From one of India’s smartest film-makers, Sangeeth Sivan, comes Click, 2009’s most bone-chilling film. They say that pictures always tell a story. The true story. Click is the story of a young photographer and his girlfriend. He takes beautiful pictures and yet when they’re printed they hide a secret. A secret that is so dark, terrifying and menacing that he hides it from his girlfriend. A secret from his past that if revealed, threatens to ruin not only his life but that of his family, friends and loved ones. A secret that comes from a world that’s different from ours.

Pritish Nandy Communications and RNA Play Entertainment bring you scariest, darkest, most blood-curling film of the year, Click. What happens when the spirit world looks you straight in the eye and tells you to run or die?

About 6 years back, I had done a psychological thriller ‘Sandhya’. Whilst doing this film, I had seen quite a lot of J horror films, the name given to Japanese horrors. Though I was not a fan of the horror genre, I was quite impressed by their films and the fabulous mood that they created. The emphasis was on a story and on the atmosphere rather than gore and special effects. I kept wondering why such films couldn’t be made in India. The sensibilities of both the countries were very similar and the fact that these films did well commercially and was also being made into Hollywood films, renewed my vigor.

At that point of time there were no multiplexes and every distributor or producer I met discouraged me. It was during this time that I happened to get a few emails depicting pictures of spirits captured in a photo. Being an avid photographer myself, the idea of spirits being captured in a photo intrigued me and set me thinking. There also used to be a TV series wherein people would visit haunted castles and try to capture the spirits that were haunting the place. Keeping all this in mind, we set out to write a script. But when I approached producers they were very reluctant to finance such a venture which did not feature stars. So we decided to produce the film ourselves and make the film the way we wanted to make it. The end result of our work is Click.

Sangeeth Sivan