Papilio Buddha Synopsis:
Year: 2013
Duration: 1 h 48 min
Genre: Drama
Director: Jayan Cherian
Writer: Jayan Cherian, Jayan Cherian
Cast: Kallen Pokkudan, Saritha, Prakash Bare, David Briggs
A band of displaced untouchables in Western Ghats of India embrace Buddhism in order to escape from caste oppression. Papilio Buddha explores the life of a group of displaced Dalits in the Western Ghats of India and probes the new identity politics based on Ambedkarism, gaining momentum among the Dalits in the region, in the milieu of an ongoing land struggle.