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‘Video' teaser: YouTubers investigate a haunted property in Srinidhi Bengaluru's found footage thriller
The teaser to Srinidhi Bengaluru's sophmore film Video was released on Saturday. Produced under Dheekshith Shetty's Dhee Cinemas banner, the movie is set to revive the found-footage horror genre after a long gap in Kannada cinema. In 2013, 6-5=2, a found footage horror thriller, was a runaway hit at the Sandalwood box office.
The teaser begins with a content creator promising to narrate a haunted case for his viewers. Then, we are shown, two women who are in on a quest to investigate the presence of ghosts. Interspersed with cuts of gory shots, the tone of the film is made evident – one of gore and horror.
We are then introduced to a group of friends who vlog their lives for the internet and then chance upon the haunted place in due course. The video of their time at the place ends up becoming the last video on the channel. The teaser drums up the mystery about the film aptly.
'The film is shot in a vlog format and documentary style as well,' Srinidhi tells The Hindu. 'We have used minimal lights to do justice to the genre. The film is shot using GoPro, DSLR, Osmo and mobile cameras to produce the effect of watching a found-footage movie,' says Srinidhi.
Bharatha, Jeevan Shivakumar, Tejesh SM, Priya J Achar and Nalme Nachiyar are the actors in the movie. 'Dheekshith is set to play a special role,' says Srinidhi. The team of technicians which worked for Blink has been retained in Video, says Srinidhi. Avinaasha Shastry has handled cinematography while Sanjeev Jagirdar has done the editing. Prasanna Kumar is the music composer of the movie.
Video has been shot in Bengaluru and Mudigere.
