Veteran actor Asif Raza Mir’s popular British drama series Gangs of London is returning with its second season.
The BAFTA winning nine-part drama series was released in April 2020 and became the biggest UK original drama launch on Sky Original. Sky TV had announced in late 2020 that the show will be returning with a season 2 and the official teaser is out now.
The series is an adaptation of a video game released in 2006, with the same title. Gangs of London follows the stories and lives of rival gangs and other criminal organizations in London. It shows how the city of London fell apart by the power struggles between the international gangs that control it and the sudden ambiguous space that emerged when the head of London’s most powerful crime family was assassinated.
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Asif Raza Mir plays the character of Asif Afridi, an international drug lord from Pakistan, in the series. He is a selfish character who is known to unleash violent attacks on any gangs that cross him. He is also the father of a politician who is planning on running for the Mayor of London. The actor received rave reviews from international critics after the first season.
The crime-drama, produced by Sky Atlantic, broke viewing records. It had brought in 2.23 million viewers for its pilot episode alone. It was also the channel’s most binge-watched show of 2020.
A glimpse of Asif Raza Mir’s character seen in the teaser
The official description on the teaser trailer of Season 2 explains what to expect from the series. “One year after the death of Sean Wallace and the violent reckonings of series one, the map and soul of London has been redrawn. The surviving Wallaces are scattered, the Dumanis broken and estranged, and Elliot is now being forced to work for the investors.”
Asif’s son Ahad Raza Mir has also bagged a role in Netflix original series, Resident Evil.
Watch the teaser here:
