Achu Vijayan’s ‘Vichitram’, with Shine Tom Chacko and Kani Kusruti, is a lovely ghost story filled with lovelier human drama

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Achu Vijayan’s Vichitram is built on a supernatural framework, and right from the first frame, there’s an otherworldly quality to the images. We see swaying arms. We see the tip of a paintbrush pressed on a canvas and we hear the squishy sound of paint. And then, we see a gentle smile. We hear about a big house that has a big history. It’s just the kind of creaky old mansion you’d find in a horror movie. Only, Vichitram is not a “horror movie”. It’s a ghost story – or rather, it is a story about ghosts. Look at the way Jasmine (Jolly Chirayath) prepares two cups of tea. She drinks one, and leaves the other for Paul, her husband, whose picture hangs on a wall. Habits are ghosts, too. They stay with us long after people are gone. Some of us slowly forget the dead. Jasmine remembers Paul every day. We make ritual offerings to the dead. Why not a casual cup of tea?

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