Papilio Buddha

IMDb link: 2355771
IMDb rating: 7.3 (155 votes)
Genres: Drama
Director: Jayan Cherian
Cast: Prakash Bare, Saritha, Kallen Pokkudan, Saritha, David Briggs and others

Release date: 15 Mar 2013
Release year: 2013
Runtime: 108 minutes
Country: India, United States
Keywords: caste oppression, buddhism, untouchable, hindu, kerala india, lepidopterist, male frontal nudity, male nudity, male rear nudity

Plot:

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.

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