After a shadowy start, Asur starts to build, sucking you into a dark and dangerous world, ending each episode with a dramatic hook. The st...
After a shadowy start, Asur starts to build, sucking you into a dark and dangerous world, ending each episode with a dramatic hook. The story unfolds on two timelines. The web series opens 11 years ago, in Varanasi. A boy and his father are on a boat during an initiation ceremony, which ends in tragedy.
In present-day America, Nikhil (Barun Sobti) is teaching forensic science. His peaceful life with his wife and daughter is interrupted when he begins to receive coordinates for corpses from an unknown number in India. Intrigued and concerned, the forensics genius ditches his dead-end desk job and returns to India, joins the Central Bureau of Investigation and immerses himself in the case of a serial killer.
This eight-part drama on Voot Select, while high on atmospherics, succumbs to genre overload. Mythology, psychology, murder, mystery, karma, redemption, revenge, good and evil are all packed into creator Gaurav Shukla’s show.
A complex plot that explores the polarity of science against philosophy and logic versus belief both evolves and confuses. Nikhil’s connection to the killings and his fractious relationship with mentor Dhananjay (Arshad Warsi) are developed in each episode, but the script also often takes sweeping liberties. For instance, reliance on instinct over investigation,...
