Akarsh Khurana on Mismatched Season 2: It was a strange homecoming for everybody

Akarsh Khurana, who directed the second season of Mismatched, needed an extra year and a half to build on the success of the first season. He believes that the time in between allowed the cast and crew, as well as himself, to grow and mature. The newly released season of the drama about relationships begins the morning after Dimple (Prajakta Kohli), who had broken up with Rishi (Rohit Saraf), kisses Harsh (Vihaan Samat).

According to Khurana, the pandemic transformed everyone. In an interview with Mid Day, the director said it was hard to tell the difference between how people changed and what would have happened if they had a normal graph. He also said that his cast had to recover from the huge response to season one. For everyone, it was a surreal homecoming. While everyone had found employment in the interim, Khurana planned to recapture the spirit of the Netflix series by organising a team lunch when discussions of the second edition started.

It was crucial to reiterate that tone and equation. Khurana says that even though they were playing the same characters, they came back with a new sense of interest. The series shows the effects of that time, she says. More than anything else, that was critical to maintaining the mood.

Khurana knew how hard it was to make a new season of a popular show because he was a writer himself. The director says that one of the most important parts of writing was getting feedback from the actors on their individual character graphs.

He thought the second season's writing process was interesting. Every character that the audience connected with the need to be treated fairly as we moved the plot ahead. They could not have been careless. Khurana acknowledges that his actors' contributions improved the screenplay even though he would have preferred that his actors not have a strong opinion about it. They are better at analysing characters than he is. All of the actors had a chance to talk about the journeys of all of the characters. That writing phase was excellent. He quips that now they weren't simply their babies; they had turned them into monsters, and they had to listen to them.