Bramayugam

“The Age of Madness.”

Thevan (Arjun Ashokan) is a folk singer in 17th-century Kerala, a man with a voice and nothing else, who stumbles on a mansion that seems to have no one in it. Inside he finds a cook who gives little away and a master, Kodumon Potti (Mammootty), whose welcome comes with a weight he can't name. Rahul Sadasivan films the mansion in black and white, and Thevan stands in its doorway.