Paying tribute to the recently deceased gifted film maker Rituparno Ghosh, Red Shift Café in Gulshan will show the director’s masterpiece “Chitrangada - A Crowning Wish!” on Friday at 4pm.
The film was released on 2012 and is Ghosh’s most personal and groundbreaking movie. The director himself plays the protagonist who is a gay and is a choreographer directing poet Rabindranath Tagore’s epic play with the same title.
Chitrangada is a story of wish. The film correlates the real materialistic daily life with Tagore’s Chitrangada. The protagonist is Rudra Chatterjee who has spent his life going against society convention.
As a young man he defied his father’s wishes to become an engineer and became a choreographer instead. As he prepares with his team to stage Tagore’s Chitrangada, he meets Partho, Jishu Sengupta who is a drug-addict percussionist introduced to the team by the main dancer Kasturi Raima Sen.
Soon, Rudra develops a chemistry with Partho and they both get involved in a passionate love affair. During the course of their togetherness they decide to adopt a child. But there is one problem: same-sex couples are not permitted to adopt children. Hence Rudra decides to go through a gender reassignment treatment to embrace the womanhood he longs for.
But will this surgery change his life and fulfill all his long-cherished dreams? The movie is very out of the box, as always like other movies of the Rituparno Ghosh.
