In season two of the Netflix comedy series Maamla Legal Hai, change is in the air. The canny lawyer VD Tyagi (Ravi Kishan) is now a principal district judge at the fictitious Patparganj court, sworn to uphold the law rather than bend it. After the BC and AD eras, it’s the VD era, Tyagi brags. But life on the other side of the witness stand is not so pliable.

Tyagi is accused of bias simply because he bares his teeth too freely. He is loath to abandoning his glad-handing ways. Tyagi often seeks out the other newly appointed principal district judge, the seasoned and pragmatic Kailash (Dibyendu Bhattacharya).

Tyagi’s former employees, including Balli (Anjum Batra) and Sujata (Nidhi Bisht), are struggling to adapt too. Although they now have their own prized chamber, they spend most of their time squabbling with each other.

Pro bono queen Ananya (Naila Grrewal) continues to fight the good fight, representing a man wronged by his deodorant brand even after he confuses “sexist” for “sexiest”. Ananya has competition in the bleeding heart department from Nayana (Kusha Kapila). The women compete for the kind of absurd cases that burden Indian courts.

Taking off from actual litigation, Maamla Legal Hai looks at the lighter side of the legal system....

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