• APARNA. S. ANIL

Bijukumar Damodaran, known mononymously as Dr. Biju, is an Indian Film- maker who is considered to be one of the contemporary voices in Indian cinema, who raises his voice openly against social injustice, gender in-equality, environmental problems, and speaks up for the marginalized sections of the society. This paper is a humble and un-biased attempt that focuses on the aspect of power politics portrayed in Dr. Biju’s two socially relevant movies, Perariyathavar (Names Unknown) and Kaadu Pookkunna Neram (When the woods bloom) which were acclaimed nationally as well as internationally. The two movies are interconnected in one way or the other. Reflecting the lives of the marginalized sections, including dalits and the tribal communities, both the films portray the negligence from the part of the government towards issues of the subaltern. It tells us how government, which is responsible to protect them and their lives, to an extent becomes the reason for their plights and sufferings. Perariyathavar portrays the story of a garbage collector who struggles to make a living and to bringing up his eight year old son in a city, where people like him remain ‘nameless’. The film presents the darker side of the city and the lives of those who inhabit these spaces and sans romanticism. They are a group who are very much visible- garbage collectors, migrant labourers, gypsies, street children, and street vendors- having no names. Whereas film Kaadu Pookkunna Neram, in the onset of celebration of forests, portrays of how inconsequential a policeman with a pistol is inside one, and how the real inhabitants of the forests, the tribals, should be left alone.

marginalized, dalits, tribals, maoists, hegemonic, subaltern, power-politics.

"THE GAME OF POWER POLITICS PORTRAYED IN DR.BIJU’S MOVIES PERARIYATHAVAR AND KAADU POOKKUNNA NERAM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.563-568, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902C82.pdf

"THE GAME OF POWER POLITICS PORTRAYED IN DR.BIJU’S MOVIES PERARIYATHAVAR AND KAADU POOKKUNNA NERAM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp563-568, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902C82.pdf