853021
853021

Performing the Goddess

1999-07-30
6
bn 44m
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

Editor

Naveen Kishore

Cinematography

Pushan Kripalani

Researcher

Anjum Katyal

Researcher

Naveen Kishore

Editor

Rajib Aditya

Editor

Pushan Kripalani

theatre history queer

Status

Released

Countries

  • India

Companies

  • The Seagull Foundation for the Arts