Lock Up 2 Review: When Ekta Kapoor and Kangana Ranaut brought the first season of 'Lockup' in the year 2022, initially many people had rejected it by calling it a 'cheap copy of Bigg Boss'. But gradually this show made a place in the hearts of the audience due to its content. Now, after a long wait of four years, this jail drama is back on the digital screens in a completely new form. This time, the venue of the show has changed. Now it has shifted directly to Netflix and also the rights and hosting command of Jailer has now come out of Kangana's hands and has come to Farah Khan and Riteish Deshmukh. To sum up the entire show, the first week of 'Lockup: Sach Ya Saza' looks to be a very interesting and spicy one with drama, secrets and amazing conflicts in its premiere episode and its next episode.
It has been made clear to the audience from the very first episode that the temperature inside the jail is going to increase further in the coming days. But have Farah and Ritesh together been able to compensate for the sharpness and outspokenness of Kangana Ranaut? Will Kaadi be successful in connecting with the audience this time too? So let us discuss this in detail.
This time the makerslockup 2'The entire game plan and concept has been changed a bit. The biggest attraction of this season is the prisoners getting freedom from the marks or tags imposed on them. Whatever labels the outside world or fans have put on these celebrities (like someone is very innocent, someone is very arrogant, someone is a liar, someone is a liar), through the task of staying inside this jail, they have to prove themselves innocent and uproot that tag. In the very first episode, the makers played a very clever game, which was called 'Confidential or Expose' card. The prisoners had to choose one of these cards, under which they had to either tell a big and deep secret of their life to their cell-mate in private, or 'expose' it in front of the whole world. This new twist added so much emotion and high-voltage drama to the show on the very first day that discussion about it has already started on social media. Apart from this, this time the prisoners have been kept in pairs i.e. cell-mates, and the interesting thing is that most of the prisoners have chosen their companions themselves. Now it remains to be seen whether this self-chosen friendship turns into loyalty in the future or the prison tasks turn them into sworn enemies.
This time, the army of jail prisoners that has been prepared is really worthy of praise. The makers have created such a cocktail of content from big TV stars to social media and Splitsvilla that is really worth watching.
Big TV superstar Ram Kapoor made it clear on the very first day that he has not come to this jail to bow before anyone or lower his status. At the same time, Harshad Chopra, who has always played the role of a cultured boy on TV, seemed ready to reveal the real part of his life in this show, which he had been hiding for years. It was very emotional for Harshad to reveal his secret during 'Confidential Card'.
Akanksha Chamola grabbed the biggest limelight of the first episode. On the stage of the premiere itself, she made such a big disclosure about her divorce and separation from TV actor Gaurav Khanna that everyone was stunned. On the basis of her bubbly and over-the-top (OTT) personality, Akanksha has cemented her place in just two days, now it will be interesting to see how much trouble her loudness will cause in the future.
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Contestants like Shreya Kalra and Sufi Motiwala expressed their strong opinions on the very first day and showed that they are not the ones to remain silent in front of a big star cast. Shivangi Joshi, who has always been accused of wearing a 'mask of innocence', has also hinted that the audience will also get to see her sharp side in this jail. Apart from these, Govinda's wife Sunita Ahuja was seen in her usual unfiltered and candid style, which is the life of any reality show.
In this show of Farah Khan and Riteish Deshmukh, Dheeraj Dhoopar has entered the jail to break his old chocolate boy image, while Splitsvilla fame Akanksha Choudhary and Yogesh Rawat are also a part of the show, and where these two are there, the talk cannot be complete without drama.
It was not easy to match the benchmark that Kangana Ranaut had set with her outspokenness in the first season. But when the show came to Netflix, the pairing of Farah Khan and Riteish Deshmukh as new hosts has brought a completely fresh vibe. This pair is already tried and tested in the world of reality shows.
While Farah Khan was seen holding a class of prisoners with her familiar one-liners and harsh temper, Riteish Deshmukh handled the show beautifully with his serious yet cheeky style. The tuning between the two is amazing. As much fun as he is, he also seemed to be equally strict about the rules. Since we have seen both of them hosting many shows before, at some places the same old familiar style is seen, which reduces the newness a bit. Initially it seemed that Ritesh and Farah would not be able to control contestants like Ram Kapoor and Sunita Ahuja, but seeing the way Ritesh controlled Ram Kapoor, who created a drama over water in the episode after the premiere, it shows that Lockup 2 is running on the right track.
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Contestants like Varun Yadav and Riyaz may have a strong fan following outside, but in front of these big and tough contestants, they will have to make a lot of efforts to stay in the game. Contestants like Madhuri Grover, Pamela Serena and Shrestha Iyer looked completely pale and calm in the first week. If she doesn't change her game soon, she will be completely lost in this huge crowd. Seeing some tasks and rules, you get the same old and typical reality show feel. Unless the makers bring some completely different and shocking twist, this old thing will not disappear completely.
If these minor shortcomings are left aside, then the first week of 'Lockup Season 2' has completely lived up to the expectations. The biggest strength of the show is its strong and unique list of contestants. If you are also a fan of drama, gossip and unfiltered entertainment, then this new jail drama that started on Netflix has the power to make your weekend completely spicy.
