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

The musician mixed beats with dialogues from a WhatsApp video by KP Naisal

Ashwin Bhaskar started his YouTube channel in 2012. It was just another channel with original songs, covers and mash-ups until two weeks ago. But, now, Ashwin, an audio engineer, composer, singer, songwriter and music producer, is in the news because of ‘Perfect OK’, “a dialogue with beat” video. The video has cross 4.7 million views so far. He has mixed beats with the dialogues from a video by KP Naisal, an autorickshaw driver in Kozhikode. In October 2020, when Naisal’s friend was down with COVID-19, Naisal had sent him a video via WhatsApp to cheer him up. Naisal tells him about the facilities, especially the food, provided for COVID-19 patients at quarantine centre. The hilarious clip went viral after Naisal inadvertently forwarded it to a WhatsApp group. The highlight of the video were some English words he used to pep up his conversation —‘Perfect ok...and it is… two and the tan and the con and the back….’ Ashwin mixed beats with this part of the video.