Actor Priyamani is pleased that ladies have identified with her character of Suchitra ‘Suchi’ Iyer and her dilemma as a spouse uninterested in being the one caretaker of her household within the well-liked internet sequence “The Family Man”. While season one of many Amazon Prime Video present adopted Suchi, unaware that her husband, Srikant Tiwari (Manoj Bajpayee) nonetheless works as an intelligence officer, the second season chronicled the character’s frustration of not getting alongside with her teenage daughter Dhriti (Ashlesha Thakur) whereas additionally making an attempt to make her marriage work.
Priyamani stated her try was to flesh out Suchi’s dilemma with sincerity in order that it resonates with girls who discover themselves in an identical scenario of eager to open up however being continuously burdened by emotional baggage.
“A lot of women have identified with how Suchi wants to talk, wants somebody to listen to what she’s going through but is not able to, which is what happens in a lot of households because what they want is somebody who would listen,” the 37-year-old actor advised PTI.
“Whatever dilemma she’s going by, she desires to speak to Srikant, however he’s doing his job of defending the nation.
So he’s not capable of give as a lot time as wanted to speak with his household,” Priyamani added.
The newest season noticed Srikant and his crew struggle a brand new, brutal adversary named Raaji, essayed by South star Samantha Akkineni.
Whereas, on the house entrance, Srikant’s crumbling relationship with Suchi was one of many highlights of the sequence.
In season one, the sequence had hinted at the potential of Suchi straying in her relationship with her buddy and colleague, Arvind (performed by Sharad Kelkar) when the 2 go on a piece journey to Lonavala.
While the second season nonetheless didn’t provide any readability on what really transpired between the 2, Suchi’s guilt was continuously alluded to within the present, created by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK.
The sequence finale ended on a cliffhanger, with Suchi lastly mustering the braveness to confide in Srikant.
“When I read the scenes, especially the last one in the finale episode, I was blown away. I was thinking ‘Is Suchi going to say what has happened or not going to say it?’ Raj sir said ‘let’s leave it to the audience!” Priyamani stated.
But followers of the present have been left stressed with the uncertainty.
The query “Lonavala mein kya hua tha?” (What occurred in Lonavala?), the actor stated has now turn into an equal of “Why did Katttappa kill Baahubali?”- a query that captured followers’ consideration when filmmaker SS Rajamouli’s first film within the two-part “Baahubali” sequence ended on a cliffhanger.
“This is a never-ending question! Everyone, even in season two, wanted to know what happened in Lonavala. I get at least 15-20 messages on my social media (every day), asking ‘Lonavala mein kya hua tha? Please tell us, we won’t tell anyone’,” she stated.
Priyamani stated the makers had been fully unaware that the thriller of what allegedly occurred between Suchi and Arvind would blow up and proceed to garner fan curiosity.
“We never thought this would be a topic of discussion that it has become today! I thought the title being ‘The Family Man’, everybody would talk about the problems Srikant faces to protect our country, but this has completely gone to another level,” she added.
Priyamani stated whereas many of the dialogues had been written within the script, loads of the quirks had been improvised on set, due to Bajpayee.
A memorable scene of the couple from this season’s trailer was when Srikant pauses to Google the that means of “sham” in the midst of an argument after Suchi says their marriage is a sham.
In one other one, the place Suchi takes Srikant to her counsellor (performed by late Asif Basra), he loses his cool when he feels the counsellor is merely mouthing philosophical quotes. In response, Srikant mocks him by reciting random well-liked Hindi movie dialogues, coupled with expletives.
“The counsellor sequences were shot in one day. But the part where Manoj sir replies in quotes, naming movies, if you closely watch the scene, you can see me trying to hold my laughter. We had to do 8-9 retakes just for that particular bit because every time he started his line, I would burst out laughing!”
“I told Raj sir that they would have to shoot the scene with me separately because I just wasn’t able to control my laughter.
That one take where I tried to control my laughter is what you see on the screen now,” she added.