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Tracking a culture change

In change: A grab from the documentary ‘When things fall apart’.

A group of final year B.A. mass communication and journalism students, who calls themselves Alfa, has come out with a documentary on the alienation of tribal groups from the mainstream in Wayanad. The film, When things fall apart, was released by Civic Chandran, social activist, and exhibited at Trident Arcade Auditorium in Kalpetta on Sunday. The documentary portrays the socio-cultural changes that ethnic tribes were forced to undergo after non-tribal s ections migrated to Wayanad in the first half of the last century. The group members, who are students of NSM Government College, Kalpetta, have made an earnest attempt to reveal the impact created by the visual media and modern inventions on the life of the ethnic people.

Though they have accepted the changes in the society, these have adversely affected the cultural identity they had acquired through centuries. As a result of these changes they have lost touch with their ethnical dialects, arts, music, dress, rituals and even the cultural identity.

These changes, the transformation of these rustic people from primeval to modernity, and the consequences of these changes are the main themes of the documentary.

The documentary also points out the causes of segregation of the tribal people from the mainstream. These students’ maiden venture cost Rs.43,000. They raised the amount from friends and well- wishers. The 28-minute documentary is directed by Mithu Raj. The script is by Arun A. Jose. Anumod wielded the camera.

E.M. Manoj

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