MISE EN SCENE

ANALYSIS
PRIYANSH JAIN
BMM III
FILMAKIMG
Dept. Cinematography

Anurag Kashyap
 Director Anurag Kashyap

Producers Anurag Kashyap, Vikas Bahl,

Vikramaditya Motwane, Madhu Mantena

Writers Anurag Kashyap, Vasan Bala

CAST
Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vicky Kaushal
& Sobhita Dhulipala, Amruta Subhash

CREW Music Ram Sampath

Cinematographer Jay Oza

Editor Aarti Bajaj

Release Date 24 June 2016

SYNOPSIS The film is inspired by the notorious serial killer Raman
Raghav, who operated in Mumbai during the late 1960s, but it
essentially is not a film about him.
The film’s screenplay is divided into 8 chapters. Each chapter in
the film, fills the various details in the lives of the characters,
establishing the causality of an action in the movie. The film
splits Raman and Raghav as two different characters, whose
journeys complement each other.
Raman (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is portrayal of an emotionless
serial killer, who goes about his business quite nonchalantly.
But there is more to him than that, he has a perception of
Raghav (Vicky Kaushal) in his own twisted head and most of
his actions in the movie are guided by the same. Raghav is
again not a typical angry young cop & he is a cokehead from
childhood, he has too many issues of his own and by the end of
the movie he is more of a character in black than Raman. He
has deep running flaws but chooses to deal with them in his
own way.
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SETTING & PROPS

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 SETTING
The film is mostly shot in the slums of Mumbai to bring the
extremely realistic feel to which of course Anurag Kashyap
is know for. As the Raman doesn’t have a proper home to
live & before meeting his sister he survives by eating rats.
He used to kill people on the streets inspired by the Raman
of 1960’s.The sister of Raman lives in a small apartment in
the humble dwellings of the city, but it soon becomes a
nest for the notoriety of the crime that is to follow (1).
Some scenes revolves around Simmy’s (Shobita) house,
Raghav’s girlfriend; where is later killed by Raghav himself in
her own house; he fulfills his inner fetish of crimes and
murders. The fact that there are murders that is pretty
ordinary, considering the fact that its pretty easy in real life
also, that a murder will happen in places where people will
suspect last.
PROPS
In the beginning of the movie we see Raman killing a man
with a hammer & stone, straight away after that he tries to
kill a woman. Where as Raghav in anger & loosing control
because of the drugs he points out his gun to the
girlfriend. The most active prop in the movie is rod from
which he stabbed his Sister’s family.
Most interesting prop I found are the God’s photo,
wherever he saw them, he used to start talking with them
& later on when he was asked about why he killed people,
he said God instructed him to do so (2). He considers
himself, Yamaraaj ka doot. ( Messenger to the lord of
death)
(1)
After Raman arrived, the place becomes
Brutal and full of agony.

Raman talk with a photo of god & sharing

(2) his pain, after the Police bet him & locked
him up in an abandoned room.

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COSTUMES & MAKEUP

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Overall all the characters in the movie wears daily life costumes, how we generally see people in real life according to their social class.

Lakshmi, Raman’s Lakshmi’s husband Simmy’s maid Simmy who lives

Sister is a household Is a Xerox shop Who lives in a chawl a high class life & usually
women of a lower Owner. (slum) wears clothes which are
class family. fusion of Indian and western
attire.
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• Raman as a homeless person can be seen in simple shirt, pant & pairing
a chappal in the beginning, to establish his character.
• Once in a movie he hides himself in a sewer & can be seen covered up
with sewer water & waste material.
• After he stole money from her sister he buys himself a new pair of
clothes, old style retro look & surrenders himself to police to meet his
soulmate Raghav.
• He has scar on his head, that may have caused maybe in his past due to
some incident & he takes his sister’s earings too maybe because he liked
them or to sell them & get some money, he wears a lens too in his eyes
as a part of makeup to make his eyes looks more killer.
• In the beginning Raghav is Clean Shaved and in
police’s attire.
• And in rest of the movie, he is in casuals &
with a slightly grown beard.
• He had glasses on most of the time, because
of the drug Addiction he has caused his to
be red & bloodshot.
• Due to Sleepless night they look swelled up.
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LIGHTING

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 Major part of the movie has used available light.
Even in indoors to give a realistic feeling, if more
lights were added in indoor scene it may have lost
the look & the aesthetics can’t be recreated of it & it
may have looked made up.

I observed that the walls were lit, not the actors.

Maybe to give a feel of what cramped spaces people
in & also to give the feel to the audience the mind-set of
the characters, their habits & mannerisms.

The colours were pop through out the movie. The lighting
Design was enough to bring, drama, grunge & agony
to the audience

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STAGING OF ACTORS

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 This is one brilliant scene from the movie that describes the staging of actors so well.

1. In the first shot, family thinks that Raman went away & Lakshmi started crying as she felt free from her psychic brother.
2. In very next shot there is a knock on the door & Raman comes and hits Lakshmi’s husband with Metal Rod on forehead & left him injured.
3. Lakshmi now helpless, can only cry & scream.
4. He kept their child hostage & tied him to chair, later on he watched his mother & father been killed by his psychic uncle.
5. Raman is now in kitchen and have Lakshmi with him, he had his eyes on the son and husband & situation under his control
6. Lakshmi’s husband is argumentative, Raman goes to him & talks with him, later on he first kills Lakshmi, then his husband in front of their son
& their son, very ruthlessly.

The scene, simply because of the performances by the actors, stands out in the entire film.

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 SOUND

The sound played an important role to keep this movie realistic & keeping the viewer glued to the movie.
There are some nice touches as when the romantic music wells as Raman explains to Raghav that he is
his soul mate. It’s a twisted but seemingly genuine love at first sight. When Raman describes his thinking
there are often sound effects like rain, or static, that make it seem like a genuine recollection but also
that his imagination is his reality. The ambient noise are recorded so well that they connect us with
he noisy Mumbai & the slums. The songs in the movie are not necessary but they give us a chance to
look into the characters inner state.

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CINEMATOGRAPHY

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 Almost all the shots in the movie are hand held.
And it gives us an idea of Guerrilla type of filmmaking,
low budgets, real locations simple props. It was meant
for the film to be looking realistic
Almost all the shots are taken in Natural light & as well
as the chawls seen. The Aperture is large open through-
out almost all the shots in the movie.

I felt that Camera also became a character of the film &

Brought the same fear, energy & emotions what
Actors were going through. There were lots of Extreme
Closeups shots in the movie which brings us near to the
Character.

The colours were pop through out the movie. The tone was
Very vibrant . The real location gave a life to the camera
& we felt the environment around us

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Thank you.