Indian Cinema and the Bahujan Spectatorship - Jyoti Nisha - Economic and Political Weekly

Bahujan spectatorship relates to an oppositional gaze and a political strategy of Bahujans to
reject the Brahminical representation of caste and marginalised communities in Indian
cinema. It is also an inverted methodology to document a different sociopolitical Bahujan
experience of consuming popular cinema.
Jyoti Nisha (jyotinisha13@gmail.com) is a writer, director, and producer. She directed wellknown documentary film "B R Ambedkar—Now and Then."