I loved watching Sanjay Leela Bhansali's directorial web series, Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar. If yes, a new update regarding the hit show will make you smile. Streaming giant Netflix has renewed the series for a second season, Variety reported. Within the first week of its May 1 launch, the series danced its way up Netflix's worldwide non-English TV chart in 43 countries, becoming the most-viewed Indian series for the streamer globally. Since its launch, the series has reignited in the No. 1 spot in the India Top 10 chart. 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 tawaif. As with the geisha of Japan, tawaifs were trained in music and dance and courted by the nobility. At the show's centre 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. Heeramandi - The Diamond Bazaar Review: Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Netflix Drama Series Receives Mixed Reactions From Critics.

Richa Chadha, Sanjeeda Shaikh, Aditi Rao Hydari, Fardeen Khan, Shekhar Suman, and Taha Shah Badussha are also featured 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 [Berlinale title Gangubai Kathiawadi was released in February 2022, from that now every single day I have worked without a break. So the responsibility is huge on the series," Bhansali told Variety. "In Heeramandi 2, the women now come from Lahore to the film world. They left Lahore after the partition, and most of them settled in the Mumbai film industry or the Kolkata film industry. So that journey in the bazaar remains the same. They still have to dance and sing, but this time for the producers and not for the nawabs. So that's the second season we are planning, let's see where it goes," Bhansali added. Heeramandi – The Diamond Bazaar: First Look of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Series to Be Out On February 1 (Watch Video).

Heeramandi Season 2 Confirmed! Bhansali's Epic Returns to Netflix

 

Heeramandi Season 2 Confirmed by Netflix

Monika Shergill, VP of content, Netflix India, said, "Sanjay Leela Bhansali has intricately woven magic to bring Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar to life. Watching audiences everywhere fall in love with this series- making it their own as a cultural phenomenon- has been hugely energizing, and it thrills me to share that we will be back with Season 2."