Sanjay Leela Bhansali's ‘Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar’ Renewed For Season 2
Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 'Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar' has been renewed for a second season.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar’, starring Manisha Koirala, Sonakshi Sinha, Richa Chadha, Aditi Rao Hydari, Sanjeeda Shaikh, and Sharmin Segal, was released on Netflix in May. ‘Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar’, which marked Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s OTT debut series, met with polarising reactions. However, it managed to generate phenomenal viewership. Owing to this, the show is being green-lit for a second season. Yes, you read that right! ‘Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar’ has been renewed for season two by Netflix, as per Variety.
It is important to mention that within the first week of its premiere on May 1, the series made 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 second season was announced at an event at Carter Road, Mumbai, where a flash mob of 100 dancers danced to a medley of songs from the series. Netflix India took to Instagram and shared a video of the same.
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“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 truly their own as a cultural phenomenon — has been hugely energizing and it thrills me to share that we will be back with Season 2,” Variety quoted Monika Shergill, VP, content, Netflix India, as saying.
For the unversed, the first season of 'Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar', spans from 1920 to 1947. The first season is set in the Heeramandi district of Lahore, British India, the milieu of the tawaifs.
The first season was achieved after an intense production process that spanned 350 shooting days, across three years.
“It takes a lot to make a series. This one has taken a lot. After ‘Gangubai’ [Berlinale title “Gangubai Kathiawadi”] released in February 2022, from that to now every single day I have worked without a break. So the responsibility is huge on the series,” Sanjay Leela Bhansali told Variety.
“In ‘Heeramandi 2,’ the women now come from Lahore to the film world. They leave Lahore after the partition and most of them settle in the Mumbai film industry or 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,” he added.
