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Bijukumar Damodaran

Bijukumar Damodaran

Directing

Biography

Bijukumar Damodaran, known mononymously as Dr Biju, is one of India’s most acclaimed voices in contemporary world cinema. A homoeopathic doctor by qualification and a filmmaker by passion, Dr Biju has carved a distinct space in Malayalam cinema with socially relevant narratives and a unique cinematic language.

Known For

Veettilekulla Vazhi
7.2

A doctor, after the death of a terrorist’s wife, sets out to reunite her young son with his estranged father. His journey across India becomes one of compassion, redemption, and the search for humanity amid violence.

Veettilekulla Vazhi

2011
Akashathinte Niram
4.5

A burglar, in a bid to rob an old man, gets stranded on an island with a little boy, a beautiful deaf-mute girl and a man with a stutter. Marooned, he is now forced to confront living with nature.

Akashathinte Niram

2012
Painting Life
N/A

A Bollywood filmmaker and his crew gets stranded in a remote Himalayan village due to torrential downpours. How the intense experiences under siege, affect the filmmaker's thoughts and priorities forms the central theme of the film.

Painting Life

2018
Saira
7.0

Saira is a 2005 Indian film starring Navya Nair and Nedumudi Venu. The film marks the directorial debut of Dr. Biju. It was the opening in the Tous Les Cinemas du Monde (World Cinema) section of 2007 Cannes Film Festival.[1][2] It also participated in 21 other international film festivals. It was also selected at the Indian Panorama 2006.

Saira

2005
Veyilmarangal
6.0

After a village in Kerala is flooded, A scheduled caste family which doesn't get any support from government migrates to Himachal Pradesh in search of job & struggles to adapt in a totally new environment conditions.

Veyilmarangal

2020
Adrishya Jalakangal
5.2

‘Adrishya Jalakangal’ is said to be an unabashed depiction of what war and its consequences truly look like. “Adrishya Jalakangal is an attempt to look at the social menace of war from a common man’s point of view and be a strong artistic signature against war

Adrishya Jalakangal

2023
Sound of Silence
N/A

Set in a beautiful Himalayan valley, a boy, who is unable to speak and loses his mother at birth, faces hardships when his father is imprisoned. He develops an unlikely bond with an elderly Buddhist monk who helps him relieve his pain.

Sound of Silence

2017
Names Unknown
7.8

Film tells the story of marginalized people in Kerala through the life of a father who working as a temporary cleaner and his Eight year old son.

Names Unknown

2015
Valiya Chirakulla Pakshikal
6.5

Docu-fiction about the harmful effects caused by the unethical use of the pesticide Endosulfan in the plantations of Kasaragode district of Kerala.

Valiya Chirakulla Pakshikal

2015
Kaadu Pookkunna Neram
N/A

A special battalion of police is deployed by the government to do away with Maoist menace (A banned Left organization) in a tribal village near forest. The police forcibly occupy a tribal primary school for their camp. One day, the police are on lookout for some people in the forest near the school at night. A policeman follows a person deep into the forest and nabs the person. The person arrested happens to be a woman. He tries to come out of the forest with the arrested person, but he loses his way in the wild. The woman knows the path to get out of the forest but she is not willing to show him the way. Thus, both the hunter and the hunted are stranded in the thick forest. Power, Crime, Man, Woman, the Hunter, the Hunted... all such equations change utterly and are no more what they used to be. The film has been very un-expected resemblance with Maoist hunt and killing happened last month in Kerala.

Kaadu Pookkunna Neram

2016
Papa Buka
N/A

Romila, Anand and guide Papa Buka journey through Papua New Guinea's remote villages, documenting WWII veterans' vivid memories of fighting against Japan, facing unexpected challenges along their quest.

Papa Buka

2025
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N/A

Sthalam is a journey of compassion, humanity and sacrifice and the bitter truths of life. A journey that shows the complexity of human emotions through a poetically visual narration.

The Land

2022
The Portraits
7.0

Six cinematic sketches depicting the various means by which a fascist government tries to silence its people suspected of Maoist ties. They hunt down artists, those who struggle against ecocide and mechanization, people’s counterattack against state-sponsored violence. And by imposing a new order of obedience on its people.

The Portraits

2021
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The film is about a grandfather and grandson. It examines their relationship as well as agriculture, politics, communalism and other socially relevant subjects.

House Of Orange Trees

2021