‘The Archies’ trailer: Suhana Khan, Khushi Kapoor, Agastya Nanda team up to save Riverdale | Watch

The much-awaited trailer of Zoya Akhtar’s ‘The Archies’ has been released.

It takes us into Riverdale where teenagers Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead, Dilton, Ethel, Moose, and others spend their time dancing and romancing. Their life changes when Veronica’s father begins to take over the town with his business expansion plans. The gang then teams up to protect their home.

The film marks the debut of Suhana Khan, Khushi Kapoor and Agastya Nanda, alongside Vedang Raina, Mihir Ahuja, Yuvraj Menda and Aditi Dot.

Two songs of the forthcoming movie have been released— ‘Va Va Vroom’ and ‘Sunoh’. The songs have been penned by Javed Akhtar.

‘Sunoh’ has been composed by Ankur Tiwari, while ‘Va Va Vroom’ is composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy.

Speaking at the Bollywood Hungama OTT India Fest 2023, Zoya explained the reason she chose to opt for newcomers for the film.

‘We were clear that we wanted newcomers because they are such iconic characters and getting anybody who is already very well-known would bring their baggage onto it or their image onto it, good or bad. Also, they (characters) are 17-year-old in the film, so we needed kids that were teenagers,’ the filmmaker said.

Zoya said when Netflix made her ‘an offer’ to adapt and set the popular comics in India, she couldn’t refuse.

‘I didn’t know what I wanted to do next, they got ‘Archies’ to me, which is one of our favourite comics, I grew up on this. I was like, ‘How can I take this, retain its essence and make it from India?’ ‘Since it’s a global IP, I need to be able to take something from here and do it in a language that retains its original essence and speaks to kids today. We were excited about that. We have done whatever we wanted to and now we are getting scared, as always,’ she added.

‘The Archies’ will be released on Netflix on December 7.