Tollywood gears up for a zombie movie

The Bengali film industry is all set for its first

zombie

movie —

Zombiesthaan

— written and directed by Abhirup Ghosh. The film has an interesting premise and stars Rudranil Ghosh and

Tnusree

Chakraborty, whose linkup rumours once did the rounds of Tollywood. A post-apocalyptic adventure, Zombiesthaan is set in the year 2030, when, on a certain Black Day, a mysterious bio-chemical weapon ends up affecting a vast majority of the world population. It turns people into ferocious, insane cannibals. Governments fall because of the freak accident and all telecommunications systems go out of order. The world is majorly destroyed. Barely 5% of the population is still alive. In these circumstances, a female survivor called Akira (Tnusree), is travelling through the wastelands of Bengal, in search of a possible safe zone established by the military to protect the VVIPs of the state.

The film follows her journey and her numerous encounters with different survivors as well as dangerous zombies. During her travels, she comes across Anil Chatterjee (Rudranil), a recluse, who has turned his house into a fortress and believes that the era of humans is over and the world is rebooting itself to make way for a new species. Akira also travels through a private estate, Horidas Nogor, and realises that a man called Raja Horidas has established monarchy and set a new world order in which women are kept as sex slaves and barter system is used for trade among different communities. The film takes the audiences on an exhilarating journey to the future. Zombiesthaan also stars Rajatava Dutta, Debolina Biswas, Jeena Tarafder, Sourav Saha, Souman Bose and others. While Ankkit Sengupta has been roped in as the cinematographer, music is by Megh Banerjee and Aviraj Sen.