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Just Another Love Story

Country: India, Language: Bengali, 128 mins

Original Title

Aarekti Premer Golpo
  • Director: Kaushik Ganguly; Rituparno Ghosh
  • Writer: Kaushik Ganguly; Rituparno Ghosh
  • Producer: Arijit Biswas; Tapan Biswas

CGiii Comment

By cutting - at least - 40 minutes...a credible film could have been salvaged from this sprawling diatribe.

The version we saw was bizarre...weird, high-pitched dubbed voices coming from masculine mouths...unintentionally hilarious!

Rituparno Ghosh is a one-man bad and curator of the trans genre in India...the international audience are mightily more difficult to please.

Less rambling, more energy and a tight focus on the important strands of the story...then, 2 hours will not drag by...as is the case here.


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The(ir) Blurb...

The movie is about a Delhi base trans gender documentary filmmaker Abhiroop Sen and his bisexual lover cinematographer. They wanted to make a documentary on the life of famous "Jatra" actor "Chapal Bhaduri" But doing so Sen recognized that his life resemble Chapal's life. The movie revolves around the trauma, the pressure,the setbacks, heartache and several situations faced by trans gender.

Cast & Characters

Rituparno Ghosh as Abhiroop / Chapals Vergangenheit;
Chapal Bhaduri as Chapal Bhaduri;
Indraneil Sengupta as Basu / Kumar;
Jishu Sengupta as Uday / Tushar;
Churni Ganguly as Rani / Gopa;
Raima Sen as Momo / Sheela;
Arindam Sil as Ashoke Babu;
Arindoi Bagchi as Prashanta;
Taranga Sarkar as Khoka;
Bimal Chakraborty as Madhav Babu