• Angel Tess Cherian

Abstract: This paper is an attempt to place the films by director Lijo Jose Pellissery, an award winning Malayalam director, within the framework of the carnivalesque mode put forward by Mikhail Bakhtin. The films selected for analysis are: Amen (2013), Double Barrel (2015), Angamaly Diaries (2017), Ee.Ma.Yau (2018) and Jallikkattu (2019), written by P.S.Rafeeque, Lijo Jose Pellissery, Chemban Vinod Jose, P. F. Mathews and S. Hareesh repectively. Despite being obviously satiric, the films focus on the lives of the downtrodden and make use of a Christian landscape. The spatial arrangement of the scenes, frequent subversion of the clergy, linguistic nuances such as profanity and blasphemy, dualities, parody, violence such as animal slaughter and emphasis on physiological activities are vital to Pellissery’s cinematic world. As everything is defamiliarized, logic and rationality vanishes and people are driven by their primordial instincts.

Carnivalisation, Public Space, Eccentricity, Parody, Humour

"Carnivalising the Cinema - Exploring Select Films by Lijo Jose Pellisserry", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 10, page no.f79-f83, October-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2110512.pdf

"Carnivalising the Cinema - Exploring Select Films by Lijo Jose Pellisserry", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 10, page no. ppf79-f83, October-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2110512.pdf