THE PODCAST
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Indian Noir is India’s most critically acclaimed, chart-topping crime and horror storytelling podcast. Indian Noir has been featured in Harper’s Bazaar, India Today, CBC, The Hindu, Times of India, New Indian Express, Hindustan Times, Deccan Herald, The Statesman, The Week, The Telegraph, Femina, The Economic times, Mid-Day, The News Minute, The Quint, ABC Radio, Mashable, Reader's Digest India, Men's World, Your Story and other media outlets. It has won rave reviews on major podcasting platforms from critics and listeners alike and is a chart-topper on the global Amazon, Apple & Spotify Podcast Fiction and Drama charts. It also has blockbuster ratings on JioSaavn, Gaana and other major Indian audio streaming apps.
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THE HOST
Indian Noir is voiced by Nikesh Murali, a professional voice actor and an Amazon bestselling, Commonwealth Short Story Prize and DWL Story Prize-winning writer. Nikesh has also received honourable mentions for the Katha Short Story Prize twice. Nikesh was among the top creative talents from India (including Amitabh Bachchan, Karan Johar, Anil Kapoor, Farhan Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap, Tabu, Nawazuddin Siddiqui) selected to create original shows for Audible Suno.
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Nikesh is the author of a multi-award winning, Amazon bestselling short story collection 'The Killing fields'. His novel 'His Night Begins', which was praised by Crime Fiction Lover magazine for its 'terse action scenes and brutal energy', was released to critical acclaim and earned him the tag of the 'most hardboiled of Indian crime writers' from World Literature Today Journal.
Nikesh is also an internationally acclaimed spoken poetry artist. His readings of some of the greatest poets of this generation on Twitter & Instagram (@indiannoir) are viral sensations, which have been viewed over a million times. His work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry in 2007. |
CRIME/THRILLERS
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In an alternate India ruled by corrupt politicians, criminal syndicates and violent mobsters, remorseless contract killer Virat Nariman has been called out to execute a mark in exchange for information on his daughter’s killers.
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Anya’s headless body found in a dumpster, drives the hitman to hunt every link in the long chain of a sex trafficking ring. Unknown to Virat, the fate of Gulab Sharma, a 17 year old kidnapped from the heart of Indraprastha journeying through the sex slave pipeline, is tied to his success.
Will he manage to deliver bloody justice to the criminals who exploit and mercilessly murder women? Will Gulab run out of time? Find out in 'His Night Begins'. |
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Independent India has faced many threats from within and without. Most of them have been thwarted thanks to the courage, skills and intellect of the men and women who serve in our military and intelligence organisations.
But sometimes, our enemies win. |
In the aftermath of the 26/11 attacks, a deep-cover black ops agency was created to eliminate threats from within - anarchist death cults, vicious double agents, traitorous political cabals, clandestine terror cells and dangerous puppets of enemy states.
Only 3 things are known about this secretive organisation: • Their agents are deployed as a trio - a stealthy intelligence operative, a lethal special forces soldier and a cunning field commander. • Their motto is ‘Death to our enemies’. • In classified logs they are referred to as 'Trishul'. |
HORROR
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FEAR FM is Indian Noir’s flagship horror show which chronicles Ekta Ji’s (a psychic) and Dhruman Baba’s (a tantrik) battle against the forces of darkness that emerge from the forests of Narakaranya.
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INDIAN NOIR X showcases popular urban myths and real life supernatural encounters from India.
INDIAN NOIR ONE-SHOT brings short terrifying audio tales for lovers of horror short fiction.
All these imprints are now streaming on Indian Noir. Just look for the episode label to choose your audio tour of hell.
INDIAN NOIR ONE-SHOT brings short terrifying audio tales for lovers of horror short fiction.
All these imprints are now streaming on Indian Noir. Just look for the episode label to choose your audio tour of hell.
FANTASY
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ONE OF BELLO COLLECTIVE’S 100 OUTSTANDING PODCASTS FROM 2020 & HONOURABLE MENTION FOR 2020 GOLDEN CRANE AWARDS
Many centuries have passed since the great Battle of Kurukshetra. The tales of valor and bravery and the triumph of good over evil from that time of gods and mighty warriors are just that…tales. Stories parents tell their children to instil bravery in their children for they live in a cruel world. No avatar protects the lands of Bharat, as evil in the form of demons and sorcerers and bandits and despotic rulers and all manners of creatures that dwell in the darkness of hell are unleashed upon its innocent denizens. |
2 souls walk this hell on earth. A brother and a sister, a warrior monk and a ranger, born in the lineage of Shatanika, one of the sons of the mighty Pandavas. They are on a quest to erase a curse upon their family. Nothing about this adventure will be easy.
Inspired by great Hindu epics and hitherto unexplored aspects of Indian mythology, HEIRS OF THE PANDAVAS is a medieval fantasy action adventure for fans of Netflix’s Witcher, Lord of the Rings and the popular Mahabharata and Ramayana TV serials. This unmissable podcast series written and narrated by Nikesh andf produced by Wyn Studios, features fantastical representations of pan-Indian geography, unexplored creatures from the annals of Indian myths and thrillingly described combat sequences. |
Horror Resources
GOLDEN AGE WRITERS
Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, Robert W. Chambers &
H. P. Lovecraft
MODERN WRITERS
Robert Aickman, Richard Gavin, Karl Edward Wagner, T.E.D Klein, Simon Strantzas, Kathe Koja, Thomas Ligotti & Laird Barron.
IMPORTANT READINGS
The scholarly works of S.T. Joshi available via Amazon:
Lovecraft, H.P. Notes on Writing Weird Fiction, 1937.
Camara, A. C. (2013). Dark Matter: British Weird Fiction and the Substance of Horror, 1880-1927.
Marshall, Kate. "The Old Weird." Modernism/modernity, vol. 23 no. 3, 2016, p. 631-649.
Joshi, S. T. “Establishing the Canon of Weird Fiction.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol. 14, no. 3 (55), 2003, pp. 333–341.
Newell, J. (2017). The daemonology of unplumbed space : weird fiction, disgust, and the aesthetics of the unthinkable (T). University of British Columbia.
Fisher, Mark. The Weird and the Eerie. Repeater Books, 2017.
Luckhurst, R. (2016). Weird Stories: The Potency of Horror and Fantasy. In D. Head (Ed.), The Cambridge History of the English Short Story (pp. 447-463). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Timothy Jarvis (2017) The weird, the posthuman, and the abjected world-in-itself: fidelity to the ‘Lovecraft Event’ in the work of Caitlín R. Kiernan and Laird Barron, Textual Practice, 31:6, 1133-1148.
Vandermeer, Ann & Vandermeer, Jeff. The New Weird. Tachyon Publications, 2008. GOLDEN AGE WRITERS
Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, Robert W. Chambers &
H. P. Lovecraft
Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, Robert W. Chambers &
H. P. Lovecraft
MODERN WRITERS
Robert Aickman, Richard Gavin, Karl Edward Wagner, T.E.D Klein, Simon Strantzas, Kathe Koja, Thomas Ligotti & Laird Barron.
IMPORTANT READINGS
The scholarly works of S.T. Joshi available via Amazon:
- Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction
- The Weird Tale
- The Modern Weird Tale
- Weird Fiction in the Later 20th Century
- 21st-Century Horror: Weird Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium
Lovecraft, H.P. Notes on Writing Weird Fiction, 1937.
Camara, A. C. (2013). Dark Matter: British Weird Fiction and the Substance of Horror, 1880-1927.
Marshall, Kate. "The Old Weird." Modernism/modernity, vol. 23 no. 3, 2016, p. 631-649.
Joshi, S. T. “Establishing the Canon of Weird Fiction.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol. 14, no. 3 (55), 2003, pp. 333–341.
Newell, J. (2017). The daemonology of unplumbed space : weird fiction, disgust, and the aesthetics of the unthinkable (T). University of British Columbia.
Fisher, Mark. The Weird and the Eerie. Repeater Books, 2017.
Luckhurst, R. (2016). Weird Stories: The Potency of Horror and Fantasy. In D. Head (Ed.), The Cambridge History of the English Short Story (pp. 447-463). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Timothy Jarvis (2017) The weird, the posthuman, and the abjected world-in-itself: fidelity to the ‘Lovecraft Event’ in the work of Caitlín R. Kiernan and Laird Barron, Textual Practice, 31:6, 1133-1148.
Vandermeer, Ann & Vandermeer, Jeff. The New Weird. Tachyon Publications, 2008. GOLDEN AGE WRITERS
Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, Robert W. Chambers &
H. P. Lovecraft
