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‘Mayasabha’ review: Atmospheric visuals trump a convoluted tale
['Nandini Ramnath']
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Rahi Barve’s new movie shares with his brilliant folk horror film its theme of the corrupting nature of treasure and immersive visuals, but not the sustained feeling of dread and uncanniness.
A slave to his past, the barely sane Parmeshwar lurches from room to room, spraying pesticide all around.
Cinematographer Kuldeep Mamanai, often shooting through thickets of fog, dunks his frames in the shades of the yellow metal that Zeenat and Ravrana are chasing.
Production designer Preetam Rai’s magnificently atmospheric, expressionist set has the allegorical qualities that the script seeks to achieve.
Among the quartet of actors, Mohammad Samad is the most memorable as a teenager devoted to his eccentric and stultifying father.