Storytelling in the black-and-white medium is an aesthetic choice that allows artists, photographers, and filmmakers to play with unusual frames and stark contrasts to create intense experiences.

That is the haunting black-and-white charcoal-style artwork in the title poster of Rahul Sadasivan’s Mammootty-starrer Bramayugam. Arun Ajikumar, the creative head of Aesthetic Kunjamma.