Jun 10, 2023 12:21 AM
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I must say that the film making in India is getting really polarised, on one side there are useless ones which are as cliché as it could be and on the other side you have good ones which are engaging and entertaining to watch. The emergence of OTT has given amazing landscape to those filmmakers who have capabilities but were not getting chance to showcase it due to rule of few Khans, Kapoors and Chopras etc on big screens.
Asur is one of those which will keep troubling you whether you are going to be right or wrong in your guess every time. The story tells itself neatly. Though if you have Seen Money Heist, Die Hard 4.0 and The Dark Knight rises you will be able to connect it all the time. Money Heist will connect you to the tactics which Shubh Uses, Dark Knight Rises will give you the concept of New World Order and finally Die Hard 4.0 will let you understand what “Fire Sale” is where Shubh tries to create a din in the tech system. Even after all those inspirations, One of the good parts with the movie is that is used the Indian scriptures without demeaning those, it is very easy to be observed in most of the movies now days which defies the Indian scriptures and try to slate their own version of everything. Asur connects beautifully with the books and explains it with logics.
Vishesh Bansal as young Shubh was awesome, and Varun Sobti was too engrossed in the character. Arashad Warsi is a good actor, and he did justice with his performance. Ridhi Dogra and Gaurav Arora were also good, but there could be a better choice in place of Anupriyua Goenka. Elder Shubh Joshi played by Abhishek Chauhan was less intimidating than the younger one. Vishesh Bansal’s expressions were befitting to the role. Background score was so suitable to the theme and was moderately dark. Abusive were used with limits so you can watch it with family.
The series tells us about sad reality of technology which is for sure going to overpower us but right now we do not know in what shape it will create The Big Trouble. The debate should end with a logic that technology used by bad people is going to create bad to society and not technology in general. simply like the debate of offline vs online classes in school. You can’t go 100% online and technology will only play a supporting role. The overall theme again reminded me of a novel “Origin” written by Dan Brown which explains that how by the time technology will rule the system in coming times. Asur justifies that but with certain validations. The claimax was quite predictable and could be more intense.
I would not like to spoil the joy of you watching it through the weekend so I will rest my pen here. Just remember to watch both parts in one go.
