Performing the Goddess

44m

"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

Cast

Chapal Bhaduri

Self

Crew

Naveen Kishore

Director, Editor, Researcher

Rajib Aditya

Editor

Pushan Kripalani

Editor, Cinematography

Anjum Katyal

Researcher

Performing the Goddess

Cast

Crew

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