because they were getting irritated Im thankful to them that they have held on to it and havent forgotten itFor Mathur who is also known for Luck By Chance Bara Aana My Name is Khan and Ankur Arora Murder Case the show turned out to be his big breakthroughHe said he didnt expect his character to make an impact on the lives of people but it did He credited the writers for giving him a welldefined roleWhen you start doing something it is never with expectations of how much the audience will really connect with it or not I am grateful for that but a lot of credit goes to writers I didnt expect it to connect the way it did I was quite overwhelmedAll the personal stories that came to me and how it enabled so many people and gave them strength to kind of accept themselves or members of their families he saidDhulipala said it has been a privilege and honour to play a woman like Tara an ambitious gogetter struggling to navigate her marriage and a fledgling businessIn the second season while she continues to fulfil her role as a daughter daughterinlaw and business partner to the best of her capacity I do think she is up for a major identity transformation and charting that journey is what we will see in season two Its her comingofage coming into her own in a new capacity and thats very thrillingBesides Dhulipala and Mathur the series also features Jim Sarbh Kalki Koechlin Shashank Arora Shivani Raghuvanshi and Vijay Raaz The newcomers include Mona Singh Ishwak Singh and Trinetra HaldarMade In Heaven season two will premiere on August 10 It is produced by Excel Media amp Entertainment and Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagtis Tiger BabyThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever