Author name: K. Hari Kumar

Harikumar Krishnamoorthy, better known as K. Hari Kumar, is an Indian novelist and screenwriter born in Cochin and brought up in Gurgaon. His first book When Strangers Meet was published in 2013, followed by That Frequent Visitor, A Game of Gods and The Other Side Of Her.

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INTERVIEW| Fear defines horror and the reader must be able to perceive that: Author K. Hari Kumar

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Inspiration comes from all quarters; films, folktales and even cartoons. I have read stories from Chandamama, and ghost stories of Charles Dickens, Satyajit Ray and Ruskin Bond. Pet Sematary was the full-fledged horror novel that made a deep impact in my mind. The Butcher’s Theater by Jonathan Kellerman made me realise that every horror story does not have a supernatural entity. This served as an inspiration for my book, That Frequent Visitor (2015).

How to write the screenplay for a short film
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How to write screenplay for a short film?

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Before I begin writing, I sit down, take a piece of paper and scribble down the story idea point by point (sequentially). Some of these points might be just one word, while others might be as long as a paragraph. I take an entire day (without breaks) to finish this outline of the story which is called ‘the skeleton’ or structure of the story.

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Ariyathe Ariyathe (Lyrics and Meaning in English)

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There are songs that soothe the soul, and then there are songs that transport you to another world altogether. Ariyathe from Ravanaprabhu belongs to the latter. To those who understand Malayalam, it feels like a divine blessing—a secret doorway into the realm of poetry and music that others, sadly, may never fully comprehend. The unparalleled

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Why is the horror genre still an underrated one in India?

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Screenwriter and bestselling horror writer K. Hari Kumar finds the genre’s market marginalised and untapped despite our rich oral horror tradition. “Only few retain the taste in horror, while majority keep away because of the fear it instilled in their mind. The tendency to choose an international writer sometimes puts Indian English writers of the genre at a disadvantage. The equation changes when horror readers from regional languages switch to Indian English or our books are translated into regional languages,” he says.

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‘Brahm is a heady mix of paranormal and psychological elements’: Kalki and Sanjay on ZEE5 show

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Bhram is based on K Hari Kumar’s 2018 novel, The Other Side Of Her. The show is directed by Sangeeth Sivan. Kalki says she started prepping for the show by reading real-life accounts of accident survivors. “Sangeeth sent me stories of people who had gone through accidents but couldn’t recall it because of trauma. In such cases, certain sensory details would trigger them, like a smell or a piece of clothing.” 

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