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Now a Bengali film on male transgenders frequenting traffic signals

| | Feb 11, 2016, at 04:53 pm
Kolkata, Feb 11 (IBNS) Exploring the world of male transgenders frequenting road crossings of the city, young director Barshali Chatterjee's Bengali film Jenana stars Saswata Chatterjee, Priyanka Sarkar and Sampurna among others.

 "Jenana takes a sneak peek into the never-seen-before world of those men who join the transgender community for their livelihood as Somu become Sumona and likewise. The film revolves around the transgender community with an extensive research work for months," Barshali says about the film..

 Says Saswata, "Jenana is a tale of the flourishing 'industry' that exists at the traffic signals, the male community who change their social-sexual identity to eke out a living."

"May sound cliche but seriously I accepted the film's offer as I had never portrayed a role like this beforehand. And I mean it," Saswata says.

Barshali says, “This film aims to explore that relatively unfamiliar Kolkata where a man is joining the transgender community and that community is christened Jenanas. My film begins with Somu aka Sumona, a jenana, narrating his story to an aspiring young director Riya."

"We chose a public place - opposite Tollygunje metro station - for film's promotion since Jenana talks about the street fighters who are spurned by society and we see countless of such Jenanas, with heavily made up faces, across important public thoroughfares," the young, spunky director says.

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