The lights and colours in Madha

Madha, the psychological

thriller

that released just two days before the lockdown was announced has been lauded for its use of experimental

lighting

in the film. The Srividya Basawa-directorial traces the journey of a proof-reader Nisha (Trisha Mukherjee) who falls for a cinematographer called Arjun (

Rahul Venkat

) without being aware of his devious plans for her. We talk to Abhiraj Nair, the DOP of the film who tells us more about it. “

Madha

started as an indie project but morphed into a feature film. This transition worked well for us because we got a bigger cast and more resources to set up lighting and sound to create the eerie mood that we aimed for this thriller to have,” he said and went on to detail the importance of light and colour in the film. He revealed, “All the characters had a colour attributed to them based on their personality. While we could have done this with visual effects during post production we chose to use lights to create the aura around each character. This was a major factor in creating the thrilling ambience that we wanted our audience to be sucked in by. I hope we succeeded,” he signed off.