– by Subhrakanti Dasgupta
Title: Asur
By: Voot Specials
Director: Oni Sen
Cast:
Arshad Warsi as Dhananjay Rajput
Barun Sobti as Nikhil Nair
Anupryia Goenka as Naina Nair
Ridhi Dogra as Nusrat Saeed
Sharib Hazmi as Lolark Dubey
Amey Wagh as Rasool Shaikh
Pawan Chopra as Shashank Awasthi
Vishesh Bansal as Shubh
Gaurav Aurora as Kesar Bharadwaj
Anvita Sudarshan as Raina Singh
Nishank Verma as Samarth Ahuja
Archak Chhabra as Aditya Jalan
Aditya Lal as Moksh
Deepak Qazir as Neelkanth Joshi
Bondip Sarma as Ankit Sharma
Jayant Raina as tatti Joshi
Sunayna Baile as Lolark’s Wife
Genre: Crime-Thriller and Mystery
Due to this pandemic when each of us seem stuck up in a hole, a bit of fresh air becomes a lavish. Sleep and smart phone became a valued partner of our daily slow paced life. But thriving on webseries is a new trend having marked hike this time leading to a host of such webseries coming up in multiple languages. As craze wrought up, the debate of Amazon Prime versus Netflix wrought up. But Amazon Prime as if gave a new heist in hindi crime thriller through Asur, the most downloaded show this lockdown. With a great story and heaving round the good old word of karma, Asur was a breakthrough. For me, an avid lover of crime thrillers, this one was a just gift to pass boredom.
It is directed by Oni Sen and set in current times and revolves around serial killings. Arshad Warsi styled as DJ, Dhananjay Rajput, made his web debut in this series.Set in the backdrop of the mystical city of Varanasi, Asur follows Nikhil Nair,on screen Barun Sobti, a forensic expert turned teacher, who returns to his roots at the Central Beareu Of Investigation, and along with his former mentor Dhananjay Rajpoot, finds himself caught in a cat-and-mouse game with a brutal serial killer. What follows is a blend of suspense, mythology and the murders of some people totally unrelated.
The story becomes criticial because its base is the religious fanaticism and hypocrisies in our society with a ting of our aincient views regarding karma and fate. Featuring great actors and a rich script, Asur also puts up our thinking regime as well as mystries regarding our thoughts and age old faiths. The series is well filed across several episodes with a balance between our known and unknown as well as our dark side. It shows that there is dark energy in synergy with the good and points out in current context how this dark energy or our character’s dual feel is getting awaken supresing the good in this modern era. It has deep underlying meaning with a blend of mystrey and crime to make it a must watch on Voot Specials this break.
Papyrus 