Asur 2 actor Arshad Warsi: ‘OTT is giving work to a lot of good actors’

Still fondly referred to as ‘Circuit’ - his role as Munna’s sidekick in the Sanjay Dutt-starrer 2003 comedy drama Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. - Arshad Warsi recently made his OTT debut with Gaurav Shukla and Vibhav Shikdar’s psychological thriller web series, Asur 2, streaming on JioCinema. Sharing his thoughts about the emergence of the digital space, the Golmaal actor recently said as long as the actor is getting good work, one should not be worried about the platform on which the film or series is releasing.

With Barun Sobti, Anupriya Goenka, Ridhi Dogra and Amey Wagh playing the key roles, Asur 2 follows a team of forensic experts tasked to help catch a serial killer, who considers himself a reincarnation of the asura Kali. Arshad’s character (Dhananjay Rajpoot) has garnered a lot of attention in the latest season of the series. The first season saw Sharib Hashmi essaying a pivotal character, alongside Meiyang Chang and Abhishek Chauhan.

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Commenting on the growing popularity of the OTT space, Arshad told IANS, “OTT is a great thing that has happened. It is giving work to a lot of good actors, and the audience is getting to see the acting of some very good actors. See, films [theatres] and OTT are two different things altogether and they will always be different. I enjoy cinema and I enjoy OTT as well. If you enjoy your work and you are getting good work to do, I think one should not worry about where the work is getting released.”

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So, what made him say yes to the eight-episode web series, “I loved the story. Actually, I loved many things about it. When I heard the idea of the show, I enjoyed it so much because I knew this will surely work with the Indian Audience. I found it interesting and that made me say yes to it.”