Aesthetics/Style
Lord Shiva and Parvati become one soul and body, known as Ardhanarishvara. Shiva is blue and his Parvati is expressed in oranges and reds with her floral earring and nose ring. Sonu Chopra paints with oils and expresses their union. "I want to celebrate the trust and dedication a couple has with one another," she says. "Only with complete trust and honesty shall a man and woman become one." We thought that this painting showed an interesting irony towards this film. It shows the duality of someone and their counterpart as well as the duality of one’s soul. We thought it was an intriguing inspiration because of its heterosexual nature. If we were Suraj we would grapple with this image and it’s heterosexual nature.
We plan to consistently use the blues to represent Suraj life with his roles as husband, father, and heterosexual man. We want this role of his to be passive, calm, almost melancholy to show his isolation in the cold world that he feels he is in. In contrast to the blues, there will be punches of oranges and reds in his passions. When he is interacting with his religion he feels passion for his beliefs, there are reds at the temple, oranges in symbols of his faith. When he is attempting to fix or invest in his marriage, he brings orange flowers. These colors also appear when his exotic feeling temptations arise, and finally when his love and anger consumes him in fire. He finally gains power in his violence towards himself and the reds and oranges are the focal point in his end.
A motif in Suraj’s story is fire. Blue is the hottest part of the flame and orange is it’s release. Throughout the story Suraj is gravitated to flames, subtle yet showing his eventual surrender to this violent destruction. We will have Suraj hiding the fact that he is a smoker from his family as well, showing that he continuously gravitates to fire as an escape.
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At the gas station the split between worlds is very important. We plan to use lighting with gels to represent specifically on his face his battle between his world and himself. His two worlds are colliding and it is in this moment that he believes he has the full answer, he has to choose. He encounters a homosexual couples interaction and slowly the orange begins to take over his face throughout the scene. This ultimately will lead the film into almost all oranges, representing his passion taking over.
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