Shah Rukh Khan has come up with an innovative way to promote his upcoming production venture, web-series Betaal. Announcing a contest for budding filmmakers, SRK asked them to shoot a scary movie indoors, keeping in mind the nationwide lockdown. After Emraan Hashmi-starrer Bard of Blood that released on Netflix in 2019, Betaal is Shah Rukh's Red Chillies Entertainment's second OTT outing. The zombie-horror series starring Viineet Kumar, Aahana Kumra and Suchitra Pillai in the lead, will stream on Netflix from May 24. SRK took to his social media handles to share details about the task.
The superstar laid down a few rules to be followed while accepting this challenge, which include - choose any camera available, a prop that can be used spookily but has to be readily available at home and it can be a solo project or you can choose multiple people provided you follow the social distancing guidelines. "Since we’ve all got a bit of time on our hands in quarantine, thought I can get us all to work a bit... in a fun, creative and... spooky way! #SpookSRK Read on for more details," SRK captioned his post.
"Since we've all got a bit of time on our hands in quarantine, thought I can get us all to work a bit... in a fun, creative and spooky way. How about channel the inner filmmaking ghost in us to make a scary indoor film with an element of horror in it.," the statement read.
People can mail their work to teamdigital@redchillies.com latest by May 18. The video entries will be judged by Betaal co-director Patrick Graham, cast Viineet Kumar and Aahana Kumra, and Gaurav Verma of Red Chillies Entertainment, producers of the show. "Ghosts are welcome to send their entries too," SRK quipped.
The three winners will get to be on a video call with Shah Rukh and the Betaal team.
