Sao Paulo [Brazil]: Filmmaker Zoya Akhtar made everyone nostalgic with a teaser for her film The Archies, a coming-of-age, live-action musical set in 1960s India based on the teenagers of Riverdale. On Saturday, the most-awaited teaser was released during Netflix's Tudum fan event. The film marks the debut of Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan's daughter Suhana, Boney Kapoor and late Sridevi's daughter Khushi Kapoor and megastar Amitabh Bachchan's grandson Agastya.
The over one-minute teaser reveals that the film is set in 1964 in Riverdale, described on a railway sign as a "hill station," a term dating back to colonial time that refers to a town located at a higher elevation than the nearby plain. One of the transport links servicing the hill stations are small mountain railway trains running on narrow gauge tracks, known affectionately in India as "toy trains" and the teaser opens with a shot of top train puffing into Riverdale station.
