• Prof. O. Alisha

Psychoanalytic criticism adopts the method reading and interpreting the literary work by Sigmund Freud’s indication with dreams, unconscious desires and anxieties. Tamil Cinema had a history of nine decades from its first movie Kalidas (1931). The past movies did not have any notable Dalit films but the movies with the higher caste pride, egotism and its arrogance towards lower caste. In the beginning of 21st century, a new arena is created by few film makers like Pa. Ranjith expressed the agony of being a “Dalit” in the society. Mari Selvaraj, a well-known writer whose debut film in 2018 Pariyerum Perumal (Horse Laden Deity) portrayed the struggle of a Dalit student in the casteism rooted society. The intermediate caste people next to Brahmins, considered them as chivalry or warrior caste known for bravery and discriminated the lower caste as untouchables and low working caste. The movie Pariyerum Perumal deviated from other Tamil films which rejected the fierceness to take revenge on upper caste people and forced on the empowerment. The movie is known for the realistic approach of the situation without exaggeration. The paper focuses on the psychoanalytic approach to the unheard voices of Dalits in the chosen movie which is not voiceless but deliberately silenced or preferably unheard in the Grand Narratives of Tamil Cinema for the past decades.

Anti-Casteism, Desires, Anxieties, Discrimination, Education, Honour Killing

"Unheard Voices: A Study of Psychoanalysis in the Tamil Film Pariyerum Perumal", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.23-26, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAF06007.pdf

"Unheard Voices: A Study of Psychoanalysis in the Tamil Film Pariyerum Perumal", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp23-26, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAF06007.pdf