''Asvins'' is a 2023 Indian Tamil-language

psychological horror Psychological horror is a genre, subgenre of horror fiction, horror and psychological fiction with a particular focus on mental, emotional, and Mental state, psychological states to frighten, disturb, or unsettle its audience. The subgenre freque ...

film written and directed by Tarun Teja in his directorial debut. The film stars Vasanth Ravi and

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with Muralidaran, Saraswathi Menon, Udhaya Deep and Simran Pareek in supporting roles. It is an adaptation of Tarun Teja's own short film of the same name. The film was released theatrically on 23 June 2023.

Plot

The movie begins with a flashback depicting a folk tale about a boy being saved by Ashwini Kumars and being given a boon that other than natural causes, he shall not die in any way. The story then follows a group of people investigating paranormal activity in a mansion in Kent, which formerly belonged to an archaeologist named Aarthi Rajagopalan (

). The group faces an unknown entity in the mansion and hear voices in their heads. Arjun ( Vasanth Ravi) must reunite the two idols of Ashwini Kumars to save the rest of his team.

Cast

* Vasanth Ravi as Arjun, Ritu's husband *

as Aarthi Rajagopalan * Saraswathi Menon as Rithvika "Ritu" Arjun, Arjun's wife * Muralidaran as Varun, Rahul's elder brother * Udhaya Deep as Rahul, Varun's younger brother * Malina as Grace

Production

The film was produced by

B. V. S. N. Prasad Bhogavalli Venkata Sathyanarayana Prasad, commonly known as B. V. S. N. Prasad, is an Indian film producer and distributor, primarily known for his work in Telugu cinema. He is the owner of the production companies Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra ...

under

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, while it was co-produced by Praveen Daniel. The cinematography was done by A. M. Edwin Sakay, while editing was handled by Venkat Raajen. The daughter of

Rajiv Menon Rajiv Menon (born 20 April 1963) is an Indian filmmaker who has worked as a director and cinematographer in several Indian regional film industries. After making his breakthrough as a film cinematographer with Mani Ratnam's Tamil drama ''Bombay' ...

, Saraswathi Menon, made her acting debut in this film.

Music

The music of the film was composed by Vijay Siddharth.

Release

The film was initially scheduled to release in theatres on 9 June 2023, but was postponed to 23 June 2023.

Reception

Gopinath Rajendran of ''

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'' wrote, "Despite the shallow story with tried-and-tested tropes, ''Asvins'' impresses with its technical aspects and as a scary movie that does justice to its genre." Logesh Balachandran of ''

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'' gave the film 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote, "''Asvins'' is quite interesting in terms of ideas, but the main issue is that they don't come together as a whole." Manigandan K. R. of ''The South First'' gave the film 3 out of 5 stars and wrote, "''Asvins'' is a reasonably well-made engaging horror thriller that works, if you have the patience to sit through right till the end." A critic from '' Sakshi'' gave the film a rating of 2.5 stars out of 5 and gave a mixed review. Kiran Kumar Thanjavur of ''

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'' gave it 2.75 out of 5 stars and called it as "an engaging psychological thriller."

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, tt27080643 2020s Tamil-language films 2020s Indian films 2023 films 2023 horror films Films set in country houses Indian psychological horror films