• Sandra Lis Sebastian

Abstract This paper analyses the Malayalam movie, Ustad Hotel, directed by Anwar Rasheed, using the conceptual frameworks of Pierre Bourdieu in its relation to Culture Studies. The film highlights the young protagonist’s bred-in-the-bone desire to become an established Chef and his grandfather not only gives him many practical lessons of cooking but also offers him an insight regarding the true purpose behind this profession. A romantic comedy, the movie has been noted for the special attention it gives to food cuisine and its nuances peculiar in the land of Calicut. But this paper considers the film as privileging with Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital, analysing those cultural productions that give us social mobility. The three different forms of the cultural capital – institutionalised, objectified and embodied – are also identified in relation with the different characters and events in the film. Thus he makes a bridge between culture and society which renders the theoretical relevance of the concepts in culture studies. Finally, with Bourdieu’s concept of “habitus” this paper studies the deep-seated skills, experiences and personality of the hero as well as his grandfather and the ending episodes of the film which reflects the complete transformation of the hero.

Keywords: Pierre Bourdieu, Culture Capital, Habitus, Social Mobility, Food, Calicut.

"Hierarchisation of Culture: Experimenting Bourdieu's Cultural Capital in Ustad Hotel", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.274-277, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902B37.pdf

"Hierarchisation of Culture: Experimenting Bourdieu's Cultural Capital in Ustad Hotel", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp274-277, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902B37.pdf