• Saljimol S Abraham

The question of identity and culture is always a significant subject in the area of postcolonial studies. Leaving one’s own land puts the person in ‘diaspora’ and brings him/her ‘hybridity’ and ‘ambiv¬alence’. In fact, ‘home’ plays a crucial function in stabil¬ity of one’s identity. The desire to return to one’s homeland and the inability to separate one’s self from the foreign land creates the unending identity conflict in an individual. This study has been tried to investigate the 2005 Malayalam film Ananthabhadram directed by Santhosh Sivan through Homi K. Bhabha’s theories of ‘hybridity’ and ‘ambivalence’ as the causes of merged- and even lost-identity in post-colonial discourse and similar ideas of other theorists. It views the protagonist of the film, Ananthan, as an individual who is in an unconscious search for a single identity, as his identity is trapped between two different cultures that are orient and oxidant. The study makes use of a qualitative method of research where it interprets Ananthan’s journey to his homeland from America as a search for self, which is lost in his western upbringing. The study lay roots in the hybrid identity of a diasporic individual which becomes the source of conflict throughout one’s life.

Ananthabhadram, Diaspora, Hybridity, Sense of home, Loss of identity

"In Search of One’s Roots: The Journey of Ananthan as the Quest for Self of a Diasporic Individual in Malayalam film Ananthabhadram", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 2, page no.1004-1009, February-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2002142.pdf

"In Search of One’s Roots: The Journey of Ananthan as the Quest for Self of a Diasporic Individual in Malayalam film Ananthabhadram", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 2, page no. pp1004-1009, February-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2002142.pdf