Papilio Buddha (2013)

Directors

Jayan Cherian

Cast

Kallen Pokkudan, Saritha Sunil, David Briggs

The story

The film unfolds in a fictional space, in a Dalit settlement called Meppara. It explores the life of a group of displaced Dalits in the Western Ghats of India and probes the new identity politics based on Ambedkarism, gaining momentum among the Dalits in the region, in the milieu of an ongoing land struggle. A band of displaced untouchables in the Western Ghats of India embraces Buddhism to escape oppression.

Genres

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