Performing the Goddess

Movie·1999·0h 44m

Performing the Goddess

Country

India

Language

Bengali

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The Story

"Chapal Bhaduri, a leading lady of Bengal’s traditional folk traveling theatre-in-the-round, the Jatra, spent his life playing women. This film is an intimate biography that brings you face to face with this unique individual, sharing what it means to him to become a woman night after night, talking of the woman inside his body, of troubled sexuality, of a long partnership with his older lover, of the loneliness of living on the edges of conventional society–and showing how he metamorphoses into the goddess to perform her story." - The Bangalore International Centre

Editor

Naveen Kishore

Themes

theatre historyqueer

Production House

The Seagull Foundation for the Arts

Audience Score

60%

1 votes

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Timepass32%
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Perfection18%

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Cast

Chapal Bhaduri

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Crew

Naveen Kishore

Director, Editor

Rajib Aditya

Editor

Pushan Kripalani

Editor

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