Casting : Richie Kapoor, Devraj Arumugam, Suganya Shanmugam, Yuvikha Rajendran, Aria Selvaraj
Directed By : Hemnath Narayanan
Music By : Sound Designer: Kewyn Frederick
Produced By : SPK Pictures Private Limited in Association with Stand Alone Pictures International – Prabakaran
It is said that there are seven Kanni deities in the forest adjacent to a village in the Javathumalai area of Thiruvannamalai district, and they bathe in the pond there on the full moon day, and the spirit of the witch there prevents the worship of the Kanni deities from being performed every year. The villagers say that the witch who sacrificed children is wandering in the forest in a supernatural way, and that is why those who go into that forest never return.
A team of four people, including a village woman who guides them, goes to the places where such stories are told to investigate whether it is true and makes a documentary about it. Was there a witch’s presence there as the locals said? What happened to the five people who went into the forest to find out the truth? ‘Marmar’ tells the story in a different horror genre.
The film, which has the distinction of being the first Tamil horror film to be shot using ‘found footage’, has a storyline and the way the horror scenes are handled is so close to reality that the entire film is very scary.
Richie Kapoor, Devraj Arumugam, Sukanya Shanmugam, Yuvika Rajendran, and Ariya Selvaraj have all acted realistically. In the scenes where they are trapped in a forest and are talking in fear, they have expressed their fear to the point of making the audience tremble.
Cinematographer Jason Williams, despite shooting the scenes at night in very low light, has shot the scenes with great quality. In particular, the scenes recorded on camera have been presented in a way that is not too distracting to the eye, conveying the fear within the screen to the audience.
Sound designer Kevin Frederick has worked so neatly that there is no sense of the composer being absent. He has accurately recorded the sounds heard during the day and night in the deserted forest area, and he makes the heart tremble with the supernatural sounds that come in the middle.
Unlike conventional horror films, editor Rohit, who has edited the scenes to make the film travel with a kind of tension and watch them with fear, would have had a different horror film experience if he had shortened the length of the scenes and reduced the length of the film.
Hemnath Narayanan, who has written and directed, has tried to give a different horror film technically, through storytelling and visual systems. Although he has succeeded in his efforts, the length of the film stands as a stumbling block in many places.
From the beginning to the end of the film, the dark screen keeps the audience on a journey with the fear of “what will happen from which side…” Director Hemnath Narayanan keeps all the scenes long, which makes the audience a little bored. If this shortcoming is addressed, the film will definitely give a different horror experience.
