It will always remain striking to me to see industrial films out of India deploying big-budget spectacle and visceral action sequences unbound by general principles of physics to sell such politically rich texts of communal uprising against economic and moral injustice. Asuran is a brutal, uncompromising vision of social imbalance that pulsates with polemical expressivity in the levels of destructiveness and pain it exhibits. Asuran delivers a straightforward critique of the social-political order - Legality is sculpted by the powerful, and the rules of the game are malleable to those with wealth, doing so through sweeping melodrama and stylish action that doesn't shy away from the barbarism of such violence. Asuran details the pervasive tentacles wealth has across all aspects of society, manifesting ubiquitous corruption, moral degradation, and inevitable violence. Structurally speaking, Asuran is interesting in that it has a flashback sequence that encompasses what feels about 40% of the film, which comes about halfway through. While this may sound strange. it works extremely well narratively and thematically, codifying the generational struggle passed down from father to son with the perpetual moral struggle that comes from within. Pacifistic approaches vs violent acts of rebellion - For Asuran, violence is inevitable when the other side views the lower economical classes as nothing more than an obstacle, violence is a necessity for survival
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