Indian Knowledge Systems in the Cinematic Frame: Past, Present, and Future

From philosophy to medicine, environmental ethics to spiritual traditions, Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) cover a great and varied corpus of indigenous knowledge that has enriched India's intellectual and cultural legacy for millennia. This research paper examines the depiction of IKS in Indian cinema on three time-based dimensions: past, present, and future. The research looks into how early movies represented mythological and historical epics based on IKS, how current film fuses age-old knowledge with contemporary issues, and how cinema trends in the future might expand the inclusion of IKS even more into scripts that respond to global issues. Based on qualitative content analysis of some chosen movies, this essay brings to focus the changing aspect of cinema as an influential source for maintaining, re-interpreting, and disseminating Indian Knowledge Systems. The paper wraps up by tackling the ethical concerns and issues linked to the commodification and misrepresentation of IKS in popular culture.