Sampurna 2: Web Series Review
- ★
- ★
- ★
- ★
- ★
Sohini Sarkar fights for her personal battle in Sayantan Ghosal’s web series Sampurna 2: Web Series Review
About the Story
After the incidents of the first season, Sampurna and Nandini have to fight against their former in-laws to get the justice that she deserves. However, when the court system proves to be difficult to win over at first, in comes Sampurna’s uncle to save Nandini from embarrassment and further trauma. Although he helps Nandini immensely, his connection with Nandini’s past makes him a thorn in her life. When past trauma bubbles to the surface, will Sampurna be able to find peace and vanquish the fears that have haunted her since childhood?
About the Casts
The web series features feature Sohini Sarkar, Rajnandini Paul, Laboni Sarkar, Anubhav Kanjilal, and Prantik Banerjee.
About the Director
The web series have been directed by Sayantan Ghosal
Web Series Review
Sampurna‘s first season was quite an interesting watch. The series captured the horrors of marital rape and domestic violence without going overboard with the drama and was nuanced enough not to make things predatory or awkward. The second season strays away from Nandini’s story and focuses on Sampurna, whose past trauma comes up all of a sudden in the first scene of the second season, and then we get busy unwrapping childhood trauma and horrible scars from the past.
With excellent performances and literally no good male characters, Sampurna 2 might be triggering for audiences who have gone through similar situations. Sampurna 2 handles the sensitive nature of the case nicely and doesn’t forget the fact that it’s literally dealing with children at the end of the day. Her fear and stress around her uncle are very well done and quite realistic, might I add. You can’t help but be tensed about the mental anguish she might be going through after facing her abuser.
There are tense moments wherein you will sit at the edge of your seat and wonder what will happen next, but the series goes from a homely situation to something a bit too high up in the second season. With the success of the first season, I guess it was necessary to up the ante and deliver something even more shocking. And even though child abuse is a very important topic, one that really needs to be addressed, it comes up quite out of the blue in the second season.
First things first, shining light on something that is so important is never a bad thing. How children get abused at the hands of their close ones at home and elsewhere needs to be told. How people try to keep things under wraps in such situations, especially at home, is also an important point. Although dramatic, the series at least tries its best not to make things dirty, which sometimes shows with social commentaries often have the bad habit of doing. You can relate to Sampurna’s character in this season as well as she fights for something that is close to her heart.
Verdict:
The web series streaming on Hoichoi on 29th September. Bengali Film Reviews brings latest news and reviews on Bengali movies and web series. Be sure to visit Bengali Film Reviews for more entertainment coverages and updates.