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Performing the Goddess

Plot: "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
Release Date: Friday, July 30 1999
25 years ago
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Cast

Portrait of Chapal  BhaduriChapal BhaduriChapal Bhaduri was >> in Performing the Goddess as 'Self'.
Birthday: Unknown Birthday

Crew

Portrait of Naveen KishoreNaveen KishoreNaveen Kishore was >> in Performing the Goddess as 'Researcher, Director, Editor'
Birthday: Unknown Birthday
Portrait of Pushan KripalaniPushan KripalaniPushan Kripalani was >> in Performing the Goddess as 'Editor, Cinematography'
Birthday: Unknown Birthday
Portrait of Rajib AdityaRajib AdityaRajib Aditya was >> in Performing the Goddess as 'Editor'
Birthday: Unknown Birthday
Portrait of Anjum KatyalAnjum KatyalAnjum Katyal was >> in Performing the Goddess as 'Researcher'
Birthday: Unknown Birthday