New Delhi:
The trailer of his much-awaited Netflix project titled ‘Ghost Stories’ is here and the snippets are enough to shake you and haunt you in your dreams. The medley of four stories includes all the elements of gore and spook.
Karan Johar, one of the filmmakers utilising the date tweeted the trailer with the caption: “Friday the 13th would be incomplete without some chills, thrills and of course an absolute spook-fest... presenting the trailer of Ghost Stories! Coming 1st Jan! #YourFearsWillFindYou.”
A much-awaited anthology of four “mind-bending stories” from the horror genre, directors Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar and Dibakar Banerjee come together to give you goosebumps. They earlier collaborated on two more projects namely, ‘Bombay Talkies’ and ‘Lust Stories’ which was also for Netflix.
As for ‘Ghost Stories’, the trailer begins with Karan Johar story. After exchanging wedding vows a couple is seen consummating their marriage when the groom when the door creaks open and the groom greets his grandmother, who si not visible to his bride played by Mrunal Thakur. Things get awkward when the girl who obviously cannot see his grandmother questions her presence.
Later in the video, it is revealed that the grandmother is dead. When Mrunal says the same, she is told, “Woh guzri nahi hai, sirf marr gayi hai (She has not passed away, she just died).”
In Zoya Akhtar’s story, Janhvi Kapoor can be seen playing a nurse named Sameera, who takes care of an elderly patient, played by Surekha Sikri. She complains someone is at the door, however when Janhvi assures her there is no one the door and suddenly someone knocks at the door.
In the third segment, directed by Anurag Kashyap, Sobhita Dhulipala plays a pregnant woman. One of the most disturbing sequence in the trailer, a child is asking someone on his way to school if he will still get the same love once her aunty (Sobhita) has her own child. The clip then moves on to some creepy elements like feeding dolls that will remind you of Annabell a scarecrow and a little boy with a bloody face.
Dibakar Banerjee’s film has the protagonist asking a child about his dad, some disturbing visuals crop in and then another kid asks him to run in the dark when he asks him so.
‘Ghost Stories’ will begin streaming on Netflix from January 1, 2020.
