Rise Of The Zombie - Bollywood Production Context

The film Rise of the Zombie was a horror genre this is because of the brutality, gore and inhumane behaviour shown in the movie. And all of these actions are committed by a zombie who eats human flesh and insects. But the whole horror genre starts from the idea that the main character travels to a forest far from the civilization meaning that it is very desolate so no-one would be able to help him if something happens and that is what happens, he gets bitten and there is no way he could get any help, as he thinks that he is alright and no-one else saw what happened to him so no-one is worried about it and they won’t put him in hospital. Furthermore, there is one more aspect which makes this film a horror genre, it is the parts of the bodies which the main character finds everywhere, like hands, eyes and other parts, it is really scary to find something like that in the place where you are, especially if you have no idea what is happening to you; you don’t expect it, and even don’t remember what happened to the owner of these body parts.

The production context that this film related to is Bollywood, this is because of the place where all the action is happening, in India. This is shown not only through the location but also by the language in which they speak in mostly, Hindi, and by the food which is brought to the main character by one of the villagers, which is probably one of their traditional foods. Also, the production context is represented by the effects that they use, because of their small budget they aren’t using any SFX but to make the main character look like a zombie they put a lot of make-up on him to lighten his face, make wounds on him and apply the fake blood. Another aspect is the music, which is just classical in all the Bollywood movies. Furthermore, the action is taking really long to develop, and the viewer is waiting really long to see if there would be any action that would define the climax of the movie, but there is barely any. Also, the star in this movie is Luke Kenny, which isn’t a really famous person in our regions of the world, but I can guess that he might be famous in India and some regions around it, because he not only directed the movie but also, played the role of the main character.

The production context relates to the film by the narrative, dialogue, characters and locations used. The dialogues are mostly in Hindi but there are some English words used which I think is just pathetic, as it is shown in this movie how much they want to drive to the Hollywood style of films. But even though they try to do so, the dialogue that they use is all said in nice language, there is no swearing or other bad language so they still keep to the Bollywoods’ standards, but drive into the Hollywood direction. Also, the locations used in the film, they seem like India’s shanty town and forest. They show completely different standards of filming compared to Hollywood. Furthermore, the narrative of the film is concentrated around the feelings of the main characters which are the typical course of action that is taken by the Bollywood. And even though they broke up at the beginning of the movie, the main character keeps on calling the girl, and then she tries to find him after his disappearance, so this means that even though they argued their relationship, might still develop throughout the movie, which is really weird but I guess that they might feel bad about what happened between them. The production context is also, represented by the characters that play in the movie. All of them are from India, but the main character and his uncle have English surnames which is another move towards the Hollywood context. But, because there was a much smaller budget for this production than for the Hollywood one, there were far less characters playing in it, which didn't even fill out the 7 spheres of action. So, this shows that this production context is way different from the Hollywood context which usually tries to put many characters in the film, to fill out all the 7 spheres.

The technology which was used in this film was much more limited than the one used for Hollywood production, this is because Hollywood used CGI to make their zombies, which made them look very realistic, and really scary. But just because Bollywood didn't have the same technology it doesn't mean that the zombie looked worse, it was just a smaller scale apocalypse than in the World War Z. The Bollywood context used mostly SFX make-up to make the zombie look realistic and with the various lightning techniques, it looked pretty scary at points. At other points, the zombie looked very gruesome, especially, when he was ripping his skin from his arm to show how he is changing and along with him his body. But apart from the visual techniques, the film was lacking in soundtrack, the jumpy bits should have such soundtrack that would scare the viewer, just like in World War Z when the family was running up the stairs to the helicopter, there was a lot of soundtrack there which made the viewer jump each time the zombies came out. Whereas, in Rise of the Zombie, there is a lot of that missing, as when the main character attacks the people, it's not even scary because of the lack of the soundtrack. Also, there was one mistake which I spotted in that movie, when the main character rips out the heart from a man chest he puts his hand in the part of the body where stomach would be or even the start of intestines, but still rips the heart out, I think that it would look more realistic if he would put the hand a bit higher, at the height of the sternum.