South Cinema vs Hindi Cinema: Till date, many films have been made in Hindi cinema on different topics. One of which was also based on zombies, but that film was based on the classic zombies of Hindi cinema, named ‘Go Goa Gone’. When ‘Go Goa Gone’ was released in the year 2013, it was a new experience for the Hindi cinema audience and after this the fans became hopeful that films based on it would continue to be made here too but it did not happen.
At the same time, South Cinema made many films one after the other based on zombies. Why did it happen that Hindi cinema ended the expectations of the audience after ‘Go Goa Gone’? But South cinema understood the taste of the audience and made many films on this topic.
South Indian films based on zombies
If you like South films, then here we have brought a list for you in which we will tell you about those films of South cinema which are made on zombies. Watching these films, you will be hooked to the film from beginning to end.
zombie
The film Zombie, directed by Bhuvan Nullan R in the year 2019, is a Tamil film. It was also dubbed in Hindi. It is shown in this film that three friends, troubled with their daily life, go on a trip. Wherever they reach, zombies attack them. You can watch this film on Sun NXT OTT.
g-zombie
You can watch Aryan Gowra’s film G-Zombie, released in the year 2021, on YouTube. This film is in Telugu language which has also been dubbed in Hindi. The story of a young doctor and his team is shown in this film. A doctor prepares a vaccine to fight a terrible virus, but the person who uses it turns into a zombie.
Zombie Reddy
Zombie Reddy, a 2011 Telugu film directed by Prashanth Varma, stars Teja Sajja in the lead role. You can watch this film on ZEE5. In this film, a boy named Malio is a game developer and he goes to another place for his friend’s wedding. Here he remains lost in his game world but the people from the game meet him in real life and then there is a twist in the story.
miruthan
You can watch Shakti Soundar Rajan’s film Miruthan, released in 2016, for free on MX Player. This film is based on zombies and Jayan Ravi is seen in the lead role. This is a Telugu film which has been dubbed in Hindi with the name ‘Daring Rakhwala’.
The story of this film is such that a dangerous virus spreads and everyone becomes zombies. The one who destroys this virus comes before time and what happens next, you will get to see in the film.
How did South cinema compete with Hindi cinema?
When Indian cinema was started by Dadasaheb Phalke in the year 1913 till now, there is a difference of about 100 years in Indian cinema. Hindi cinema started first, after that South cinema was formed and then gradually films started being made in every language. Hindi cinema made films on almost every topic but somewhere the story of rabbit and tortoise fit here.
Actually, Hindi cinema i.e. Bollywood is still one of the biggest film industries in the world, but the inclination of the Hindi audience has shifted towards the South in the last few years. Ever since ‘Bahubali’ came out, films like ‘KGF’, ‘Pushpa’, ‘RRR’ have attracted the Hindi audience.
If we talk about films based on zombies, then in the year 2013, a film based on zombies was made in Bollywood which could not make any special collection, but the film lovers still talk about it. After this such films were not made. Many films and web series have been made in the South. Even now people wait more for the sequels or new films of the previous series of South films than for Bollywood films. This clearly means that the South is showing in films which is far beyond the imagination of the audience.
How is ‘Go Goa Gone’?
In the year 2013, Raj Nidhimoru and Krishna DK made the film Go Goa Gone. In this, there are three friends (Kunal Khemu, Anand Tiwari, Veer Das) who go to Goa for a holiday but end up on an island.
Here he meets Saif Ali Khan who takes the contract to eliminate zombies. People on that island become zombies after being injected with a wrong medicine. The film is comedy, thriller and horror. According to reports, this film, made for Rs 19 crores, had collected around Rs 40 crores at the box office. You can watch this film for free on Zee5 and YouTube.