Patrick Graham follows his horror series Ghoul with another scarefest, Shah Rukh Khan-backed Betaal. The director says he's incentivised to explore the genre given that few in Indian cinema are willing to do so. "I hope to dabble in other genres as well, but there is a gap in the market when it comes to dealing with scarefests. [Horror films are] either in-your-face [scary], or attached with an element of comedy. I like to play with the psychological aspect," he says of the zombie horror thriller, co-directed by Marathi filmmaker Nikhil Mahajan, whom the makers appointed given his "passion for the genre".

Viineet Kumar and Aahana Kumra's Netflix offering, the second digital project to be backed by Khan following 2019's Bard of Blood, is set in a village that becomes a battleground when a two-century-old East India Company colonel and his battalion of blood-thirsty zombies are released from their tomb.