The story starts with a boy(Shuv Joshi), son of a pundit living in Varanasi who kills his father, who treated him like an Asur regarding his mother's death and 'wrong' time of birth. On the other hand a guy(Nikhil Nayar played by Barun sobti) teaching Forensics in USA dwelling between his family and passion, who constantly starts to recive different GPS locations of different Indian states where dead bodies are found. He had no choice but to join CBI under the same guy(Dhananjay Rajput played by Arshad warsi) for whom he left 10 years back. A Very well crafted story to this point.
From the early 2000s, basically after "True detective" mixing murder with Mythology has become a trend. This show also tried to do that in its own authentic way. Which was genuinely beautiful. Other scenes or plots like, showing chemical reactions that happens during murders, foreshadowing using dialogues, showing the mythological aspects of Asur, playing with moral right and wrong all of these were very well constructed and written.
All of these derails from its majestic journey and crumbles down in the last two episodes where Dhananjay's "Instinct" comes into play. In this sort of shows logic maybe overshadowed by mythology which is Okay but Instinct playing a great role in a crime thriller just reflects the negligence in writing.
A whole lot of things should have been elaborated/explained in this show. Like the mythological connection of the mask, mixing of Shuv with "Aghori", growing of the "Asur" cult and specially the hunt of devil. A rush to finish the show after 5 episodes was very prominent.
Inspite of the well-done cinematography, nicely crafted dark tone in editing and of course brilliant acting by Arsad and Barun like many other shows the ending was horrific.
Overall, Asur started with a Bang but ended sadly.
From the early 2000s, basically after "True detective" mixing murder with Mythology has become a trend. This show also tried to do that in its own authentic way. Which was genuinely beautiful. Other scenes or plots like, showing chemical reactions that happens during murders, foreshadowing using dialogues, showing the mythological aspects of Asur, playing with moral right and wrong all of these were very well constructed and written.
All of these derails from its majestic journey and crumbles down in the last two episodes where Dhananjay's "Instinct" comes into play. In this sort of shows logic maybe overshadowed by mythology which is Okay but Instinct playing a great role in a crime thriller just reflects the negligence in writing.
A whole lot of things should have been elaborated/explained in this show. Like the mythological connection of the mask, mixing of Shuv with "Aghori", growing of the "Asur" cult and specially the hunt of devil. A rush to finish the show after 5 episodes was very prominent.
Inspite of the well-done cinematography, nicely crafted dark tone in editing and of course brilliant acting by Arsad and Barun like many other shows the ending was horrific.
Overall, Asur started with a Bang but ended sadly.