FRAMING THE MARGINS: CASTE ON THE SILVER SCREEN
Cinema is not just entertainment; it is political. From the erasure of Dalit lives to the rise of the anti-caste gaze, we explore how movies uphold or dismantle the hierarchy.
Caste and Cinema
The Problem of Transcendence of Caste in the film Vanaprastham
Anagha Rajesh
Whose Truth? The Anti-caste trajectory in Tamil Cinema
Aravind B
The Revolution Will Be Brahminized: RRR and the Reinvention of Empire
David Sathuluri
Erased from memory: How Kammas whitewashed Caste in Telugu cinema
Sri Harsha Sai Matta
Anti-Caste Cinema Against the Savarna Imagination: The Screen May Be Common, But the Eyes Are Not
Lokesh Bag
A Woman in a Man’s Story: Secondarisation of Dalit Women's Roles in Anti-Caste Tamil Cinema
Apeksha Singegol & Ektha Harthi Hiriyur
“We don’t know what you look like but we will still show what you look like:” Decoding the cinematic aesthetics of a Dalit face
Priyanshi Madhukar
Constructing selective nostalgia in Tamil cinema while ignoring the caste realities in villages
Sangeetha R
Fields of Domination: Education, Media, and Justice in Jana Gana Mana
Vimala Reddypogu
Seedling of the Caste: Subject-Object Ideologue of Shyam Benegal’s Ankur
Kaushiki Ishwar