Sunflower Season 2 Review: Sunil Grover and Adah Sharma’s comic thriller is a dried-up continuation to an already tepid show

Cast: Sunil Grover, Adah Sharma, Ashish Vidyarthi, Ranvir Shorey, Mukul Chaddha

Director: Vikas Bahl, Navin Gujral, Rahul Sengupta

Language: Hindi

Sunflower was a dried-up comic thriller that unfolded in an apartment where a murder unfolded. A nagging and narcissistic man was eliminated by his neighbor when he became pain in their butts. The method was simple yet calculative, poisoning his coconut water. He dies while taking a dump and an investigation begins. Ranvir Shorey and Sunil Grover are fine actors, but the disjointed screenplay and haphazard humor never allowed the season to bloom properly.

Three years later, the show steps into season two, and joining the pandemonium is Adah Sharma. She plays Rosie, and there’s something mysterious about her aura, and she brings a certain amount of raunchiness with her character. Grover and Sharma pair up well, but again, the show’s relentlessness to deviate from the main plot is its biggest flaw. The giveaway is already in season one, all we have to see is how the culprits are caught and their covers are blown.

Created by Vikas Bahl and directed by Navin Gujral, Sunflower tries to pack in way too many things into one season, mainly to create a complete package, so we get Grover’s conflicts in the office, at his apartment, his personal desires, and of course, a mystery at the centre he gets embroiled in. He’s a motormouth, and Rosie, played by Sharma, is verbally reckless too. After a point, watching the show feels pointless since we know way too much than we should have. Bahl, who carved out the fantastic Queen and the idiosyncratic Shaandaar, is surprisingly out of depth here. Let’s see what he brings out next.

But what comes out unscathed out of the mess is Grover, whose talent isn’t getting the kind of stories he deserves or needs.

Sunflower season two is now streaming on Zee5