Rediscovering Vaanam: How a contemporary festival in Tamil Nadu celebrates Dalit History Month

For 4 Aprils now, arsenic Chennai’s summertime breeze sets in, Prasad Lab has brimmed with movie enthusiasts waiting to ticker what the PK Rosy Film Festival has to offer. The slate, afloat of satellite cinema peculiarly fitting the absorption genre, has not conscionable made for compelling viewing. It has ensured abstraction for a genuine effort astatine furthering intelligence conversation, peculiarly astir governmental and marginalised movements.

Over the years, this festival, portion of Neelam Cultural Centre’s Vaanam, a Dalit History Month solemnisation commemorating BR Ambedkar, has seen cinephiles packing crowds, and adjacent sitting connected the level of cinema halls to ticker what the festival has to offer.