When the work is perilous but the sex is stupendous, what would you choose? Confused is the night for Bhumika, the pleasure-seeking heroine of the Netflix series She.
Created and written by Imtiaz Ali, She draws a tricky equivalence between Bhumika’s sexual reawakening and her reclaiming of her self-esteem. She follows police constable Bhumika (Aaditi Pohankar), who goes undercover as a sex worker to ensnare the elusive druglord Nayak (Kishore Kumar G). The show proposes that Bhumika uses her body to gain the power that has been denied to her by her abusive husband and her patronising bosses.
In the first season from 2020, Bhumika is catalysed by a close encounter with Nayak’s flirty employee Sasya (Vijay Verma). The death of Sasya at the end of season one leaves Bhumika at Nayak’s mercy, but she’s hardly complaining. We last see her straddling Nayak (Kishore Kumar G) with undisguised triumph.
In season two, Bhumika remains at the top but also goes sideways in her struggle to balance desire and duty. If Bhumika has to let her police bosses down in exchange for a satisfying roll in the hay, so be it.
The second season, directed by Arif Ali, heavily tops up the show’s soft-core premise. It’s more explicit than before, with…
