Multi -wolving artist and filmmaker Vimal Chandran’s Sadshah Muzal is a picturesque Pattambi city in Palakkad. he describes PooramS (Temple Festival) Cultural Comic is filled with colorful elements as opposition that prevent their curiosity till date. His light cold, sepia-tinted frames set in rural settings, calls a retro-futuristic spaceship, which is evident from any Hollywood effects.
Of your vision MalevolentS (a ritual dance) and other ritual figures shed blood at their interpretations of extra-sorting, as seen in the recent music video, directed by Sushin Shyam’s ‘Re’. This is Sushin’s first independent single and has been viewed more than a million times on YouTube.
“Sushin composed the song about 12 years ago, and I was to hear it at Ajay (Cinematographer Ajay Menon) House last year. On a call by Sushin Palakakad, Vimal says,” Light in your eye “was looking for ideas to imagine an English song about finding light in light.
As he determined to envisage Sushin’s vision, Vimal made the idea wider whether or who is a foreigner while searching for various forms of displacement prevalent in the present world.
Vimal Chandran | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Set ‘Ray’, set in the 90s, begins with a family moving to a new place-one of them is the boy, which changes some heads with his “unusual” blue hair. His only companion is an MP3 player. One day, he faces a foreign, a young boy. Even though he was afraid of the alien at first, he eventually became a friend and realized the equality between them. Alien’s planet was on fire, and that too, there was a family. The song ends with an alien finding a new home with foreigners.
Vimli says, “We took four days to shoot it and Sushin was given scenes. He was transferred by it and he decided to re -work his song. He decided to do the song in Malayalam and Vinayak Sasikumar wrote the song.” “Each of us made a distinct explanation for the song. And the story provided it with a surface level structure. It was a Vinayak who was brought into one of the lines in the idea of how a foreign sand particle becomes a pearl inside a oyster.”
Vimal Chandran during the shooting of ‘Re’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
the alien
Vimal examines the idea of “others” through this work and how people are isolated between us. “In a sequence, the father is reading an article in a magazine, in which there is a cover about the immigrant crisis in the 90s. If you look at human history, everyone came from elsewhere. I wanted to show that people could come in co -existence.”
Still from ‘Ray’. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The appearance of alien in music video and aesthetics can be detected back in 2021, when Vimal was set in a digital art series, folk skills, Palakkad. Initially, he struggled to integrate a foreigner into a setting, but later included the native cultural effects in the character, making it easier.
“They are mostly inspired by their bright red color from South Asian culture. Their dress shares similarities with a kimono, A Theyam Or the dress of the monk. He made 20 pictures in this series and used him in creative films and brand collaboration.
“It was difficult to develop the alien for the video, as it is present throughout the song. We used prosthetics on our face during shooting. We had to change the alien’s face to remove that human look.
Still from ‘Ray’. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Early days
Vimal began painting as his medium with water color at the age of three. Vimal, who worked as a software engineer in Bengaluru, says, “My father was deeply interested in painting, even though he was a mathematics teacher. He was my first guru.”
He was at Forest College at Photoshop, when he was the editor of the college magazine. Since he could not take the risk of hiring a software specialist to design the magazine, he taught himself how to use software.
Travel by Vimal Chandran | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Once he started working, Vimal invested his salary in a camera and came into photography, which later evolved into cinematography. He started with the shooting of the short video. In 2013, he resigned from his job and became a full -time artist. He worked in 2021 on several brand cooperations, including a campaign with Lamborghini, which used the effects of his folk SCIFI series, which have rituals such as such as rituals. Puthan, black And so on.
Vimal says, “Growing up, I live here and experience all these things. After the epidemic, I took a part. PooramAnd the whole atmosphere felt like a science-fi festival for me, which was a perspective that I never tried to find. And as an artist, I got a chance to see these ideas back and again. ,
Published – July 12, 2025 05:00 pm IST
