Give me red .....

Gulaal made it 3 in a month for me from the Anurag Kashyap drama factory.
Needless to mention that, it added to my delight of watching creatvely crafted cinematic work.

However, one common thread of his movies has stuck with me.

His fascination for the colour RED !!
In his latest flick, characters have red gulaal on their faces.
In DEV D, RED fills the background in the movie, the posters, the trailers, et al.
Ditto for Black Friday and No Smoking.

What does this bright RED signify? What does he want to convey?

Probably, the angst of the central charcters, or their violent pangs.
Quite a logical conclusion, given the background of the movies.

I feel it is more than the angst or the pangs and extends beyond the background.
I feel it is the reflection of one's mind. A divided, disturbed mind or a revolutionary, bright mind. I am quite confused with the right choice.

The confusion stems from the multiple connotations that this bright RED has.

It can mean fire, or revolution, or passion, or sin, or a warning and the list continues.

His movies are a bit of everything RED means or can mean.
His characters are a bit sinful, given to vices like ganjaa. They are passioante and bright. They are different from the usual, making them in essence revolutionary.
Most of them are a warning beacuse, in a way they convey the human fallacies.
More often than not, one would also attribute a morbid aspect to this colour, failing to realise nothing more than this signifies LIFE.

What intrigues me most is they are unsettling by nature and yet very appealing.
They leave a lasting impression on you and make you think.

In fact, the ubiquitous RED of Mr. Kashyap, is a leading indicator of the versatile and varied nature of his movie making. This choice of this multidimensional colour speaks volumes of the efficacy and the implicit meaning of this brilliant movie-making style, a tuly intellectual one.

After constant mulling over this colour and its choice, I have only one thing to tell this brilliant movie master, 'Give me more, give me RED'.

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