Bollywood director-producer Vikram Bhatt, who is ready with his next spook flick `Shaapit` says his fascination for horror films will always continue as he likes to scare audience.
|Last Updated: Mar 12, 2010, 02:14 PM IST|Source: Bureau
Mumbai: Bollywood director-producer Vikram Bhatt, who is ready with his next spook flick `Shaapit` says his fascination for horror films will always continue as he likes to scare audience."I love horror films...I enjoy making them. Directors like David Dhawan, Karan Johar and Madhur Bhandarkar weave laughter, love and social issues into their stories. Similarly, I love to scare people," Vikram told reporters here.
"I like to sell fear. It may be horror or something else..but my shop will always sell fear," Vikram who has earlier directed spook fests like `Raaz` and `1920`, said.
`Shaapit` is a romantic-horror story starring noted playback singer Udit Narayan`s son Aditya Narayan and newcomer Shewta Agarwal will release next week under the banner of ASA Productions and Enterprises.
The director is working on one more horror film with Aditya Narayan, "but we are still working on the script and rest of the starcast for the film," he said.
On casting newcomers in his movie, the 43-year-old director said, "Horror is one genre that does not require a big names because the `fear factor` in the film itself is the big star. So one can experiment horror films with anyone,"
Shaapit`s story revolves around a young girl Kaaya (Shweta Agarwal) who is trapped in a generational curse making her love life distressful with her fiancee Aman (Aditya Narayan) who vows to conquer this curse.
"The film is based on a curse that has haunted a royal family for 300 years where girls from the family die if they get married. The curse shifts to Kaaya and it is then Aman, the love interest, who fights the evil spirits," Vikram said.
Also, the movie is not adapted from any novel or Hollywood film. Everything that you see in the film is totally new, he clarified adding it required an intense research of
about two years to make the movie.
On whether he is jittery about the movie hitting the screens during IPL matches, the director said, "everytime we have something or the other round the corner be it IPL, Common wealth Games or festivals. But with all this, a director can`t stop his releasing or postpone his film."
PTI
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