KG Balasubramani’s ‘Black’, with Jiiva and Priya Bhavani Shankar, is a pretty good sci-fi thriller
The success of the film is that it grips you and doesn’t let you go. There’s no horror or terror. But there’s suspense. The rest of this review may contain spoilers…
Black opens in the past. There’s a broken love triangle, with one of the people involved still holding a grudge. There’s a car travelling through a night lit by a huge moon. There’s a statue of some kind of Christian god or angel. There are flickering lights. And most importantly, there is a passage of darkness. It’s not a tunnel, exactly. It looks as though the street lights went out in just one section of the road, because on either end of this passage, there’s light. KG Balasubramani’s debut feature is high on atmosphere. Yes, there is a silly, time-wasting hero-heroine song, with Jiiva and Priya Bhavani Shankar in the present day. Yes, there’s a club scene that could have been handled better, given that it is basically a red herring. But mostly, this is a film that is spot on in terms of camerawork and colour scheme and (for this genre) a refreshingly subdued score by Sam CS.
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KG Balasubramani’s ‘Black’, with Jiiva and Priya Bhavani Shankar, is a pretty good sci-fi thriller
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