• Manidip Chakraborty

Many independent film makers in India have opted for the OTT platform to launch their dystopian, anti-establishment narratives, which would otherwise have never seen the daylight. As opposed to the mainstream movies, these dystopian stories exhibit the bold employment of the theories of Alienation Effect and Power-and-Discipline which would allow the viewers to better analyze the latent political allegory. The spatial-temporal detachment still manages to critique the contemporary government policies in an oblique way. The curious balancing of the familiar with the unfamiliar generates an element of terror, as to be found in works such as Ghoul, Leila and Ghost Stories. The trope of the dystopian lends these apparently subversive narratives an aesthetic excellence so that they can go beyond the trajectory of mere political agenda.

OTT, political, dystopian, defamiliarization, alienation, surveillance, power

"UN-KNOWING THE KNOWN: THE SUBVERSIVE DYSTOPIAN NARRATIVE AND THE OTT PLATFORM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 2, page no.d730-d733, February-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2202394.pdf

"UN-KNOWING THE KNOWN: THE SUBVERSIVE DYSTOPIAN NARRATIVE AND THE OTT PLATFORM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 2, page no. ppd730-d733, February-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2202394.pdf