Anand Gandhi on shooting horror films: 'Colour system often-misunderstood science'

Anand Gandhi's film Tumbbad completes two years of its release. periodic horror drama is directed by Rahi Anil Barve, alongside Anand Gandhi credited for being creative director. 2018's film stars Sohum Shah in lead role. maker of film, Anand Gandhi recently shared his secrets of creating epic horror film, Tumbbad.

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Anand Gandhi on shooting a horror film 

In an interview with Mid Day, Anand Gandhi shared importance of colour system while shooting horror genre. He said colour systems are essential to any narrative but it is an often-misunderstood science. He furr added that our minds have evolved to make specific relationships with colour, patterns, textures, and contrasts.

Sharing an example on this evolution, Anand said, this ability saved our lives in past by being able to spot leopards hidden in grass. Elaborating on his instance, Anand Gandhi stated that human emotion to make specific relationships with colour, patterns, textures, and contrasts, doesn't always need black spots in yellow grass to be triggered. He said same emotion can also be triggered by a misplaced pink blush on a child's smiling face while witnessing a beautiful bluebird bleeding and fluttering to its death. 

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Concluding his point about colour system in horror films, Anand Gandhi said that horror can be created by pink, blue, and brightly saturated colours too. He added that horror is created by meaning-making parts of brains and hence is driven by context. Talking about film, creator said that Tumbbad is an allegory for horror of patriarchal power that centres on a Sarkar run by a toxic mix of consumerism ( foreign goods), greed ( gold), and intoxication ( opium). 

Tumbbad is also co-directed by Adesh Prasad. film is penned by Mitesh Shah, Adesh Prasad, Rahi Barve, and Anand Gandhi. Tumbbad is bankrolled by Sohum Shah, Aanand L. Rai, Mukesh Shah and Amita Shah. It follows story of lead character, who sets out in search of a hidden treasure in 20th century British India vill of Tumbbad, Maharashtra.

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