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A big, fat 'F you'
Updated On: 29 March, 2020 10:36 AM IST | Mumbai | Aastha Atray Banan
Back with a second season, Sumukhi Suresh in and as Pushpavalli, raises relevant questions on low self-worth, oddball chemistry between the sexes and why it's okay to be grey

Sumukhi Suresh, comic and actor
The second season of Pushpavalli starts with actor and writer Sumukhi Suresh dressed up for her engagement. Her eyes are welled up when her mother walks in and says, "Started? Every time, something good happens, you have to cry. This boy doesn't even mind that you are plump." But Pushpavalli, as always, is faking it. Once her mother leaves the room, she is back to her old ways—lying, scheming, manipulating. All because the object of her affection, businessman Nikhil Rao, doesn't reciprocate her love. And once again, you are hooked.
If season one of the web series was about Pushpavalli Parsuraman stalking and wooing Rao, and following him all the way to Bengaluru, season two is about revenge after he shuns her—by making him feel jealous. The revenge of the fat girl, who as the show reveals is not always nice. "People relate to Pushpavalli not because she is a stalker, but because she is insecure. Women get it immediately. Even the prettiest and skinniest ones feel insecure [at some point]," says Suresh.


