Sajin Shrijith’s review of Rahul Sadasivan’s ‘Bramayugam’: Dracula and Faust meet in a horror fan’s dream

After Bhoothakalam, writer-director Rahul Sadasivan treats audiences to another stellar horror masterwork .

Halfway into Bramayugam, I immediately recalled what Martin Scorsese once said about using black-and-white to serve an artistic purpose in Raging Bull—a few reasons. To stay true to an earlier period, to tone down the colour of the blood, and to suit characters that are not likeable, among others. This format makes perfect sense in the case of Bramayugam because it seems to take place in a realm between life and death, between black and white… This choice also speaks to the colourless, excruciating life of isolation led by two principal characters. (Remember Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson in The Lighthouse, also shot in black-and-white?).

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