Prakash Jha’s Aashram is back with the mantra of more – further shenanigans by the godman around whom the web series is centred, greater d...
Prakash Jha’s Aashram is back with the mantra of more – further shenanigans by the godman around whom the web series is centred, greater despair among his victims, higher stakes for his hunters.
In the process, we gain some extra knowledge about the man who was born Monty Singh and now goes by the grand title Kashipura Wale Baba Nirala, but not too much. The team behind the MX Player show is having too much fun providing fresh evidence of Nirala’s debauchery in the present to delve into his shady past. There are stirrings of rebellion against the self-styled spiritual leader and his empire of piety, but his dethronement is reserved for subsequent seasons.
Based on a story by Habib Faisal, Aashram stars Bobby Deol in a career-defining role as the magnetic and opaque Nirala. At the end of the first season, Nirala and his chief enforcer Bhopa (Chandan Roy Sanyal) had prevailed over their opponents. Nirala and Bhopa had the chief minister and his political rival on tenterhooks ahead of a crucial election. Nirala had persuaded a brainwashed devotee to undergo castration as an act of purification and then raped his wife Babita (Tridha Choudhury).
The quartet trying to expose the charlatan had made little...
