Nagarkirtan
| Nagarkirtan | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Kaushik Ganguly |
| Screenplay by | Kaushik Ganguly |
| Produced by | Acropolis Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. |
| Starring | Riddhi Sen Ritwick Chakraborty |
| Cinematography | Sirsha Ray |
| Edited by | Subhajit Singha |
| Music by | Prabuddha Banerjee |
Production company | Acropoliis Entertainment |
Release date | 22 February 2019 (Kolkata) |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
Nagarkirtan is a 2019 Indian Bengali film written and directed by Kaushik Ganguly. The film stars Riddhi Sen as Parimal, a boy from rural Bengal and Ritwick Chakraborty as Madhu, a flute player from the Kirtaniya town of Nabadweep.[1]
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.[2][3][4][5]
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.
Plot
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 homophobic society does not support their dreams.
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Cast
- Riddhi Sen as Parimal / Puti
- Ritwick Chakraborty as Madhu
Awards
- 2017: National Film Awards [6]
- Special Jury Award (Feature Film): Nagarkirtan - Acropoliis Entertainment (Producer), Kaushik Ganguly (Director)
- Best Actor: Riddhi Sen
- Best Costume Design: Gobinda Mandal
- Best Make-up Artist: Ram Rajak
References
- ^ "Ritwick Chakraborty and Riddhi Sen to play main characters in controversial 'Nagarkirtan'". The Times of India. March 29, 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
- ^ "65th National Film Awards for 2017 announced". Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. April 13, 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
- ^ "Won't take National Award for granted, says Bhoomi actor Riddhi Sen". Hindustan Times. April 17, 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
- ^ IANS (2018-05-11). "Riddhi Sen gave world beating performance in 'Nagarkirtan': Shekhar Kapur". Business Standard India. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
- ^ "Importance of Being Earnest". The Indian Express. 2018-05-09. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
- ^ "17th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
External links
- Nagarkirtan at IMDb
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