South Asian Cinema and Culture
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Dileesh Pothan’s Malayalam film Joji (2021) is a Macbeth-inspired psychological drama that examines complex human predicaments and relationships unfolding in a tense Christian household in rural Kottayam, Kerala. This paper critically examines the conflict between the projected image and the instinctual urges of the protagonist Joji and delineates it using Carl Jung’s conceptualization of persona and shadow. The paper makes a nuanced reading of the physical and psychological landscapes of the film while analyzing the transformation of Joji from a lazy college dropout to a conniving killer. The paper further scrutinizes the visual grammar of the film through a detailed analysis of the mise-en-scène, which facilitates and orchestrates Joji’s psychic metamorphosis on screen.
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@article{Villyalath2026Persona,
title = {Persona, Shadow, and Mise-en-Scène in Dileesh Pothan’s Joji (2021): A Jungian Analysis of Psychic Metamorphosis},
author = {Sandhya Villyalath and Shirin Shahana B V and Nandhini I},
journal = {CINEJ Cinema Journal},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.5195/cinej.2026.746},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5195/cinej.2026.746}
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