JUXTAPOSITION OF ECOCRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE MOVIE 'KADAMBAN' AND SARAH JOSEPH'S GIFT IN GREEN

Abstract [English]

Literature and Cinema are interconnected but they are also distinct in their own ways. It has long been one of the most intriguing fields of science with a profound effect on the human psyche. These are the forms of expression that can be accessed by all ages and employed as a medium to depict the social and environmental catastrophe in their works. The research paper focuses on the ecocritical consciousness in the movie 'Kadamban' and the fiction, Sarah Joseph's Gift in Green. The research article is about corporate greed and strong interests going up against a native, local population that would not leave its territory. A tribe of people who were satisfied to live in the jungle were suddenly attacked by shrewd businessmen. A city industrialist was anxious to get his hands on the large limestone dump that was recently discovered. For more money, the corporate world would do anything. It is more similar in the movie 'Kadamban' and the fiction Gift in Green. It is a unique book about the connection between individuals and the environment they live in is Gift in Green. In the novel, Young Kumaran would like to change his own native place. His plans for development, such as the construction of highways and bridges, suffocating aquatic life, driving birds and butterflies from fading mangrove forests, and allowing poisons to seep into rice fields that have provided food for hundreds of years. They were all destroying the forest in the name of capitalism, industrialism, modernism, colonialism. This article highlights how the locals overcame challenges and fought to preserve their own land through the movie, Kadamban and Sarah Joseph's Gift in Green.