In a recent interview, the actors of Paatal Lok Season 2 discussed the season's plot and their character preparation. They then go into some detail regarding the themes, conversations, and some of the things that have changed for this season. Finally, they share the character of Hathi Ram Chaudhary, who stands up for the truth.
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00:00I think that was the that was the first prerequisite you know when we assembled
00:10in the room the writers room and for the second season the first thing I told the
00:15writers was let's just forget everything that has happened they just forget
00:19everything that we have done it's almost like we were writing a new show all
00:23together with this one character or these couple of characters who are
00:28surviving from the first season into the second season apart from that it was
00:32a completely fresh planet
00:58I still sit on the same chair, so nothing has changed in the outside world for him
01:04some things of course have changed in the house, some relationships have gotten a little better
01:09but his basic nature is still the same, but in the story a lot of new things happen
01:21that new challenges come up, it feels like the little experience he had from the old story
01:26the experience he had from the old story is working here but it's getting smaller
01:30something has become bigger than that, one thing which I think is the basic quality of Hathiram
01:37is that he has to know the truth, whether he is able to do something about it or not
01:42he is firm in that, rest a lot of things will be revealed in season 2
01:49There is a character called Meghna Barua, she is a police officer in Nagaland and Hathiram
02:02and Ansari find themselves in Nagaland having to deal with this police officer who is not
02:09very happy about them being here because she feels that they don't really understand the
02:16place but they are men and she's a woman and so she'll have to go through the
02:26casual sexism that comes with being a woman in a police force
02:34What really worked for the first season was that it was a completely fresh way of looking
02:48at things if I may say so myself and a completely fresh story, if you try to give the same thing
02:53to them again saying yeh toh aapko bahut pasand aaya tha na pichli baar, there is a diminishing
02:58marginal utility that comes into play, woh doosri baar mein nahi pasand aayega, what
03:02they liked about it was the freshness, what they liked about it was characters that they
03:06hadn't seen, was storyline that they hadn't seen, a way of looking at things that they
03:11haven't seen, you have to give them the same thing but stick to the values of it that made
03:20it work rather than oh I'm going to repeat this dialogue or I'm going to make this character
03:25do the same thing all over again, rather than that try and find the soul of what worked
03:32in the first season, the things that really made the first season special and try and
03:38give more of that you know
03:45Mujhe lagta hai ki season one mein bhi aapne dekha hua, he never follows that hierarchy
03:49in terms of ke usko majboori baat alag hai but usko havesha se, he is already a very
03:55liberated soul, woh bahut zyada sochta nahi hai, uska apna sahi galat hai aur usme baaki
04:04cheezon ko tarajo pe rakhta hai ki haan main jo sahi kar raha hu uska ek logic hai uske
04:10peeche but I think he is always in the seek of truth, that's it, baaki usko kuch jaana
04:15nahi hai, chahe wo situation ka truth ho, chahe wo insaan ka truth ho, chahe uska koi
04:22bhi, uske aaspaas ki jo bhi duniya hai, usko sirf usse matlab hai ki uska sajh kya hai aur
04:28issi wajah se woh thoda sa mujhe lagta hai ki jis tarah se likha hai, Suri bhai mein woh
04:33bahut upfront hai, usko bahut zyada game scheme karna nahi aata hai, jata hai uske?
04:39Of course jata hai, kyunki mujhe lagta hai koi bhi jo sajh bhoondega thoda sa toh force
04:44jo hai baaki aaspaas ji ki jo nahi chahate ki sajh baar aaye, uske khilaf hoti hai
04:49But what makes him Hathiram special and I mean I love the character and I love
04:53how Jaydeep has played the character and completely made it his own,
04:58bahut spiritually evolved aadmi hai Hathiram, in a very basic sort of way
05:02But you don't see him like that
05:03Yeah, you don't see him like that, you know when we talk of spiritually evolved characters
05:07we think of characters who you know who have very complex philosophies or
05:13Hathiram is not that, you know he's very basic, he's very clear about his right and wrong,
05:18he has a very strong moral compass and he sticks to that
05:21And no force in the world can ever make him change his stance on that
05:26Agar yeh sahi hai toh sahi hai, yeh galat hai toh galat hai
05:28No matter who you are standing in front of him telling him to do the other thing
05:33or to look the other way, he's not going to do that
05:35And that's what I really like about him, you know which is
05:38So when you ask the question of why Hathiram looks exactly the same,
05:43he hasn't changed or he behaves the same
05:45Uh, he's not, he's already reached that place in life
05:50He has already found that
05:52This zen space that we all hope to find in our lives
05:55Now that, oh okay, mera andar yeh restlessness, uske andar restlessness nahi hai
06:00Uske andar ek thairabh hai Hathiram ke andar
06:02Aur usko lagta hai yeh sahi hai toh mai is raste pe jaunga
06:04Aur yeh galat hai toh nahi jaunga
06:06And that's, that's who he is
06:08I'm a huge fan of Paatal Lok, season one
06:19So as a fan, to be a part of this season was really exciting
06:25What I didn't know as a, as a fan of the show
06:29Was the gift that Sudeep's writing is, you know, which I could only experience as an actor
06:38In his show
06:39So when I read, when I read the episodes
06:46Everything, everything is there in the writing
06:50And for an actor, there is nothing greater than that
06:55To play to your strengths and your weaknesses in fact
07:00When you, you know, encounter writing that is so rich
07:08And it, the full stop comes just when you want more
07:13There's an efficiency to the writing
07:16There's a, and even like some things like
07:21Somewhere, you know, Sudeep would write, ouch
07:26I've not seen that in any
07:29So to explain an ouch, you will write three more sentences
07:33That oh shit, this happened and this made you feel this way and ouch
07:36So that, but he didn't write those three sentences, it was just an ouch
07:40And it was exactly, it was exactly what one felt while reading it, you know
07:45So for me, it was just a treat to be able to walk into something
07:52Where every beat was already there in the blueprint