National Award Winning Movie: Nagarkirtan With English Subtitles

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Kaushik Ganguly’s film Nagarkirtan is an example of near-perfect cinema. It is a movie that is powerful on one hand and sensitive on the other, a scathing commentary on the life of transgenders in contemporary Indian society on one hand and a beautiful love story on the other. 

In short, the main goal of this movie is to show that love has no gender. It is like the exuberance of tiny droplets that flow across electric wires only to occasionally dissolve into a whole. The lucky droplets unite. The unlucky others, pregnant with pain and anguish, suffer an emotional miscarriage. They either drop off the wire or wait in isolation to evaporate while the world around is happily romancing the petrichor in the air.

Porimal (Riddhi Sen) is a woman trapped in a man’s body. Unable to cope with the trauma of being ‘betrayed’ by his teacher Subhash-da (Indrasish Roy), Porimal runs away from home and joins a ghetto of eunuchs as Puti and sings at traffic signals to earn money. There he falls in love with Madhu (Ritwick Chakraborty), a delivery boy with a Chinese restaurant who moonlights as a flautist in kirtans. The love blossoms even as Puti dreams of raising money required for the sex reassigned surgery. But will society support their dreams?

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