Writer-director Terrie Samundra makes her feature debut with the Netflix Original Film Kaali Khuhi which is set for a 2020 release.
Shabana Azmi, Leela Samson, and Sanjeeda Sheikh star in the film set “in the dark fields of a rural village, a man breaks apart the remains of an old boarded-up well that houses secrets of a horrific past. His act unleashes a spirit that has cursed this village in the past. Taking the form of a little girl, the spirit returns to wreak havoc. She sneaks her way into the house of a respected old woman, causing the woman to have a heart attack.
When Shivangi gets word that her grandmother has suddenly fallen ill, she travels to her village with her parents to care for her. There, Shivangi finds herself at the crux of a gruesome legacy and unforeseen future as the village is haunted. Events unfold revealing dark secrets. As the adults quickly grow incapable of helping, the fate of the village rests solely in Shivangi’s hands.”
Samundra is also the writer-director of the short films Ice Cream Wallah, Kunjo, and A Short Tale of Xuan which have both screened in film festivals internationally, garnering accolades. She is a Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab alumna, a SFFILM/Kenneth Rainin Screenwriting fellow, and alumna of the Sundance Women in Film Finance Lab.
She has written extensively with her creative partner David Walter Lech on the original screenplays Kaali Khuhi, Woman on the Hill, Betamax, and Western Interior Seaway, and the episodic series “The Ballad of Pooja” and “The Blood Below”. Samundra is a National Geographic Grant recipient, a Princess Grace Award recipient, and an active member of the Writer’s Guild of America. She’s a comic book and genre geek and represented by the Gersh Agency.
Kaali Khuhi is out today on Netflix and features English subtitles.
