
            Parimal is born a boy, but there has always been another identity hidden within Parimal's male physical appearance. The only way out for him is to escape from his parents, his family, and his neighborhood in search of a world that did not seem so unidentifiable.In his quest, Parimal reaches a new city, Kolkata where he is welcomed by a transgender shelter. And Parimal soon becomes Puti. There, he meets Madhu and falls in love with him. As Madhu discovers more about Puti's physicality, he wonders how he could feel attracted to a woman who has a male body? Were these things even possible in reality? Will their love survive the guillotine of societal barriers?The film is a document that frames this experience of an invisible community, rarely portrayed in the arena of Indian mainstream cinema. The fabric of Ganguly's film moves beyond the binaries of a linear and complex narrative and instead brings forth a breathtaking ruthlessness that mirrors the hidden lives and traumas of the Transgender/ Hijra/ Intersex/ gender non-conforming communities.The film embodies the visceral experience of these communities battling centuries of prejudice and taboo. The community's lived realities of being caught between questions of vice and virtue, desire and rejection sustains the film's body narrative - rather precariously - avoiding a moral position - yet examining the very contours that makes taking these positions complicated.In a society that largely considers trans bodies as dustbins to dump its traumas and miscarriages of justice, the film signals a language of change that can be used to build a narrative of resistance.It is inherent in the power of cinema to precipitate universal conversations - which Kaushik Ganguly's film does.At the 65th National Film Awards the film won four Awards including, Special Jury Award (Feature Film) and National Film Award for Best Actor for Riddhi Sen.
    

The Eunuch and the Flute Player


            
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Apur Panchali

Bisorjon

A Short Story

The Elder Son

Bijoya

Cinemawala

Shankar Mudi


            Fyataroos: Flying human beings. Choktors: Black Magic sect.
Bhodi, the head of Choktars, initiates a total war against the Communist Government of West Bengal. Fyataroos join hands with Choktors. Advised by Calcuttas progenitors Dandabayas (ageless primordial talking crow) and an Indo-colonial half-breed Begum Johnson (a contemporary of Job Charnock 1630-1692 and Warren Hastings 1732-1818) erupt a historic insurrection of Fyataroos and Choktors. They jointly launch guerrilla attacks against the Government. Total chaos is unleashed in the city of Calcutta. The film dissects almost everything wrong in the city with a cinematic knife sharpened on trenchant farce and fantasy. Collective schizophrenia sets in. There is hardly anything by way of a story, but what little there is involves two groups of rebels, the lowly Choktors and the aerial Fyataroos, mobilised by the quack occultist Bhodi Sarkar to fight against the West Bengal Government. In the melee that explodes, the Choktors unearth cannons underground, the Fyataroos bomb administrative buildings and the Police HQ with brickbats, and the poor cops have no answer to the assault. And that reflects the seething rage barely underlying the chaotic calm. Skulls dance in crematoria and fantastic flying-discs flutter in the skies and cry anarchy, resident ghosts gossip and prattle, and the police officers are in total confusion. Government and Police are forced to surrender and offer a peace proposal to the joint force. Peace comes to the city, but as a result of this mutiny, the Communist Government loses it power in the State.
    

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