Streaming giant Netflix has renewed Sanjay Leea Bhansali’s Heermandi for a second season. The news was broken by Variety on Monday morning before Netflix and Bhansali confirmed it later in the day. The filmmaker and the streaming giant shared a video of a flash mob in Mumbai with dancers dressed as the show’s courtesans.
The video ended with the message: Heeramandi will return with season 2. Within the first week of its May 1 launch, the series danced its way up the Netflix's worldwide non-English TV chart in 43 countries, becoming the most-viewed Indian series for the streamer globally. The series has been reigning in the No.
1 spot in the India Top 10 chart since its launch. Spanning 1920 through 1947, when the subcontinent was partitioned into India and Pakistan, Season 1 of the lavish story is set in the Heeramandi district of Lahore, British India, the milieu of the tawaifs. As with the geisha of Japan, tawaifs were trained in music and dance and courted by nobility.
At the show's center are Mallikajaan (Manisha Koirala), the scheming queen of Heeramandi, and her vindictive niece Fareedan (Sonakshi Sinha), who has ambitions to take her aunt's place. Richa Chadha, Sanjeeda Shaikh, Aditi Rao Hydari, Sharmin Segal, Fardeen Khan, Shekhar Suman, and Taha Shah Badussha also feature in the show. On expanding the series, Bhansali said, "It takes a lot to make a series.
This one has taken a lot. After Gangubai Kathiawadi released in February 2022, from that to now every singl.
