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The genre cinema in the context of South Asian cinema can be categorized with two broader terms: indigenous and nonindigenous. Indigenous genres are produced by local culture, folklore and myth whereas, non-indigenous genres are adopted and maintained from foreign industries, primarily the Hollywood Industry. Within that context, horror and science fiction genres are non-indigenous genres for South Asian audiences. The current study aims to focus on horror genre that is considered as concoction of both Indigenous and non-indigenous genres. Arguably, the horror genre can be called a by-product after remaking of and redefining of many other genres in process. In this process, the foreign cinema contents are adapted and modified with the Indigenous cinema contents containing its own culture. As a result, a unique and rare brand of genre is created. The South Asian cinema industries particularly Pakistani and Indian cinema upgrade their version of horror cinema by relying on the binaries of east versus west, old versus new and good versus evil. Likewise, these cinemas also marginalize the subject matter as religious or secular. In that frame of reference, the horror genre of these cinemas backs and assists the belief in God, evil and religion. Thus, the believers, towards the end, are pulled out of the fire and the monsters that are shown as non-believers, are punished. Thereupon, the superiority is maintained by the religious protagonists in both Indian and Pakistani cinema industries.

Zubair Shafiq , Muhammad Muazzam Sharif, Wiqar Malik , Faraz Shafiq. (2020) ‘Remaking’ the Genre Cinema of South Asia, Journal of Pakistan Vision, Volume 21, Issue 1.
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