Making of the Cult Horror : Do Gaz Zameen ke Neeche

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India’s first horror movie, Do Gaz Zameen ke neeche ... This video of ours talks about few less known facts of this cult classic.

None of the brothers actually admit to having butterflies in the stomach when Do Gaz Zameen Ke Neeche was released, an ‘A’ certificate giving it a sort of illegitimacy – and ‘B’-grade status –straightaway, making sure that a large chunk of the overall audience was not going to give it a second glance.

While shooting their first horror film, the Ramsay Brothers accidentally dug up a body. “Half a body,” says Tulsi Ramsay. It was October 1971. They were filming, appropriately, for Do Gaz Zameen Ke Neeche (Two Feet Beneath the Ground), India's first zombie movie, at a graveyard near Mahabaleshwar in Maharashtra.

The family audience, as the industry calls it, wasn’t going to watch Do Gaz Zameen Ke Neeche at all, as they wouldn’t most of the Ramsays’ later films either.

‘We knew that,’ Tulsi says. ‘We had made a low-budget film and we knew that only some young boys and girls would come to watch the film. You know, they will get a bit scared, they will cuddle a bit, thoda darr, thoda romance (a little fright, a little romance).’

‘It was a good film, it came out well, yes,’ Gangu says, going quiet for a while as he reminisces. Then he asks me how old I am. I tell him. ‘So you were not even born when Do Gaz Zameen Ke Neeche came out. You must have grown up seeing such slick films, all show-shaa. But at that time, remember this was 1972, no one had seen a film like this.

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