“To set an evil empire ablaze, one has to light a fire. But what if the fire burns me down with it?” says Aditya Roy Kapur’s Shaan Sengupta in the trailer for the second part of Disney+ Hotstar’s Indian adaptation of The Night Manager. In part two, which, to be clear, isn’t Season Two, the secret agent Shaan will further cement his relationship with the notorious arms dealer Shelly Rungta (Anil Kapoor), after successfully infiltrating his inner circle in part one. The Night Manager is based on the acclaimed 2016 British series starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie, which in turn was adapted from John le Carré’s 1993 spy novel.
In the new trailer, Shelly, described as “the most dangerous man in the world,” welcomes Shaan into his “family” after being impressed with Shaan’s track record of evading authorities. In part one, Shaan won Shelly’s trust by successfully exploiting his only vulnerability and “rescuing” his son in a staged kidnapping. Shaan, a former Navy officer who’d switched careers to the hospitality industry after witnessing the murder of a child bride, was recruited to bring Shelly to justice by his handler, played by Tillotama Shome. The character was played by Olivia Colman in the original series.
As Shaan collects intelligence on Shelly, he begins attracting suspicion. We also get a glimpse of his evolving romance with Shelly’s girlfriend, played by Sobhita Dhulipala. Her personal arc was only teased in part one, and we should get a resolution in the new batch of episodes. The two-minute trailer ends with Shelly making a veiled threat to Shaan, who finds himself cornered in the arms dealer’s unfamiliar (and dangerous) world. “There’s a mole among us,” Shelly says menacingly. “Is it you, Shaan?”
Kapoor, one of the most well-respected Bollywood stars of his generation, was clearly having a ball playing the mostly irredeemable character in Part one. The role marks a bit of a departure for Kapoor, who is best known for playing genial heroes in Hindi movies, although Western audiences that watched him in Slumdog Millionaire and Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol would have a different perspective. On the heels of part one’s release, Kapoor spoke to Collider about finding the humanity in his character.
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