Performing the Goddess
1999•44m•6.0•Released
Documentary
"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
Director
Naveen Kishore
Languages
Bengali
Studio
The Seagull Foundation for the Arts
Cast
Chapal Bhaduri
Self
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