Performing the Goddess (1999)
Performing the Goddess (1999)
"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

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Chapal  Bhaduri Chapal Bhaduri As: Self
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"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


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Genres: Documentary

Language: বাংলা

Release Date: 30 July 1999

Country: IN

Runtime: 44m

Company Credits

Company: The Seagull Foundation for the Arts

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Anjum Katyal

Anjum Katyal

Researcher

Naveen Kishore

Naveen Kishore

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Pushan Kripalani

Pushan Kripalani

Cinematography

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