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Nagarkirtan

Country: India, Language: Bengali, 115 mins

Original Title

The Eunuch and the Flute Player
  • Director: Kaushik Ganguly
  • Writer: Kaushik Ganguly
  • Producer: Joy Ganguly

CGiii Comment

Unable to cope with the trauma of being ‘betrayed’ by her teacher Subhash-da (Indrasish Roy), Porimal, a trans woman, runs away from home and joins a ghetto of eunuchs as Puti and sings at traffic signals to earn money. There she falls in love with Madhu (Ritwick Chakraborty), a delivery boy with a Chinese restaurant who moonlights as a flautist in kirtans. Their love blossoms while they dream of raising money required for the sex reassigned surgery after meeting the first transgender person in India who has completed Doctor of Philosophy, Manabi Bandyopadhyay. But transphobic society does not support their dreams. Puti is arrested and commits suicide by hanging herself with her towel inside the lock up at a police station. Eventually, Madhu joins the same ghetto of eunuchs.


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Cast & Characters

Bidipta Chakraborty
Ritwick Chakraborty as Madhu
Sujan Mukherjee
Indrasish Roy
Riddhi Sen as Puti