CinemaOSMovie · 1999 · 0h 44m

Performing the Goddess

60%(1)Documentary

"Chapal Bhaduri, a leading lady of Bengal’s traditional folk traveling theatre-in-the-round, the Jatra, spent his life playing women. This film is an intimate biography that brings you face to face with this unique individual, sharing what it means to him to become a woman night after night, talking of the woman inside his body, of troubled sexuality, of a long partnership with his older lover, of the loneliness of living on the edges of conventional society–and showing how he metamorphoses into the goddess to perform her story." - The Bangalore International Centre

Directed byNaveen Kishore

Play
Status
Released
Runtime
0h 44m
Language
BN
Released
July 30, 1999
Studios
The Seagull Foundation for the Arts

Featuring

Cast & crew

1 credited
Starring

Chapal Bhaduri

Self

Creative team
Directed by
Naveen Kishore

Keep watching

More like this

Not Your Dream Drag Show10.0

Not Your Dream Drag Show

2025 · Film

My Name Is The Sound I Use To Introduce Myself

My Name Is The Sound I Use To Introduce Myself

2024 · Film

MUTANT DOLL

MUTANT DOLL

2023 · Film

Death To Straight White Men 2017

Death To Straight White Men 2017

2017 · Film

Becoming Queer Joy

Becoming Queer Joy

2023 · Film

Frankenstein Created Robyn

Frankenstein Created Robyn

2026 · Film

Our Aotearoa

Our Aotearoa

2022 · Film

Me, brother and the name Hrušínský7.0

Me, brother and the name Hrušínský

2025 · Film

Nicolas Maury, ceux qui l'aiment prendront le train

Nicolas Maury, ceux qui l'aiment prendront le train

2024 · Film

I Recognize You, Yet You Feel Strange

I Recognize You, Yet You Feel Strange

2026 · Film

Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution7.0

Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution

2017 · Film

We Can Be Heroes2.0

We Can Be Heroes

2024 · Film

Love, Ava5.5

Love, Ava

2020 · Film

Baldiga: Unlocked Heart

Baldiga: Unlocked Heart

2024 · Film

Safe Space

Safe Space

2023 · Film

Lesson from our garden

Lesson from our garden

2026 · Film

Mondo Cane 2000 -The Incredible3.2

Mondo Cane 2000 -The Incredible

1988 · Film

Submissive Omission

Submissive Omission

2022 · Film

Pinkie

Pinkie

2024 · Film

Babsi Adler

Babsi Adler

2022 · Film

Picked for you

Recommended movies

Come See Me in the Good Light7.2

Come See Me in the Good Light

2025 · Film

McQueen7.4

McQueen

2018 · Film

28 Up7.5

28 Up

1985 · Film

The Curse of the Dragon7.2

The Curse of the Dragon

1993 · Film

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library6.4

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

2017 · Film

Love, Gilda7.2

Love, Gilda

2018 · Film

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin7.0

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin

2003 · Film

Nothing Like a Dame6.8

Nothing Like a Dame

2018 · Film

Sidney6.9

Sidney

2022 · Film

In the Realms of the Unreal7.2

In the Realms of the Unreal

2004 · Film

Jane Fonda in Five Acts7.1

Jane Fonda in Five Acts

2018 · Film

Disclosure7.8

Disclosure

2020 · Film

My Mom Jayne8.0

My Mom Jayne

2025 · Film

Frida6.8

Frida

2024 · Film

The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story7.3

The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story

2019 · Film

Heart of a Dog6.5

Heart of a Dog

2015 · Film

The Last Repair Shop7.5

The Last Repair Shop

2024 · Film

To Kill a Tiger7.6

To Kill a Tiger

2023 · Film

Elstree 19766.2

Elstree 1976

2015 · Film

Welcome to Chechnya6.9

Welcome to Chechnya

2020 · Film