Bengali    Dec 24, 2010 (India)

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Arekti Premer Galpo is a 2010 Indian Bengali drama film released on Dec 24, 2010. The film is directed by Koushik Ganguly, produced by Tapan Biswas.

Chapal Bhaduri, the most noted actor of jatra who used to potray woman’s roles though he is a man is the subject of a film being made by Abhiroop Sen, a Delhi based filmmaker.Abhiroop who is openly gay and lives with his cinematographer, Basu has as lot of things in common with Chapal as they are both gay(though Chapal could ever express it and was ridiculed throughout his life)though Abhiroop is much more open in today’s society in his beliefs, his dresses and the way he carries himself. Maybe that is the reason why he is comfortable on making a film on such a subject.Basu is bisexual and his wife is aware about their relationship.Abhiroop always feels that as if he is a woman trapped in a man’s body .There is immense tension between Basu and Abhiroop as Basu is playing a balancing act between Abhi and Rani and their relationship might even snap.

After they begin shooting, strong objections are raised by the media and the people in general when they come to know about the film’s content; they raise a hue and cry about it and the film’s director. The team is forced to seek alternative pastures and are helped by Uday, a France based photographer who offers his ancestral home for the shooting. The crew members of the film also double up as actors in the film .Abhi plays Chapal Rani, Basu plays Kumarbabu, his lover, Uday plays Tushar, one of Chapal’s lovers and Chapal plays himself. There is even a sort of friction between Chapal and Abhiroop on some matters, but it is sorted out later on. When Rani arrives there one day, Basu and Abhiroop separate. There is even a confrontation between Rani and Abhi .Abhi even comes to know that Rani is pregnant and this shocks him though he is happy for the couple. He knows this will make Basu further move away from Abhi.After the shooting gets over, Basu and Rani go away and so does Abhi to their own different places.

This is an ‘unusual’ film in the Indian cultural context, in the way it handles issues of gender, sexuality and same–sex relationships.

The surprising yet relevant elements pertain to the melding of private and personal issues with a long–standing cultural traditions of boys and men playing female roles on the traditional Bengali stage.

One of these androgynous men, who is still alive (age 71), is interviewed in the film for a proposed documentary to be made by a young gay filmmaker. As he reveals the most poignant moments and incidents of his chequered life as a ‘heroine’, the gay director–protagonist with his bisexual Cinematographer partner, as well as those in their immediate circle, experience similar yet different conflicts mirrored in their own lives.

Thus, two parallel narratives start running side by side. The principal story of the director making a documentary on a queen of yesteryears is interwined with the fictional renditions of the old queen’s colourful life.

Despite the differences between the chronicler and his subject- the newly liberated and the closeted; the informed and the virtually unlettered; the brash and the bashful–there is a core element of essential empathy between two human beings marginalized by the society.

Has the gay director been in denial then? Is his ‘coming out’ as liberating as imagined?

Incidentally the Indian Penal Code which has long discriminated against homosexuality by treating it as a criminal, and thus a legally punishable offense, has been recently repealed by the Delhi High Court. Gay rights activists have since been dancing on the streets.

Though our film was conceived much earlier, the contemporary relevance of the subject becomes all the more thought–provoking and important.

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  • jeevan789

    4.5

    galpo holeo je sotti...

    jeevan789, 9 years ago
    This is one of the block buster movie
  • bollyfan25

    3.0

    Brilliant Ritu and Chapal

    bollyfan25, 9 years ago
    This is nice movie. I liked it.
  • rajverma67

    4.0

    Best Production Of This Year (2010)...

    rajverma67, 9 years ago
    Super hit movie. I loved everything about this movie.

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