Mainstream Hindi cinema hasn’t had a lot of zombies ambling about so far, but they have been first movers in India.
In 2013, Devaki Singh and Luke Kenny’s Rise of the Zombie pipped Raj & DK’s more popular Go Goa Gone by a month to become India’s first zombie film. It’s the tale of a nature photographer who finds himself changing into something not-quite-human after his girlfriend leaves him.
Go Goa Gone used humour, and a boys’-road-trip theme, to draw significantly larger numbers at the box office. It’s the story of three friends who wake up after a rave to find that the other party-goers have turned into zombies. It was co-produced by Saif Ali Khan, who also played a bleached-blond Russian zombie-slayer named Boris.
On a more serious note, Dibakar Banerjee’s dark and gripping untitled short in the anthology Ghost Stories (2020) follows an education officer as he moves into a remote rural district and discovers that zombies have infected everyone except a little boy and girl. This story offers thinly veiled allegories for religious fundamentalism, government neglect and government overreach.
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