In the first season of the web series Kaali, Paoli Dam’s titular heroine tackled a drug cartel in Kolkata. In Kaali 2 , which is being str...
In the first season of the web series Kaali, Paoli Dam’s titular heroine tackled a drug cartel in Kolkata. In Kaali 2, which is being streamed on Zee5, Kaali’s battle against the bad guys stretches all over India.
The events of Kaali took place over 24 hours, after Dam’s masseuse decided to traffic drugs to fund her son’s operation. The second season makes life all the more difficult for Kaali. The cast includes Paatal Lok star Abhishek Banerjee and Chandan Roy Sanyal as criminals and Vidya Malvade as a tough police officer.
Kaali and its sequel offer Dam the opportunity to headline a Hindi project after years. The 39-year-old Bengali actor made her Bollywood debut in Vivek Agnihotri’s erotic thriller Hate Story (2012). While the first season of Kaali was shot in Bengali and later dubbed into Hindi, season two was made simultaneously in both languages.
Kaali has been created by Rohan Ghose and Aritra Sen and produced by Bengali actor-filmmaker Parambrata Chatterjee, who played a key role in Sujoy Ghosh’s thriller Kahaani. The Kolkata-set 2012 film, in which a woman’s quest for revenge brings her in the crosshairs of terrorists, intelligence agents and law enforcement officers, is clearly an inspiration for Kaali.
“What attracted me to Kaali’s role was that on the one hand, it was the story of an ordinary woman...
