Performing the Goddess

Chapal Bhaduri a leading lady of Bengals traditional folk traveling theatreintheround 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 societyand showing how he metamorphoses into the goddess to perform her story The Bangalore International Centre