Parimal is a woman trapped in a man’s body who 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, a delivery boy with a Chinese restaurant who moonlights as a flautist in kirtans. The love blossoms even as Puti dreams of raising the money required for the sex reassignment surgery.
Acting
Riddhi Sen's physical transformation is devastatingly specific.
Direction
Ganguly shoots Kolkata's margins with unflinching tenderness.
Score
Flute motifs that ache — literally the sound of longing.
Director
Kaushik Ganguly
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film sparked debate in Bengal about casting cis actors in trans roles — Riddhi Sen is male-bodied playing female-bodied, not a trans woman, a layered choice Ganguly defended.
The traffic signal singing sequences were shot with actual hijra communities; many background performers are non-actors whose lived experience bleeds into frame.
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