Cinematographers keep making the mistake of using desaturated, sepia tone for period films. The idea seems to come from old black & white movies rather going for a realistic sense that colors were the same yesterday, today and will be the same tommorrow. Maybe they want to hide some glaring mistakes in the cinematography
When it comes to period films why always all the cinematographers go for desaturated, sepia tone? Weren't the world colourful then? Were the trees in pale yellow green & rocks in yellowish brown? C'mon... Only exception is Ramnath Shetty who shot "Pazhassiraja" in normal colours.
