‘Betaal’ set to bring realism into horror genre

As far as the horror genre goes, people have surely come a long way from the tacky Ramsay movies and ‘Vikram Aur Betal’ television series. But now it is time to go further.

Come May 24 and we will have ‘Netflix’s latest web series ‘Betaal’. The story is unique and revolves around a group of army officials who find themselves fighting a huge battalion of centuries-old British soldiers-turned-zombies.

While on a mission to displace the natives of Campa forest in order to build a highway, an army squad unwittingly unleashes the curse of Betaal mountain that wreaks havoc on the people and threatens to end civilisation as people know it.

“The trailer of ‘Betaal’ establishes one simple fact that the horror genre in India won’t be too flimsy and frivolous now,” analyses Bollywood PR guru Dale Bhagwagar. He adds, “Just like we have seen with Hollywood films such as ‘The Mummy’ and the South Korean stunner ‘Train to Busan’,

Indian horror stories too, may be woven around more realistic and believable instances in the future. ‘Tumbbad’ started the process a year ago, and now ‘Betaal’ seems to be consolidating that view.”

Starring Viineet Kumar Singh (of ‘Mukkabaaz’ and ‘Bard of Blood’ fame), Jitendra

Joshi (‘Sacred Games’), Aahana Kumra (‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’) and Suchitra Pillai (‘Dil Chahta Hai’), ‘Betaal’ is written and directed by Patrick Graham (of ‘Ghoul’ fame) along with Nikhil Mahajan. ‘Evil is eternal’ adds its ‘YouTube’ description, and people are excited to see more.