Despite all the drama, there's an uncomfortable silence throughout the second season of Biswa Kalyan Rath's Laakhon Mein Ek. Much of this arises from its fast-paced editing, but also from a certain amount of ignorance that can be attributed to the urban viewer. We're all familiar with corruption dropped like a pinch of salt into every industry — be it education, banking or the health sector. What this season does is use Sitlapur village as a microcosm of the country, through the story of Dr Shreya Pathare (Shweta Tripathi). It unravels the mechanics of corruption through the demand and supply of medical supplies.

Directed by Abhishek Sengupta, each of the eight episodes in the series varies between 20 to 30 minutes. Compared to the first season, which premiered in October 2017, where Rath, an IITian himself, delved into the IIT coaching crisis, the storyline here takes a while to grow on the viewer despite maintaining a similar visual tone with the dark setting. The series is now available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video.