Director Kaushik Ganguly’s ‘Nagarkirtan’ had bagged many awards and also participated in national and international film festivals. The film which has completed one year stars Riddhi Sen and Ritwick Chakraborty in the lead role.
On this day, Riddhi Sen shares a collage of pictures and pens down an emotional message on Instagram, “A Friday which came too late but went away in the blink of an eye . 22nd February,2020, here we meet another Friday , one whole year has passed , so many thing have remained the same, but few things have changed for sure. A lot of car windows now come down hearing a knock , more than a handful of people are comfortable looking at them in the eye. Madhu and Pnuti successfully erased one thing from many hearts , the concept of ‘us and them' . The tune of Madhu da’s flute still makes a lot of people cry , yes , even after one year , in a world full of ‘right here right now ‘ , Kaushik Ganguly’s Nagarkirtan holds a mirror infront of the society which still makes people go ‘still ‘ , it makes people a little more human. #oneyearofNagarkirtan @ritwickchak.”
Nagarkirtan is a love story of a transwoman and flutist which stars Riddhi Sen and Ritwik Chakraborty. It is a critically acclaimed movie that swept many national awards.
The film stars Riddhi Sen as Parimal, a trans woman from rural Bengal, and Ritwick Chakraborty as Madhu, a flute player from the Kirtaniya town of Nabadwip. Porimal 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. Their love blossoms while they dream of raising the 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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