Shark Tank Season 2 Review

There are critical entrepreneurs with some revolutionary concepts, just like the younger girls from Bangalore who run a enterprise promoting packaged flowers for poojas, or the enthusiastic duo who need to popularise Darjeeling tea, the couple who hope to revive conventional sari weaves, or the earnest younger man who has created a sensible watch for youngsters that permits dad and mom to trace their children and talk with them, observes Deepa Gahlot.

The Shark Tank franchise has been profitable in about 27 international locations, however when it arrived in India, the timing was excellent.

The COVID pandemic had turned so many lives the other way up — folks misplaced jobs however on the similar time, there was an increase in start-ups that aimed on the stay-at-home phase (meals supply topping the listing), in addition to a progress within the gig economic system.

If OTT audiences have been hooked to leisure actuality reveals, they’re additionally beginning to get sensible about cash.

The idea of Shark Tank is seemingly easy — small entrepreneurs needing funding to scale up their companies, pitch their concepts to a panel of buyers or ‘sharks’, who then consider their proposal and determine in the event that they need to put in cash, and purchase fairness within the enterprise in return.

There are, after all, many extra authorized and monetary processes, that are left off display screen, and solely the simplified and entertaining a part of the pitching is seen — the concept, the questions and solutions, the hope within the eyes of the pitchers and the enjoyment or disappointment after their proposal is accepted or rejected.

This Dragon’s Den format for the enterprise actuality present originated in Japan in 2001, the place Cash Tigers proved to be successful.

Its American model, Shark Tank, created by Mark Burnett, began in 2009, and ran for 14 seasons, profitable just a few Emmys on the way in which.

Shark Tank India Season 1, with seven buyers evaluating proposals over 34 episodes, turned out to be a shock success, and the sharks — Ashneer Grover, specifically — turned stars in their very own proper.

He doesn’t seem in Season 2, the place within the first two episodes, there are simply 5 sharks, repeated from the primary season (Vineeta Singh, Namrata Thapar, Anupam Mittal, Peyush Bansal and Aman Gupta, all rich entrepreneurs themselves, although not precisely on the high of the heap).

Season 2, might have, maybe, had a special set of sharks, or a minimum of a mix-and-match, however perhaps the producers needed to utilise the recognition of the Season 1 buyers.

Shark Tank India, fortunately, does away with the studio viewers, however the set is garish, extra fitted to a music or dance actuality present than a enterprise programme.

Hosted this time by Rahul Dua (who has little or no to do), the present, with Payel Seth as artistic director, really attracts viewers with its emotional quotient.

For example, shock and tears when a participant mentions lack of household in a hearth although sufficient enterprise jargon is thrown round to have interaction the viewers, who’re looking ahead to that objective.

The sharks not often naked their tooth (their ‘overacting’ reactions typically appear to be they have been shot individually and clumsily inserted when required), and are principally encouraging and sympathetic, regardless that the pitchers are made to face in entrance of them, like naughty college students within the principal’s workplace.

In Season 2, they’re unreasonably nasty to a duo pitching their home-grown make-up model as a result of they don’t look refined (class bias on show), after which reject their proposal as a result of they might be rivals of Vineeta Singh, who runs a cosmetics empire.

What’s pleasantly shocking is that over 35 episodes of Season 1 and 50 of Season 2, there are critical entrepreneurs with some revolutionary concepts, just like the younger girls from Bangalore who run a enterprise promoting packaged flowers for poojas, or the enthusiastic duo who need to popularise Darjeeling tea, the couple who hope to revive conventional sari weaves, or the earnest younger man who has created a sensible watch for youngsters that permits dad and mom to trace their children and talk with them.

They’re only a fraction of the 1000’s who apply to take part within the present.

There may be, after all, as a lot danger of an thought being stolen, as of a promising enterprise failing.

The present is simply too new to really observe the progress or failure of the pitchers, who stroll away with cheques.

Season 2 begins with Vineeta and Namrata monitoring two pickle-making feminine entrepreneurs in Darbhanga, Bihar, with presents of funding, once they had rejected their pitch within the earlier season.

So regardless of its vicious title, what Shark Tank India presents viewers is hope. If these odd, hard-working and optimistic folks could make it this far, so can anyone with a workable marketing strategy and the smarts to see it by.

Shark Tank 2 streams on SonyLIV.

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