{"id":474472,"date":"2026-05-30T09:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/474472\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T09:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:09:10","slug":"deli-boys-star-poorna-jagannathan-breaks-down-season-2-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/474472\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Deli Boys’ Star Poorna Jagannathan Breaks Down Season 2 Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for \u201cDeli Boys<\/a>\u201d Season 2, which premiered May 28 on Hulu<\/a> with all six episodes.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDeli Boys\u201d Season 2 is all about Lucky in love. <\/p>\n

\n\tAt the start of the new season of the critically-acclaimed comedy, Lucky \u2014 played by the incredibly talented and impeccably dressed Poorna Jagannathan<\/a> \u2014 and her witless charges Mir (Asif Ali) and Raj (Saagar Shaikh) are successfully running the DarCo cocaine business. But with their success comes a common problem among drug lords: where to clean all their illicit cash. <\/p>\n

\n\tEnter Max Sugar (Fred Armisen), a prominent casino magnate and expert money launderer. Sugar is taken with Lucky from the start, but she does not immediately return his affections. Then, after Max helps out during an attempted robbery at the deli, Lucky agrees to go out with him.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLucky loves toxic, and she knows toxic when she sees toxic,\u201d Jagannathan said in an interview with Variety. \u201cShe\u2019s met her match in Max Sugar.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tAs the season progresses, Max helps out Lucky and the boys, though he encourages her to leave them behind and look after herself. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLucky is just used to always having to be in the trenches,\u201d Jagannathan said. \u201cSo she sees this man who is attracted to her, but also gives her protection and a level of power she aspires to.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tIt turns out, though, that Max is not Lucky\u2019s only love interest this season. Kumail Nanjiani guest stars as shady lawyer Danyal, who steps in to help get Raj out of prison after he is accused of blowing up Ahmad (Brian George). Danyal and Lucky were together prior to the events of the series, but his failures in handling Raj\u2019s case led Lucky to deliver a memorable line in Urdu that was actually written by Shaikh.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s, \u2018Shakal dekh ke chod diya, akal dekh ke chhod diya,\u2019 which is, \u2018I fucked you because of your looks, and I left you because of your brains,’\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

\n\tLater in the season, it\u2019s revealed that Max is prepared to sell out Lucky and the boys to Andrew Chadwater (Andrew Rannells), a district attorney who hates the Dars and is also running for mayor. When Lucky learns the truth, she wants to kill Max before the boys convince her of a different plan to take him down, take over the casino, and get Chadwater under their thumb.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe finally understands that these two boys are the closest things to family she\u2019ll ever have,\u201d Jagannathan said. \u201cThey depend on her, but she\u2019s beginning to depend on them as well, and they have really stepped up time and time again. They\u2019ve never betrayed her, and everyone else really has. She\u2019s settling into this three-unit a little more comfortably than she\u2019s ever been, because she was so close to giving it away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd while there is still plenty of violence this season, it is noticeably toned down compared to the bloody events of Season 1. Jagannathan said that was a conscious choice by the creative team.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think there was a bit of a behind-the-scenes conversation on that, on instead of showing the violence, how do you see the violence on our faces?\u201d she said. \u201cIt was a very, very interesting conversation on kind of the right tone, but I actually do think that it is visually less violent and it is emotionally more violent. I think the camera turned towards our expressions more than what was actually happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJagannathan also calls attention to a flashback scene at the top of Episode 5, which is notable as a mainstream depiction of Qawwali, a traditional form of Sufi Islamic singing. The scene features an appearance by superstar musician Ali Sethi, whom Jagannathan calls a \u201cvery old friend\u201d in addition to being \u201cone of South Asia\u2019s biggest artists.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tShe also cannot help but laugh at the memory of shooting the flashback, in which we see the Dar boys as young men.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat was the last day of shooting! They both shaved, and I don\u2019t know if you see it, but Asif has braces. I haven\u2019t seen them look worse in my entire life!\u201d she said. \u201cWe were all squealing from how awful they looked.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for \u201cDeli Boys\u201d Season 2, which premiered May 28 on Hulu with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[108731,93,3287,61,60,204682,282],"class_list":["post-474472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-deli-boys","tag-entertainment","tag-hulu","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-poorna-jagannathan","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}