Cinematography through the Bottom of the City: A Scrutiny of Urban Life in Mysskin’s Cinema

Abstract

Mysskin is a blessed director who has turned into a fundamental piece of Tamil film with a set of unique quality movies. He could fulfil the standard groups of onlookers and film critics in the meantime with his distinctive style of filmmaking. Shanmugha Raja is the real name and he had chosen his name as Mysskin inspired by 'Myshkin', the protagonist in Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot. He is a hardcore fan of renowned Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, so works by Mysskin is rich in its influence of Dostoevsky books. This research intended to examine the portrayal of urban life in Mysskin films which is impacted by Dostoevsky. This paper looks at one of a kind of Endeavour by Mysskin to look through the identity of urban middle and lower class community in his acclaimed spine-chiller films Onaayum Aattukkuttiyum and Pisasu.