India’s Arshad Warsi Basks in ‘Asur’ Success, Teases Next ‘Munna Bhai’ Film: Script Is ‘Almost Ready’
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Indian actor Arshad Warsi stars in JioCinema series “Asur,” the second season of which is one of the most-watched Indian shows of the year.
Set in the holy northern Indian city of Varanasi, the psychological thriller series with mythological elements stars Warsi and Barun Sobti as forensic expert investigators engaged in a cat-and-mouse-game with a serial killer. “Asur: Welcome to Your Dark Side” streamed on Voot in 2020. “Asur 2: The Rise of the Dark Side” moved over to sister streamer JioCinema and began streaming in June.
Within three weeks of release, Season 2 amassed 30 million viewers and 3 billion minutes of watch time, per JioCinema data. The series also made it to IMDb’s top 50 shows worldwide. “India is full of mythology and spirituality and we are pretty big with that.
And we are pretty smart people around the world, where science and any kind of technology goes. So these two things, getting it together was a good idea,” Warsi tells Variety.
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