At Filmi Ladies, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins start a new series! “This is the first episode in a new series about films we associate with particular colors. Black may be the most complicated color, evoking traits from elegance and edge to sadness, anger, mourning, and destructiveness. For a color that can be so striking, it often screams ”don’t look too closely.’

Neither of us could resist choosing a black and white film, but that’s where the similarities end: Satyajit Ray’s Nayak (Bengali, 1966), where black is cool, distant, and protective, and Bramayuagam (Malayalam, 2024), where black is unstable and unknowable.

P.S. Pitu discovered that there are two words for the color brown in Marathi – tapkiri and badami.”

Listen here.