Betaal — the Netflix zombie horror series produced by Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies — runs for just four hours long episodes in total. For those who are thinking that it is more, well, beta producer, co-writer, and co-director Patrick Graham wouldn't be drawn to a straight answer. Speaking to Gadgets 360, Graham stated that Betal was intended as a "single, abbreviated look" series. At the same time, he is "open-minded" about a season 2, as it "can move forward as a story".
“I think that I don't know the answer to that question as yet,” Graham said, when asked on the possibilities of Betaal season 2. “It could go on as a story, but right now, it was kind of intended as a single, encapsulated [series].”
He puts Betal in the same category as Graham's previous Netflix project, the Radhika Apte-led supernatural dystopian horror ghoul, which also had an open end and left room for follow-up when Netflix was hooked. However it did not come to pass. And this is not just a similarity between Betal and Ghoul. The runtime of the two is close to a (long) Bollywood film. Ghoul lasted approximately 2 hours and 17 minutes, and Betaal is one hour long.
“Well, Ghoul was a longish movie because it was originally a movie and we added half an hour to it,” Graham said. “And even if you were writing for three episodes, you might still consider it as a longish movie. But I think with Betaal, because it's four episodes and it starts to approach the three-hour mark, we didn't approach it in the same way as we would writing a movie.”
“We structured it as a series. We had different act structures with Betaal than we had with Ghoul. And I think that probably comes across in the sense that each episode is now [its own thing],” he said. “Episode two, for example, is kind of the spooky haunted house episode. And episode three is more of an action episode. So they each have their different flavour.”
“Also with Ghoul, you were always with Nida [Apte], as the protagonist. You only had really one perspective throughout the series. But with Betaal, we've now got many different subplots and different characters, all with their own arc and their own story.”
While it may seem like Graham's case that one is moving from one to another miniseries, rather than developing a second season, it is generally not for the creators. Since they are Netflix series, the streaming service has sole power in making another run to its core. Graham is happy with either.
“With Ghoul, the story could have continued, but it doesn't necessarily have to,” Graham added. “It's still a satisfying piece of work in its totality, as it is right now [on Betaal]. So I'm open minded about the whole thing. And really, it's not up to me, unfortunately.”
“I think that I don't know the answer to that question as yet,” Graham said, when asked on the possibilities of Betaal season 2. “It could go on as a story, but right now, it was kind of intended as a single, encapsulated [series].”
He puts Betal in the same category as Graham's previous Netflix project, the Radhika Apte-led supernatural dystopian horror ghoul, which also had an open end and left room for follow-up when Netflix was hooked. However it did not come to pass. And this is not just a similarity between Betal and Ghoul. The runtime of the two is close to a (long) Bollywood film. Ghoul lasted approximately 2 hours and 17 minutes, and Betaal is one hour long.
“Well, Ghoul was a longish movie because it was originally a movie and we added half an hour to it,” Graham said. “And even if you were writing for three episodes, you might still consider it as a longish movie. But I think with Betaal, because it's four episodes and it starts to approach the three-hour mark, we didn't approach it in the same way as we would writing a movie.”
“We structured it as a series. We had different act structures with Betaal than we had with Ghoul. And I think that probably comes across in the sense that each episode is now [its own thing],” he said. “Episode two, for example, is kind of the spooky haunted house episode. And episode three is more of an action episode. So they each have their different flavour.”
“Also with Ghoul, you were always with Nida [Apte], as the protagonist. You only had really one perspective throughout the series. But with Betaal, we've now got many different subplots and different characters, all with their own arc and their own story.”
While it may seem like Graham's case that one is moving from one to another miniseries, rather than developing a second season, it is generally not for the creators. Since they are Netflix series, the streaming service has sole power in making another run to its core. Graham is happy with either.
“With Ghoul, the story could have continued, but it doesn't necessarily have to,” Graham added. “It's still a satisfying piece of work in its totality, as it is right now [on Betaal]. So I'm open minded about the whole thing. And really, it's not up to me, unfortunately.”
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