Suparn
Verma,
who
has
directed
Bollywood's
latest
horror
film
Aatma,
says
the
genre
has
found
a
new
lease
of
life
in
Hindi
cinema
thanks
to
popular
actresses
like
Bipasha
Basu.
He
believes
horror
genre
was
once
considered
B-grade
cinema
in
Bollywood.
That,
he
said,
has
changed.
"I
think
horror
has
always
had
a
huge
audience
for
a
very
long
time.
It's
just
that
we
have
been
making
less
of
horror
cinema.
Also,
it
is
only
in
recent
years,
with
Bipasha
kind
of
starting
it
off,
when
A-listers
have
started
doing
horror
cinema.
"Until
then,
it
was
treated
as
B-grade
cinema,
a
sub-genre
of
cinema.
Today
it
has
become
respectful.
The
audience
is
huge," Suparn
said
at
a
promotional
event
held
for
Aatma.
Verma's
Aatma,
co-starring
Bipasha
and
Nawazuddin
Siddiqui,
released
Friday.
Bipasha
has
done
quite
a
few
horror
films
like
Raaz
(2002),
Darna
Zaroori
Hai
(2006)
and
Raaz
3
(2012).
Verma
also
said
the
availability
of
new
techniques
has
increased
the
possibilities
that
can
be
explored
in
the
genre.
"Now
we
have
started
pushing
the
envelope.
We
have
new
stories
and
techniques
coming
out.
With
horror
there
is
a
lot
more
play,
technically,
which
you
can't
do
with
romantic
(films).
There,
you
can
only
show
romance,
but
in
horror,
there
is
morality,
fear...
you
can
show
a
lot
actually," he
said.
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