• SUNIL KALAI
• ROSHANI RAI

This paper explores the symbiotic relationship between human society and nature through the making and practice of digital filmic space of the three tribal based folktales of Tripura, Chethuang, Nuai and Kuchuk Kherengbar. The result of the study is the outcome of the fieldwork experience, the fieldwork encounter and fieldwork engagement in the process of making these folktales into the film. The study considers the film as an ethnographic study and looks at the oral tradition and the folktales in establishing the moral values of its folkloric and ecology and the indigenous knowledge that passed on from one generation to the other generation through the oral tradition. The oral tradition and the ecological knowledge had been restricted only till the minds of the audience and memory through the creative imagination. The present study encounters the intervention of digital technology brings democratization in indigenous based knowledge sharing while at the bringing redemption of physical realities through the process of archiving the folktales in the form of a film

Folktales, redemption of physical realities, Kwtham kothoma, Indigeneity

"KWTHAM KOTHOMA: FOLKTALES, CINEMA AND THE TRIBAL NARRATIVES FROM THE ORAL NARRATIVE TO THE DIGITAL STORY-TELLING", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 7, page no.c107-c115, July-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2407215.pdf

"KWTHAM KOTHOMA: FOLKTALES, CINEMA AND THE TRIBAL NARRATIVES FROM THE ORAL NARRATIVE TO THE DIGITAL STORY-TELLING", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 7, page no. ppc107-c115, July-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2407215.pdf