Amazon Prime’s latest horror series Khauf has been in the news for all the right reasons. Written by Smita Singh and directed by Pankaj Kumar and Surya Balakrishnan, the show has done for viewers what most horror content in India fails to do – horror where CGI ghosts aren’t giving jumpscares. Khauf has managed to create multiple layers of horror – supernatural fear, the fear of being a woman in a world where there’s betrayal at every step from men. For those who have watched the show, the most obvious question lingers, will Khauf have a season 2? We find out.
Spoilers ahead.
The creator and director of the show, Smita Singh, recently spoke to Lifestyle Asia during an interview, where she spilled the beans. She revealed that as of now, even though Amazon is quite happy with the show’s success, they have not communicated if there will be a second season.
But, even though the show (almost) had a clear ending, there are hints that there’s more to the story than it meets the eye. Especially since we saw on numerous occasions that Jeeva’s spirit may not be fully gone.
Pankaj Kumar, who directed six out of eight episodes in Khauf season 1, including the finale, said in the same interview that he will helm the project once more if the script for season 2 is strong. He also added, “It all depends on the platform.”
During the interview, Smita was asked why she used horror to portray the story of Madhu’s human fears?
“Horror is so exciting, there is all the adrenaline rush, all the spooks and the thrills; that’s a very superficial level at which it exists. The other thing that it can do as a potential genre is that it can talk about things that are the residue of everything that we don’t look at. That’s inside you; that we don’t examine, that we don’t turn over, that we don’t really watch. People when they watch they’re trying to discover something. When you open that door what are you going to find? You go deeper down this basement what are you going to discover. So, there is some element of what is grotesque and what cannot be looked at which is hiding in the basement which I think is open to so many interpretations,” she said.