Beyhadh 2
Beyhadh 2 is an Indian romantic drama thriller television series which premiered on 2 December 2019 on Sony Entertainment Television. It stars Jennifer Winget, Ashish Chaudhary and Shivin Narang.
The show was taken off the air abruptly due to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in India in March 2020. Later, it was announced that the show will not be brought back after the lockdown bringing the show to an abrupt ending.
Plot
Maya Jaisingh, an internationally best-selling author plans to destroy her biggest enemy Mrityunjay Roy to avenge the atrocities committed by him 10 years ago.Maya starts by saving Rishi from drowning who falls for her while she tricks Rudra to accept her offer to publish her latest book, Beyhadh. Elsewhere Maya manipulates Rishi to propose her. Rudra's business partner, Ananya loves him but he considers her only as a friend.
MJ's facade of a loving husband is exposed when he threatens and mistreats Antara. He invites Rudra's investor to his Masquerade party but Rajiv Chandra, Maya's accomplice introduces himself as the investor, saving Maya.
Elsewhere, Rudra falls for Maya after she helps him get his company's share from MJ. It is revealed that MJ had an affair with Rudra's girlfriend, thus he hates him.
Maya urges Rishi to ask MJ regarding their wedding but he refuses to listen. Maya takes the advantage of it and tricks Rishi into slitting his wrist to convince MJ for their wedding. Rishi does so and dies. MJ vows to kill Rishi's murderer but kills Myra who was Manas's girlfriend. Later, MJ asks Rudra and Ananya to marry. Elsewhere, Maya plans to kill him and tricks him to follow her to Rishikesh. Maya and Rudra realises their love for each-other and tie the wedding knot. The Roys were left shocked when he introduces Maya as his wife.
Later, Maya recalls her nasty past wherein Manvi Singh was betrayed by MJ, who had promised to marry her, but after learning she is pregnant, he tortured her with his partners that resulted in her miscarriage. Later, a stranger named Vikram Jaisingh saved her and renamed Maya Jaisingh. But after their marriage, Maya betrays him. Back in present, MJ gets an evidence confirming that Maya is Rishi's murderer. He gives the same to Rudra. Later, MJ and Maya shoot each other.
Three days later, we see that Maya is suffering from memory loss and Maya meets Vikram, who wants to get her back but she doesn't recognize. Elsewhere, Rudra vows to kill Maya and is constantly searching for her. Vikram kills Rajeev. Later, frustrated by Vikram, Nandini cuts her wrist and dies, helping Maya recover her past memories and she decides to use Vikram to defeat MJ.
List of characters
Main
- Maya Jaisingh plans to destroy his biggest enemy, MJ, who had betrayed Manvi Singh and killed her unborn child in past. Manvi was saved by Vikram Jaisingh who renames her Maya Jaisingh. But she deceives him after their wedding. Following her deadly plots, Maya kills Rishi and marries Rudra and renames herself Maya Rudra Roy and gradually takes revenge from everyone from the Roy Family.
- Mritunjay "MJ" Roy is a womanizing and selfish business tycoon. He had an affair with his son, Rudra's girlfriend and his wife Antara's friend Diya also. He had ruined the dreams of Manvi by deceiving her in the past and killing her unborn child which changed the innocence of Manvi Singh into the hatred of Maya Jaisingh and she returns to destroy him.
- Rudra Roy is an independent businessman who runs his own company, Ruan Publications. He hates his dad, MJ because he had an affair with his girlfriend but later starts respecting him. His business partner, Ananya loves him but he considers her only as a friend and marries Maya in Rishikesh shocking the Roys.
Recurring
- Vikram Jaisingh is Maya's stalker. In past he had saved Manvi, renamed her Maya Jaisingh, and proposed to her for marriage. However, she betrays him on the marriage date and because of that, he comes back to her life to get her back. He kills Rajeev and Nandini in the process. Later he supports Maya against MJ after she tricks him.
- Ananya Dutt is Rudra's business partner. She loves Rudra but he only considers her as a friend. But she stops loving and believing Rudra after he betrays her by marrying Maya.
- Rishi "Rish" Roy is Antara and MJ's younger son who fell in love with Maya after she saved him from drowning unaware of her agenda. She kills him and avenges the death of her innocent unborn child.
- Nandini Singh was Manvi/Maya and Manas's mother. After MJ betrayed Manvi and killed Manas, she suffered from amnesia for seven years. Maya helped her recover and lies that her husband and Manas abandoned them and lives in the United States. Later, she cuts her wrist and dies because of Vikram.
- Antara Mritunjay Roy loves the name and fame of her husband Mritunjay. She is addicted to drugs through which MJ keeps threatening her. She helped MJ ruin Manvi's life and thus faces Maya's wrath.
- Dr. Diya Mehta was MJ's secret girlfriend. She tried to help MJ abort Manvi's unborn child, thus Maya sends her to a mental hospital for the entire life.
- Rajeev Chandra was Maya's close friend and computer expert. He also serves as Maya's accomplice and partner-in-crime. MJ had destroyed Rajeev's company. So, he supports Maya against MJ but died in the process
- Aamir Abdullah is MJ's business partner and family friend. He often lives in Roy Mansion and helps MJ in his personal-cum-professional life. He helped MJ ruin Manvi's life. So, he is on Maya's hitlist.
- Nilanjana Roy is MJ's mother. She hates him for his selfish and womanizing personality She is addicted to alcohol. After Rishi's demise she leaves Roy Mansion blaming MJ for his death and goes to London.
- Ankit was Rishi's friend and MJ's accomplice. MJ asked him to kidnap Rishi's girlfriend and he kidnaps Maya but dies in the process.
- Nargis Abdullah is Aamir's wife, who is MJ's accomplice.
- Jogi is MJ's personal driver. He helped in destroying Manvi's life and thus is on Maya's hitlist.
- Sudhir Dutt is MJ's business partner and Ananya's father. He helped in killing Manvi's unborn child and thus is on Maya's hitlist.
- Myra Mehra was Manas's girlfriend and Maya's accomplice. After Manas was killed by MJ, she started hating him. So, after Rishi's death, she gives her sacrifice by claiming herself to be his girlfriend to save Maya from MJ.
- Aditya Roy is Rudra and Rishi's cousin, and an investigative journalist.
- Manas Singh was Manvi's brother and Myra's boyfriend who was killed by MJ.
Production
Talking about the show, Jennifer Winget said, "In Beyhadh, Maya was looking for love and was hungry for Arjun's attention. But in Beyhadh 2, Maya is back with an agenda and she has hatred in her mind. Everyone wanted to know, who Maya is in the first season but now everyone is aware of the lengths Maya can go to get her things done."
Due to the coronavirus lockdown, on 20 April 2020, the show was cancelled by the channel along with two other shows, Patiala Babes and Ishaaron Ishaaron Mein. A producer, Prateek Sharma, conceded to the network's actions, describing them as being "in the best interest of all the concerned parties, including producer, actors, writers and the rest of the crew." In a statement to Times of India, the channel stated that production on the shows stopped in March, due to the Covid-19 spread. They noted that the Beyadh 2 narrative was "time-bound", and the Covid delay made it difficult for the network to finish telling the series' story to the end.