High-End Yoga Gets a Blood-Soaked Reality Check in ‘Namaslay’ – HorrorFuel.com

If you’ve ever paid $45 for a hot yoga class only to listen to an instructor in Lululemon mispronounce Sanskrit for an hour, Junghal Studios has made a movie specifically for you. The teaser for Namaslay has officially dropped, turning the Western wellness industry upside down in a glorious, blood-soaked cultural reckoning. Billed as a genre-bending horror satire, the film set out to reclaim the spirit of classic masala cinema. All while utterly skewering the commercialization and cultural appropriation of yoga in the West. The Cult of Hot Yoga The story follows Gayatri (Kirunthuja Srikanth-Talim). She’s a newcomer to Los Angeles who agrees to accompany her friend to an upscale yoga studio. The studio’s founder, Reyna (Christina Moore), offers Gayatri a spot in her elite instructor training program. Looking past the obvious red flags and Hollywood eccentricities, Gayatri accepts, using the opportunity to reconnect with the authentic yoga practice taught to her by her grandmother. But when she’s invited to a prestigious, ultra-exclusive instructor’s retreat, she realizes she wasn’t brought along to teach—she was brought along as part of a much darker, sinister agenda. What Exactly Is a “Masala” Movie? For the uninitiated, Masala films originated in 1970s Indian cinema
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