Zoya Akhtar explains the four-year gap between the two seasons of Made in Heaven, says they were ‘worried’ about audience coming back for it

Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti’s Made in Heaven was one of the biggest OTT hits of 2019 and made stars out of Sobhita Dhulipala and Arjun Mathur, yet, it took the makers four years to come out with the next season of the show. In a recent interview, Zoya was asked about the four-year gap and if she was worried about sustaining audience’s interest after this long gap.

Zoya told Film Companion that the show’s production was first hit due to the pandemic as the “whole world lost the momentum”. She said that the team was “concerned” about sustaining audience’s interest and shared, “We were very worried about audience’s interest and will it sustain? But we wanted to put our best foot out there if we were doing it and hopefully, they will be back.”

Speaking about the love that the first season received, Zoya said, “2019, it dropped and we got a lot of love for it, in India and internationally. (In the second season) The writing needed to be much deeper, more layered. The show needed to scale up in an organic way so we did spend a lot of time on the writing.”

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Zoya Akhtar said that just as they were about to start shooting, they had to stop because of the pandemic. “We shut down three times because even though you were allowed to get back to work, you couldn’t have more than 50 people on set which didn’t really work out for Made in Heaven,” she said and added, “We have a big cast and a lot of productions were shut down simultaneously. So our actors had to finish other work so it was very tough to get the circus back.”

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The second season of Made in Heaven starts streaming on Amazon Prime Video from August 10.