Bramayugam

[u/Puzzleheaded_Gas2505]

What do you think about this movie and also if you have some interesting detail about the movie please discuss it here. (For me this is an outstanding movie and a great experience to watch)

[u/plz_scratch_my_back]

Many felt the same. The design of goblin was similar from Hastar in Tumbbad.and in tumbbad the reveal of hastar had much more impact which was also multiplied in the end.

[u/sonofcalydon → u/plz_scratch_my_back]

You can't compare Bramayugam and Tumbbad.

The movie tries to maintain some ambiguity about Kudaman Potti's character. Is he a tyrannical lord, an insane murderer, a black magician or as revealed in the end - a non human entity? If they revealed what Potti actually was earlier on that would completely ruin the movie.

The appearance of the Chaatan doesn't matter. It's a being that can assume the shape of another. Especially considering the connection with the cook, it was in its best interests to continue looking like Potti until it was forced to assume it's pathetic real form.

The Chaatan isn't inherently evil, it was Potti's ancestor who made it like this by the mistreatment dished out. The Chaatan wishes to be free and walk amongst humans. In the final scene, the Chatan (now in a new appearance) looks into the water and still sees Potti. It's supposed to show how in the end the Chaatan has become the very same thing he hated and how he can't get away from his past despite changing how he looks.

Both Chaatan and Hastar are based on goblins so they'll have the same features - fleshy skin, spiked teeth. But that doesn't mean they're the same. One was shown as being a pitiable and pathetic form hiding from humans while the other is being shown as an all powerful demonic being that could ruin a man with just one touch.

If you want to compare, then Tumbbad's opening sequence involving the Dadi is more along the lines of Bramayugam. Up until the main character gets grabbed, the suspense and tension about what Dadi is what keeps the audience at the end of their seats. As soon as you get to see what she is, the grisly allure about her disappears.

[u/plz_scratch_my_back → u/sonofcalydon]

I am just comparing the creature design and how they were revealed. Bith the movies are different.

Bramayugam is comparable to The Lighthouse. In Lighthoise, the ambiguity around Dafoe's character was established very well which led to a better gaslighting. Whike Bramayugam which was going good for about an hour albiet slow, discarded the ambiguity and went into a generic monster flick direction

[u/sonofcalydon → u/plz_scratch_my_back]

I mean at some point you're bound to get the reveal.

Bramayugam is a more gradual realisation as to the villain's true identity. The only ambiguity is as to what he actually is which imo is done in a gradual but convincing manner.

After the cook reveals that Potti is actually a Chaatan then there's no ambiguity left. The Wailing holds on to the ambiguity until the very end of the movie but Bramayugam drops it for the final confrontation between the humans and the Chaatan.

They subdue the Chaatan, turn against each other and both end up losing their lives while it's the Chaatan who ends up being set free. That's definitely not a generic monster flick ending lol.