Telugu-Tamil bilingual entertainer Asvins is generating interest among movie lovers with an interesting teaser and trailer. The film is directed by Tarun Teja and stars Vasanth Ravi, and Vimala Raman in the lead roles. The film's OTT rights have been bagged by Netflix and streaming will be after the completion of its theatrical run. Let us see whether Asvins thrilled movie lovers or not.
Asvins' story is all about the experiences of young YouTubers who are on a Black Tourism project. Youtubers Arjun (Vasanth Ravi), Rithu aka Rithvika (Saras Menon), Varun (Muralidaran Subramanian), Rahul (Udhaya Deep) and Grace (Malina Atul) are popular for their spooky videos and as their popularity grows, they get an opportunity from UK for a Black Tourism project. They go to a lonely mansion to get going with their project. Where this leads to and who is Arthi Rajagopal (Vimala Raman) and what experiences they encounter form the crux of Asvins.
Vasanth Ravi who played the lead role came up with good expressions and emotions at crucial moments. Vimala Raman played an important role and she did justice to her character. Others like Saras Menon,Muralidaran Subramanian, Udhaya Deep and Melina Atul got equal screen presence and they are ok with their performances.
Asvins story penned by Tarun Teja is based on the most popular and trending topic of black tourism across the world. He correlated it with the Hindu scriptures and wove a story connecting to Gods Asvini Twins. He stuck to the point right from the start in his narration and generated interest from the beginning. He created curiosity and increased it with dialogues that are impactful.
He narrated the first half in three Chapters, Two Deaths, Two Voices, and Two Souls. The interval twist ends the first half perfectly setting the tone for the second half. However, the second half which comprised of two chapters Mind of Two Worlds and World of Two Minds turned out to be routine. Though the story is predictable and routine after a point of time and interest levels dip with repetitive scenes, he maintained the curiosity intact with dialogues on two sacred idols, missing bodies, visiting of deaths and tragedies, two minds, two heads, seeing light in the darkness, intermediate stage after death from where persons try to communicate. All these dialogues are thought-provoking and give a unique feel.
Tarun Teja on debut emerged successful with his good screenplay and direction. Except for a few scenes and instances, he did a good job. However, he should have concentrated more on creating more spooky and fearful scenes rather than repeating the same spooky scenes most of the time.
AM Edvin Saakey used the camera angles to perfection. He used his skills to create the fear factor in the dark angles. The lighting effect is minimum and the dark shades are shown quite well in the film to create a maximum impact. Vijay Siddhath's background music turned out to be top-class. He elevated the scenes with his background score. The sound mixing and recording created a maximum impact. Dialogues are ok and production values are good.
Altogether Asvins is an average thriller. Tarun Teja tried his best to take viewers on a horror and scary ride on Black Tourism. However, more than the story, screenplay, and direction, he depended on creating fear with few spooky elements and repeating the same scary scenes. Had Tarun Teja turned out to be more creative and come up with a strong story, he could have made a stunning impact. Considering all these elements Cinejosh goes with a 2 Rating for Asvins.