CinemaOSMovie · 1999 · 0h 44m

Performing the Goddess

60%(1)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

Directed byNaveen Kishore

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 44m
Language
BN
Released
July 30, 1999
Studios
The Seagull Foundation for the Arts

Featuring

Cast & crew

1 credited
Starring

Chapal Bhaduri

Self

Creative team
Directed by
Naveen Kishore

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