Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya 2

Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya 2 is an Indian drama television series that premiered on 15 March 2021 on Star Bharat. It is a sequel to the 2009 series "Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya" which aired on Star Plus. Produced by Rajan Shahi under Director's Kut Productions, it stars Pooja Gor and Arhaan Behll.
Plot.
9 Years Later.
Pratigya is an established public prosecutor of Prayagraj. The Thakur family has now given up all criminal activities and lead a happy and content life. Shakti's sons, Samar and Girish are fiercely jealous of Garv. They lock him in a car, which loses control and hits Balwant Tyagi's young son. Garv tells Krishna but both hide it from Pratigya. Profoundly grieved by his son's demise, Balwant seeks revenge from those who killed his son. Balwant hires Pratigya as a prosecuter, to fight the legal battle of his son's death. Elsewhere, Krishna hides the truth from the family, and tries to destroy all the evidence which can pose a threat for Garv.
Balwant feels restless when Pratigya fails to collect evidence and spoils her holi celebration. Sajjan Singh confronts Balwant and asks him to stay in his limits. On the other hand, Krishna's friend Aadarsha is introduced who will fall in love with Komal. Krishna spikes Pratigya's drink and makes her utter pivotal information. Later, Krishna makes one of his accomplices take entire blame on himself, but this plan fails. Further, Balwant frames Shakti in charge of his son's murder. Soon, Pratigya learns about Garv’s accident and tells the family they made a mistake hiding it as it’s an accident and not a murder. Krishna believes Pratigya after she swears on Garv that nothing will happen to the latter. Later, Pratigya, Krishna and Garv go to the court and tell them about Garv. The Judge then tells Pratigya that since he is only seven years old, it treated as an accident. But, Krishna would be arrested for a short period of time for tampering with evidence. While he is arrested and bids goodbye to Pratigya and his family, Komal slaps Pratigya and blames her for the arrest of her own husband. Soon Sajjan is told that Krishna is in hospital. They go to hospital and Krishna is saved.
After some days, Krishna is discharged from hospital and Singhs decide to go to a farmhouse so that Krishna recovers fastly. Sumitra weaves a plan with Komal to throw Pratigya out of Singh mansion. She poisons Pratigya's juice. A new girl Meera is introduced. On the other hand Pratigya's health is Deteriorating constantly. During her anniversary she falls. When she consulted to Doctors about it they informed her that she is suffering from blood cancer and will die soon. On the other hand Meera start to have feeling for Krishna. On the advice of Thakurain Pratigya starts searching for a good wife for Krishna and mother for her kids. Thakurain comes to know Komal's love for Aadarsh and makes a plan to separate Komal and Aadarsh as well as Krishna and Pratigya. Pratigya informs Aadarsh about her Blood cancer and Thakurain locks Pratigya and Aadarsh in a room as per her plan. Krishna finds Pratigya in Aadarsh's room and Komal was about to slap Pratigya but he stopped her and said that he believes her more than himself and leaves whereas Komal threat Thakurain that she will reveal to Krishna that Sumitra is giving poison to Pratigya if she did not allow her to get married to Aadarsh. Whereas Adarsh deny love for Komal to her. And Pratigya and Aadarh marry each other and Pratigya refer Krishna as uneducated goon and Krishna promises Pratigya to hate her forever and burns her belongings and marries Meera to make Pratigya jealous and it is revealed in the reports that Pratigya is not having cancer and Amma is giving her poison.
Production.
Development and premiere.
In early 2013, "Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya" was confirmed returning with a new season on StarPlus based on story of lead character Pratigya and Krishna's daughters. Neha Marda was roped as one of the leads and the pilot episode was shot and approved by the channel but the series was dropped when the discussions between the production house and channel stalled.
The reruns of "Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya" during the lockdown of COVID-19 were garnering good response on Star Plus which made the channel to bring back the series.
In February 2021, Pratigya 2 was planned and soon confirmed with a return on Star Bharat with a new season for which Pearl Grey stated, "Pratigya Season 2 was supposed to happen right after we wrapped the first season, but it got delayed considerably. Over the years, I kind of gave up hope for Pratigya 2. However, fans and viewers constantly demanded the show's return. The re-runs during the lockdown were much appreciated, and that’s when the channel decided to bring the show back. Merely in a span of a month, the return of the show with season 2 was planned. Everything was discussed and meetings were held, and the rest is history."
Pearl Grey, the writer and producer of the former season collaborated with Rajan Shahi for this season as creative producer. 
Talking about it, Shahi stated, "DKP in collaboration with Pearl will retain all the best of what worked in season 1, but season 2 will also have surprise packages of new relevance, the story, and also a fresh cast which is being added to the already great, remarkable, and talented cast of season 1."
On 23 February 2021, production of the series began in Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh. 
The team had a havan on the sets of series for an auspicious beginning for their new journey before they started shoot in Mumbai.
Release.
The first promo of the series was released on 28 February 2021 featuring Pooja Gaur and Anupam Shyam reprising their roles of Pratigya and Thakur Sajjan Singh from the former season.
The next promo released on 12 March 2021 featured Arhaan Behll reprising his role of Krishna Singh from the former season.
Casting.
With the release of first promo, Pooja Gaur and Anupam Shyam were confirmed reprising their roles of Pratigya and Thakur Sajjan Singh from the former season.
Arhaan Behll was also confirmed reprising his role of Krishna Singh from the former series.
Asmita Sharma, Parvati Sehgal and Aalika Sheikh reprise their respective roles of Thakurain, Komal and Kesar from the former season. Sachal Tyagi was cast as Shakti Singh which was earlier played by Jaswant Menaria in the former season.
Supriya Kumari initially auditioned for the role of Chetan Hansraj character's wife but was later cast as Hansraj's character's brother's wife by the makers.
Filming.
Based on the backdrop of Uttar Pradesh, set in Prayagraj, the series is mainly filmed at Film city in Mumbai.
Besides some of the initial sequences were shot in Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh in February 2021.
On 13 April 2021, Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray announced a sudden curfew due to increased Covid cases, while the production halted from 14 April 2021. Soon, the team of the series decided to move their shooting location to Silvasa in Dadra and Nagar Haveli until the next hearing.
Reception.
Critics.
"Republic World" appreciated the chemistry of the leads Pooja Gaur and Arhaan Behll along with their performances and also praised the series for portraying a strong female character.