Jehanabad of love and war season 2

Jehanabad: Of Love And War authentically captures Bihar's political skullduggery and caste violence, observes Deepa Gahlot. The idea of youthful radicalism and armed struggles against an unjust establishment has been with Sudhir Mishra since his first film, Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin (1987). He returned to it with his best known film, Hazaaron Khwahishen Aisi (2003). Now, he is the show-runner for Jehanabad: Of Love And War, set in the Naxal belt of Bihar. Even from behind bars, Deepak keeps in touch with his group, with the help of prison staff, sympathetic to his cause of fighting for the upliftment of their caste. As violence simmers in the background, chirpy college student Kasturi Mishra (Harshita Gaur), fed on a diet of romantic movies, falls in love with the new English professor, Abhimanyu Singh (Ritwik Bhowmik). She is so persistent in wooing him that he falls in love with her too, and this sets off a chain of unfortunate events. North India, Bihar in particular, is a tinderbox of corrupt, caste-based politics, and in this charged atmosphere, Thakur Shivanand Singh (Rajat Kapoor) is hoping to win back his seat from the sitting lower caste MLA (Nirmal Kant Chaudhary). The ruthless Shivanand Singh, who is pleasant and approachable on the surface, is a close friend of Kasturi's father Rajendra Mishra (Rajesh Jais), who runs the prison canteen. Kasturi's mother Kumud (Sonal Jha) has trouble accepting an inter-caste marriage for her daughter, but once she is persuaded, sh...