Meet Ashwin Bhaskar, the musician behind ‘Perfect OK’, the ‘dialogue-with-beat’ video

Videos of musician Mayur Jumani had inspired him to do the ‘dialogue-with-beat’ series of videos. The first video he did has a scene from Chronic Bachelor with Innocent and Harisree Ashokan. Other videos have Innocent’s dialogues from Vietnam Colony, Kilukkam and Kalyanaraman. “It was not a conscious decision. I make a beat and look for dialogues that would fit into it. It was a coincidence that his dialogues turned out to be perfect for this particular one. I have a lot of fun doing these videos,” says Ashwin.

Among other similar videos are those with dialogues by Tik-Tok/YouTube stars such as Pala Saji and Dasettan Kozhikode. “People who follow my videos come up with suggestions. Otherwise I wouldn’t have known about them,” he says. Ashwin uses Logic Pro software to make these videos.

Ashwin met Naisal in person for a channel’s interview after the video went viral. “He is full of life and is positive. Our lives have changed after the video was uploaded. People are checking out my previous works and that is encouraging,” he adds.

Ashwin stresses that dialogue videos are something he does “to entertain people” and his aim is to create original songs. He has already composed three songs —‘Story of my life’, ‘Reality’, and ‘Let me be alone’ and has also collaborated with a couple of indie musicians from outside Kerala whom he had met on YouTube.

A fan of Ed Sheeran, Myles Kennedy, Lauv and Post Malone, Ashwin aims at becoming an independent artist of international repute some day. A self-taught musician with no background in music, Ashwin says that he started taking music seriously when he was in school. “A friend introduced me to audio engineering. I began listening to English songs, started making beats, launched my channel and even composed a song.”

After finishing his Engineering, he did a diploma in Audio Engineering from AR Rahman’s KM Music Conservatory in Chennai. “Subsequently, I decided to dedicate more time to my YouTube channel (Ashwin Bhaskar) expecting I can build a huge subscriber base in a few months. But that didn’t happen. I had almost decided to give it up. That’s when I posted a cover of American pop rock band Maroon 5’s song, ‘Memories’ on my channel. They noticed my version and uploaded a portion of it on their official channel. That was a huge boost for me and I decided to keep going. Now ‘Perfect OK’ has given my career a new lease of life,” says Ashwin.

At the moment, life seems to be perfect ok for Ashwin!