Saqib Saleem: “We need more horror movies for Indian audiences”

Saqib Saleem is about to be seen sharing the screen with his sister Huma Qureshi, in the remake of the Hollywood horror film ‘Oculus’.

Titled ‘Dobaara’, Saleem spoke about horror films in the Indian film industry. “We need more horror movies for Indian audiences. That’s why we have cracked this Hollywood adaptation for our audiences, with a little Hindustani tadka in it. I say so because as Indians have an audience for Hollywood and Korean horror films. Thus, serving spooky movies the right way is indeed the need for our Indian audiences,” Asian Age reports the actor stating.

He went on to say, “Horror films need to have the right amount of drama, thrill and the scary element. We cannot apply white powder on  faces, pretending to be ghosts, and feed something to our audiences. We need to give them something in the real space; our horror movies need to graduate from showing just a tantric.”

Saleem also spoke about his relationship with his sister. “We do possess sibling rivalry; however we are great friends as well.We fight, and we’re cool at times, sharing so many interesting conversations,” he expressed.

The actor went on to add, “I remember, whenever we would play cricket inside the house, Huma would always scold me and tell me not to do so. She worried I may break something inside the house. And that would actually happen. (Laughs).”

Talking about ‘Dobaara’, Saleem revealed, “Dobaara is a fun film for us. In the movie, we’ve experiences an incident during our childhood days, and Huma believes in the existence of evil. I don’t feel any such existence of evil in this film. To know what exactly that one event is, you’ll have to wait and watch the film.”

Directed by Prawaal Raman, ‘Dobaara’ is set to hit the big screens on 2nd June.