Bijukumar Damodaran

Directing

Bijukumar Damodaran

Born

1971-05-31 (55)

Place of birth

Kudassanad, Kerala

Known for

Directing

Credits

28 titles

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

Behind the camera

Papa Buka poster
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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

Papa Buka poster
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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

The Portraits poster
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

The Portraits poster
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

Veettilekulla Vazhi poster
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

Veettilekulla Vazhi poster
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

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NR

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

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NR

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

Valiya Chirakulla Pakshikal poster
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

Valiya Chirakulla Pakshikal poster
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

Akashathinte Niram poster
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

Akashathinte Niram poster
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

Kaadu Pookkunna Neram poster
4.0

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

Kaadu Pookkunna Neram poster
4.0

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

Saira poster
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 poster
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

Veyilmarangal poster
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

Names Unknown poster
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

Names Unknown poster
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

Sound of Silence poster
NR

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

Sound of Silence poster
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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

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In the 1930s, Taula Lovovoa, one of the first indigenous Seventh-day Adventist missionaries from Mussau Island, experiences transformation and reconciliation on an island that Australian colonial reports of the era brand the 'Devil’s Paradise' and forecast would cease to exist within two decades.

Mussau: The First Song

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In the 1930s, Taula Lovovoa, one of the first indigenous Seventh-day Adventist missionaries from Mussau Island, experiences transformation and reconciliation on an island that Australian colonial reports of the era brand the 'Devil’s Paradise' and forecast would cease to exist within two decades.

Mussau: The First Song

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Adrishya Jalakangal poster
5.5

‘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

Adrishya Jalakangal poster
5.5

‘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

Painting Life poster
NR

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

Painting Life poster
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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

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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