Life of An Outcast

About the film

Caste discrimination and oppression is a major issue in India. Life Of An Outcast sensitively portrays the oppression of a Dalit family through three generations. The film tells the story of the protagonist who was thrown out of the village as his bride refuses to sleep with the landlord on their wedding night.

Their struggle does not end here. His son is denied English classes in the school because of being a Dalit. When this son grows up and becomes a Mathematics teacher, the upper caste villagers couldn't digest this and got him arrested in the name of hurting their religious sentiments. The protagonist struggles to earn a sum of money to get his son bailed out as the movie progresses.

The film ends on the most prominent question surrounding the issue of caste and its vicious cycle in which most of the Dalit families today find themselves stuck.