However, Farhan Akhtar directed Dil Chahta Hai (2001) has a very distinct colors usage. There have been very less Indian films that have been using colors effectively.

It is considered to be the color of perfection. WHITE is associated with light, goodness, innocence, purity, and virginity.ItРІР‚в„ўs associated with joy, happiness, intellect, and energy. RED is the color of fire and blood, so it is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love.Dark green is also commonly associated with money. Green has strong emotional correspondence with safety. It symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility.

It symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven. It is often associated with depth and stability. The individual colors have the following characteristics (Source: ): Robert Plutchik created a wheel of emotions to illustrate different emotions with different color, which are used in visual storytelling.Р”Р‡igure 1: (a) Types of Colors (2) PlutchikРІР‚в„ўs wheel of emotions (source: ) The combination of these primary and secondary colors make tertiary colors. There are three basic colors called primary colors that are the red blue and yellow combining of these primary colors makes secondary colors that are Orange purple and green. Although this does depend on the community or race to which one belongs. We are emotionally affected by certain colors in a certain way. Only very established and great filmmakers use colors to the maximum capability and for giving the best emotional experience to the audience. Most of this visual path is covered in cinematography i.e., the frame composition, camera angles, and the camera movements.Р”В«ut there is one important aspect of this visual communication tool that most of the filmmakers donРІР‚в„ўt give much importance to. The visual part does constitute almost half of the film. Cinema is storytelling through an audio visual medium. When we talk of the technical aspects of the filmmaking process, by default we only deal with images and sound.

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