Asur 2 The Rise Of The Dark Side #PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #IndianOTTSeriesReview

#PicksAndPiques #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #IndianOTTSeriesReview Title: #Asur2TheRiseOfTheDarkSide Cast: #ArshadWarsi #AnupriyaGoenka #BarunSobti #VisheshBansal #RiddhiDogra #MeiyangChang #BarkhaBisht #AmeyWagh #GauravArora #AbhishekChauhan #PawanChopra #AdithiKalkunte #AtharvaVishwakarma #KulpreetYadav Director: #OniSen Rating: * * 1/2 Runtime: 8 eps/48- 60 mins each Writers: #AbhishekGarg #AbhijeetKhuman #GauravShukla #PranayPatwardhan #NirenBhatt Producers: #BhaveshMandalia #SejalShah #GauravShukla Editor: #CharuTakkar #ShadabKhan DoP: #SayakBhattacharya #BombayFablesMotionPictures #RelianceEntertainment #PRPundit #JioCinema #JioStudios #everyone @everyone

This second season of the truly creative indigenous thriller merging Indian mysticism with High-tech criminality has a strong enough lure for an audience already heady with the sinister twists, turns, brutality, and violence of the well-loved first season. This season tries to up the ante a bit with varied layers and tech spiffs - but random use of terms like artificial intelligence, software, and hacking without showcasing detail, sounds frivolous and unsubstantiated. The storytelling is also fractious, flitting from one point to another without any detailing or development. The characters are rigid within their previous bounds. There’s not much development there either. The myth-making is also pretty much dubious. Expecting our fallen heroes Dhananjay Rajpoot and Nikhil Nair to use forensic science to flush out the returning, formidable and weaponised Shubh is a challenge that seems rather defeatist!