Category
Film
Tv show
Documentary
Stand-up Comedy
Short Film
View All
Genres
Action
Adventure
Animation
Biography
Comedy
Crime
Documentary
Drama
Family
Fantasy
Film-Noir
Game-Show
History
Horror
Kids
Music
Musical
Mystery
News
Reality-TV
Political
Romance
Sci-Fi
Social
Sports
Talk-Show
Thriller
War
Western
View All
Language
Hindi
Telugu
Tamil
Malayalam
Kannada
Abkhazian
Afar
Afrikaans
Akan
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
Aragonese
Armenian
Assamese
Avaric
Avestan
Aymara
Azerbaijani
Bambara
Bashkir
Basque
Belarusian
Bengali
Bhojpuri
Bislama
Bosnian
Breton
Bulgarian
Burmese
Cantonese
Catalan
Chamorro
Chechen
Chichewa; Nyanja
Chuvash
Cornish
Corsican
Cree
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Divehi
Dutch
Dzongkha
English
Esperanto
Estonian
Ewe
Faroese
Fijian
Finnish
French
Frisian
Fulah
Gaelic
Galician
Ganda
Georgian
German
Greek
Guarani
Gujarati
Haitian; Haitian Creole
Haryanvi
Hausa
Hebrew
Herero
Hiri Motu
Hungarian
Icelandic
Ido
Igbo
Indonesian
Interlingua
Interlingue
Inuktitut
Inupiaq
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kalaallisut
Kanuri
Kashmiri
Kazakh
Khmer
Kikuyu
Kinyarwanda
Kirghiz
Komi
Kongo
Korean
Kuanyama
Kurdish
Lao
Latin
Latvian
Letzeburgesch
Limburgish
Lingala
Lithuanian
Luba-Katanga
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay
Maltese
Mandarin
Manipuri
Manx
Maori
Marathi
Marshall
Moldavian
Mongolian
Nauru
Navajo
Ndebele
Ndebele
Ndonga
Nepali
Northern Sami
Norwegian
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Occitan
Ojibwa
Oriya
Oromo
Ossetian; Ossetic
Other
Pali
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Pushto
Quechua
Raeto-Romance
Romanian
Rundi
Russian
Samoan
Sango
Sanskrit
Sardinian
Serbian
Serbo-Croatian
Shona
Sindhi
Sinhalese
Slavic
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Sotho
Spanish
Sundanese
Swahili
Swati
Swedish
Tagalog
Tahitian
Tajik
Tatar
Thai
Tibetan
Tigrinya
Tonga
Tsonga
Tswana
Turkish
Turkmen
Twi
Uighur
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Venda
Vietnamese
Volapük
Walloon
Welsh
Wolof
Xhosa
Yi
Yiddish
Yoruba
Zhuang
Zulu
View All
Release year
2024
1900
Rating
Must Watch
Good
Passable
Poor
Skip
Yet to Review
View All
Platform
View All
Search

Flames Season 2 Series Review – Clichés Presented Heart-warmingly

By Siddartha Toleti - Oct 20, 2019 @ 07:10 pm
6.75 / 10

Flames Season 2 TV Series Review

BOTTOM LINE: Clichés Presented Heart-warmingly

Rating: 6.75/10

Platform: MxPlayer Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

What Is the Story About?

The season 2 continues to track the journey of Ishita and Rajat as new lovers. What are the problems they face? What happens as a result and how it all ends is what the series is about?

Simultaneously, there is an additional track involving another pair and a teacher. The latter’s coaching institute is under threat of getting removed. How they all come together forms as the overall graph of season 2 of Flames?

Flames Season 2 TV Series Review

Performances?

All the actors are reprising their parts from the first season. It is like an extension to what they have already done. Ritvik Sahore plays the average teen with low self-confidence to perfection yet again. He stays in character throughout and nails the small moments as he did in the first season.

As said above, the role is an extension. So, we have a burst of anger and frustration, come out organically. It has been building from some time it all comes out neatly. Ritvik does a proper job in conveying those emotions.

The only problem with Ritvik is that he is getting typecast. He is playing a similar sort of roles. So, while Ritvik is portraying them well, it is all on a familiar and comfortable terrain that isn’t pushing his acting skills in a newer direction.

Analysis

Apoorva Singh Karki who has directed the first season of Flames returns in the director’s chair for the second as well. It helps in keeping a consistent tone. Also, as he knows the characters and their world inside out, he is able to flash out them well.

Thanks to the presence of the same set of actors, on-screen and the team behind, the second season seamlessly merges into the first one. It is like the second half of a movie.

There pitch-perfect casting and writing is a significant asset of the series which hooks us from the start. However, the second season lacks the magic of innocence of the first one. The runtime and scope have been expanded. Flames 2, seems bigger as a whole, but it doesn’t ignite the same warmth and passion as the previous one. Not that it is entirely absent, but is on a lesser level.

The real deal-breaker for the second season is the penultimate and the climax, episodes. After lots of repetitive and prolonged corny lovey-dovey stuff, we get to the crux here. The topic of depression is brought out neatly through the character of Ishita. When Ishitha asks “Why should I make relationships?”, it strikes an emotional chord. Similarly, child suppression, whereby the child wants to run away from home, are appropriately brought out.

The conclusion to both the core issues are simplistic and fantasy-like, but the way it has been presented via the acting and writing is excellent. It puts across the point and the ends the series on a positive note.

However, the predictable narrative and clichés present throughout are the more prominent issues here. Nothing new is presented for a large part. The ‘chemistry’ angle provided through writing (in conjunction with life) feels a bit muddled like the chemistry itself after the initial simplicity.

The usage of original songs takes away the magical quality of season one. Its intentions with the music are right, but the ‘music’ lacks the depth and heart touching quality.

Overall, Flames 2 is a timely watch for the finale. It is a message that needs to be put across and heard. The flavour and warmth with which it is done are sufficient. And, for that alone, we recommend it. But, in a critical sense, the content in season 2 doesn’t have the same feel or magic of the first one.

Other Artists?

Tanya Maniktala is superb in the role of Ishita. Her character graph and the topic are much fresher and relevant compared to the others. The gradual diminishing of happiness leading to depression is neatly brought out through her role. Tanya has mostly got it right.

Sunakshi Grover and Shivam Kakar continue the same act from the first season. It is the earnestness that shines and makes one overlook the repetitiveness. Deepesh Sumitra Jagdish is fantastic as the teacher cum narrator. His interaction with Rajat and his mother are superbly written and enacted. Neelu Dogra playing Rajat’s mom is adequate.

Flames Season 2 TV Series Review

Music and Other Departments?

Music and background score has been provided by multiple artists that include Tusshar Mallek, Afroz Jahan, and Lalit Pandit. The background score is beautifully done. It sets the right mood for the story. The cinematography by Georgy John is satisfactory. The writing by Kunal Aneja is excellent and is the heart of the series. There are many standout parts where the emotions are brought out excellently through the script.

Highlights?

Final Two Episodes
Message
Writing
Direction
Casting

Drawbacks?

Repetitiveness
Clichés Galore
Feels Lengthy And Dragged In Middle

Did I Enjoy It?

Yes

Will You Recommend It?

Yes

Flames Season 2 Review by Srivathsan Nandhur

We’re hiring!

We are hiring two full-time junior to mid-level writers with the option to work remotely. You need to work a 5-hour shift and be available to write. Interested candidates should email their sample articles to [email protected]. Applications without a sample article will not be considered.