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Papilio Buddha is a film of genre Drama directed by Jayan K. Cherian with Padmapriya

Papilio Buddha (2013)

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Genres Drama
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Papilio Buddha is a 2013 Indian feature film written and directed by Jayan K. Cherian. The film focuses on the atrocities committed against Dalits, women and the environment. It features Sreekumar, David Briggs and Saritha Sunil in the lead roles while Padmapriya, Prakash Bare and Thampy Antony play supporting roles. Kerala-based Environmentalist Kallen Pokkudan appears in another important role in the film which also cast 150 Adivasis. The film was completely shot from Wayanad in Kerala and the cinematography has been done by M J Radhakrishnan. The story deals with discrimination against landless Dalits and the politics of suppression of their struggle against the upper castes and other powerful elements locally.

Synopsis

The film unfolds in 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 Western Ghats of India embrace Buddhism in order to escape from caste oppression. The on-screen happenings are from the perspective of a youth Sankaran, a Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) dropout, whose insecurity and reticence are in stark contrast to the deep-rooted faith and conviction of his father Kandal Kariyan.

Actors

Padmapriya

(Collector)
S.P.Sreekumar

(Shankaran)
Prakash Bare

(Sp)
Saritha

(Manjusree)
Antony Thekkek

(Ramdasji)
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