Jornal de Comunicação de Massa e Jornalismo

Locating the Scattered Identity of Dalit Women in Adoor Gopalakrishanan Film's

Abstract

Pradeep Kopalakrishanan*

Film is one of the most prominent medium to communicate with people. This intellectual narrative medium represent the social problem and dilapidate nature of social constraint is poignant. Master filmmaker like Satyajit Ray, Shyambenagal, Giriesh kasaravalli, and Adoor Gopalakrishnan who made real kudos for Indian films in India and across the World. The nature of narrative discourses are really reflect many aspects or realities and disturbing socio political, economic and cultural sense of village to metropolitan context. They are in front of representing women identity in their narration. This study will address how Dalit women and their identity represented in Adoor Gopalakrishnan films with qualitative textual analysis of selected movies from this master filmmaker films.