Asur 2 Review: ‘Asur’ changes tone due to change of writers, Brun Sobati again heavy on Arshad Warsi

The web series ‘Asoor 2′ is a story based series that forms the basis of the war between Kali and Kalki. The secret of cutting off the finger after the murder is lost in the exchange of writers. The boy who killed his father has become a teenager. He is spreading his narcissism on everyone from common people to great scientists. He manages to become an assistant to a professor of AI. And, by hacking the servers of the world’s largest social media company, it steals a lot of its users’ data. Now whatever mobile or laptop is around. He has access to all. By linking the story of this demon of social media with the Puranas, the author of the web series ‘Asoor 2’ raises national problems again and again and then when the real problem comes, it does not reach the audience like the story of ‘Bherya Aya’. Still thrilled after trying.

Apart from Gaurav Shukla, this time Abhijeet and Sooraj have shown their skills in writing the web series ‘Asoor 2’. The dialogues of the screenplay are so long and that too to carry the story forward. All these together don’t show the story happening but try to move forward through the dialogues of the characters and the series fails miserably here. Due to this, the series which picked up pace from the third episode dies in the sixth episode itself. These middle three episodes are the best episodes of the series. Meanwhile, Adit KS’s character Ishani Chaudhary is also interested in the story but as soon as he leaves, the story turns into a simple crime story again. The confluence of legends and modernity, which was attractive in the first season of the series, is not attractive this time.

In terms of the cast, Brun Sobati once again became the reason to watch the series till the end. A forensic expert CBI officer, who has lost his daughter, has to repeatedly seek the help of the same wife, from whom he is on the verge of divorce, in this story. He will have to work again with his senior whom he idolized and whom he arrested last season. He has affection for a fellow female officer. Despite having so many shades of the same character, the web series ‘Asoor 2’ lacks the juice of all these interwoven stories. In the beginning, the authors of the story are interested in the personal lives of the characters, but then everyone wanders into the stock market that can be controlled by social media and bots that all these conspiracy theories leave on the margins.

Among the rest of the cast, special Bansal and Atharva Vishwakarma’s work is excellent. Harshu from ‘Yeh Meri Family’ shows immense potential to be a great actor. Special dialogues in the character of Shubh when he speaks with a pause on his face, the audience is also attracted to him. And, something similar happens in Atharva Vishwakarma’s acting. In his journey from Leh to Delhi, Atharva, who became Anant, has done a very impressive job. Sharib Hashmi’s character has already died in the first season, so this time the responsibility of pushing the series back has fallen on Amy Wagh. Amey has also put her soul into this character which changes colors every moment, especially her scenes after ‘Apna Raj Khul Jaan’ are worth watching. Ridhi Dogra, Anupriya Goenka have maintained the same look in all the eight episodes except for one or two places. Pawan Chopra, who became the CBI chief, has done a better job than him. Meiyang Chang’s casting is wrong and Abhishek Chauhan is ineffective as Badi Shubh.