ABSTRACT
The chapter deals with the issues of caste and sexuality while looking at Jayan K. Cherian’s films Papilio Buddha, Ka Bodyscapes, and Shape of the Shapeless. The primary focus of the discourse is on the peripheral voices, narratives, and desires that remain absent when it comes to the mainstream narrative. Society is divided in such a way that the ones who remain at the periphery continue to exist in the shadow. The chapter attempts to bring up the issue of caste and sexuality to observe the struggle of the Dalits who may identify as queer. The chapter addresses the issues of body, agency, and mobility. The question of censorship is also raised while dealing with the cinematic texts of Cherian. What is the reason that the tool of censorship is used to erase the voice of the marginalised sections? In an oppressive scenario, what happens to the politics of equal representation? What happens to the politics of resistance when authoritarianism becomes the norm?
