Chitrangada - The Crowning Wish

2012 • 129 minutes

About this movie

Rudra Chatterjee (Rituparno Ghosh), as a young man defied the social convention, and became a choreographer instead of an engineer. 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 are deep into a passionate love affair. During the course of their relationship, they decide to adopt a child. But there is one problem: same-sex couples are not permitted to adopt children. So Rudra decides to go through a gender change treatment to embrace the womanhood he longs for. But will this surgery change his life and fulfill all his long-cherished dreams? A 'film-within-film' only this time the film-within is Tagore's epochal epic Chitrangada - "our identity is what we wish to be". (CBFC A CIL/3/18/2012-KOL)

Ratings and reviews

Slow movie , its speed is not its defect , it seems slow to people like me who often not speak but choose to scream and forget their own language. The brilliance of Rituparna Ghosh shines out of the movie and takes the coronation of the Ring form in an otherwise eclipsed world of routine mundane buzz. His exceptional hold on human relationships and his refined sense of drama come alive on the celluloid.

Ritaparna Ghosh is not only a good director...he is a brilliant actor.....what a thought.....the beautiful mixed up of Tagor's Chitrangada and here a gay director.....the best part of the movie is ' bodhu Kon Alo laglo choke'.....the patient was in the operation theater and the light focused on his eyes.....that comparetion is just awesome ❤❤❤❤

A masterpiece that Will make you change your definition of love.So Good !! Miss more movies from Rituporno Sengupta