“The Indian film industry can do a lot of
things, but it's a proven fact that the horror genre is not a part of that.
Time and time again, most of the horror movies and shows to come out of
Bollywood end up being more funny than scary and it's kinda sad.”
Confession: I am the last person in the
world who can comment on this, but with all my heart I would like to be able to
say she’s off-target here. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen enough Indian films
within the horror genre to give an honest reply.
I am, however, delighted that Bhatia, among
many others, is excited about the upcoming launch of Betaal. She is
excited by the trailer for what she says looks like Betaal will be “a
zombie horror-thriller, “and we definitely have a dearth of that in India.”
If I’m excited it is that the narrative is
to be built around a battle between the Indian police in a small town and an
army of undead commanded by an Indian officer of the colonial British Army, Is
this going to be an Indian addition to the slew of “Nazi zombie” films that
dragged along on the coattails of Dead Snow? But in this version, it is the
revenant colonial servant who does battle with contemporary postcolonial
representatives of independent, democratic India?
Betaal is due for a May 24 (2020)
release on Netflix. The series will star Viineet Kumar, Aahana Kumra and
Suchitra Pillai in the lead, produced by world-famous actor Shah Rukh Khan in
cooperation with Blumhouse Films. The series was created, directed, and written
by Patrick Graham, the man behind the supernatural horror series Ghoul.
Online blogger/reviewer Hinakshi Bhatia, in a recent comment on the new Indian zombie horror television series Betaal, says:
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