Rahul Sadasivan’s deeply evocative ‘Bramayugam’ is not so much a horror movie as a movie about the timeless horrors of oppression
- Trinity Auditorium
- Mar 1, 2024
- 1 min read
The film stars Mammootty, Arjun Ashokan, Siddharth Bharathan. Despite a few reservations, it is a heady mix of fine acting and fine filmmaking.
There is a thesis waiting to be written about the various shades of villainy embodied by Mammootty in his legendary career. There are too many to be listed, but in his eighth decade alone – the actor is 72 now – we get the casteist bigot in Puzhu, the man with an endless appetite for revenge in Rorschach, and now we get Kodumon Potti in Rahul Sadasivan’s Bramayugam. And even this part harks back to one of Mammootty’s greatest villains, in Vidheyan. If that film’s Bhaskara Patelar was a former village chief who is now living on his terrorising reputation, Kodumon Potti appears to be a former feudal landlord now confined to his traditional (and decaying) mansion. And the servant’s part in Vidheyan is taken over by Arjun Ashokan, an oppressed-caste singer named Thevan who takes refuge in Kodumon Potti’s home.
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