Fatal Attractions

“The whole concept of having a film wherein the main antagonist goes about slashing characters with a machete is something that audience here cannot relate to. They need the love story element,the revenge element or something of that sort to keep them glued to the screen for two hours. It is a reason why horror films in India are made with twists and subplots attached to them and that is where my films come in,” says Bhatt about his tryst with making horror films.

Bhatt,who,along with actors Aditya Narayan and Shweta Agarwal,was in the city on Sunday to promote the film,says that the film is based on a curse that has haunted a royal family for 300 years wherein the girls from the family die if they get married. The curse,which shifts to the modern day,has Aditya playing the role of the protagonist Aman,and Shweta playing Kaya his love interest who is doomed by the curse haunting her and her family.

On choosing an unconventional role for his debut movie Narayan,who has also sung a couple of tracks in the film,says,“Well if I had been doing a love story then the first question would be Ok so you too are doing a love story? All that apart I felt that the storyline of the movie was crisp and taut and gave me a better chance to portray myself as an actor,while retaining the traditional elements of the song and dance routines. Probably the best part of this film is the fact that it is a horror/love story,which is a refreshing breakaway from the stereotypes that most movies are.”

Bhatt also feels that one can change the genre of a film by just substituting the villains in the film. “Take warring sets of families as the antagonists and you have Qayamat se Qayamat tak (QSQT),or else get a villain like The Joker in the Dark Knight and you have as superhero comic book film,similarly get a supernatural spirit in the film and you have a horror film,” he says.

Without giving away explicit details of the plot Bhatt says that the film has been well researched for and the language used in the incantations and chants in the film is actually an ancient language used to practice witchcraft. “The whole idea of the film is that when someone is cursed the curse is attached to an evil spirit who then goes about executing the curse and the only way of finding redemption is by destroying the spirit. How the protagonist of the film goes about doing the same for the girl who he loves is the story,” he says.