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In the 1970s, Ramsay Brothers introduced Indian audiences to a fear they hadn’t known before. Subtlety wasn’t exactly the forte of the films they produced and directed — and yet these films managed to send a chill down the spine of the audiences at the time. Even as modern Indian filmmakers finetune and redefine the genre, it cannot be denied that the Ramsay brand of horror was an important entry point for Indian films to horror. The question, however, remains — why did the filmmakers choose to stick to horror? Ghosts in our Backyard (published by HarperCollins), a new book written by Alisha Kirpalani whose maternal grandfather F.U. Ramsay was the patriarch of the family, examines the Ramsays’ own experiences with the supernatural, some of which inspired certain bone-chilling scenes in the films. In a conversation with wknd., she talks about the legacy of the Ramsays, and why her mother, despite being absent from the fame that the family enjoyed, may just have laid the foundations for it.
