It's almost discomforting to visualise the picture that Ghoul background score composers Naren Chandavarkar and Benedict Taylor paint, when describing the lassitude of the environment that inspired their work. Having worked on Netflix's latest Indian offering - the horror that stars Radhika Apte at its front - Chandavarkar says the brief given to them from the onset was to focus on building an environment, instead of resorting to jump scares to keep the tension up.

"A large part of the series is set in an underground bunker with no daylight and no sense of time. The film is also set in a dystopian world. Many of its set pieces work with creating a sense of impending doom and alarm. So we created a few motivic elements that worked within that [like] scratchy synthetic sirens and martial drums."