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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Nagarkirtan <br/> নগরকীর্তন<br />
| image = Nagarkirtan poster.jpg<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = Film poster<br />
| director = [[Kaushik Ganguly]]<br />
| producer = [[Acropolis Entertainment]] Pvt. Ltd.<br />
| writer = Kaushik Ganguly<br />
| starring = [[Riddhi Sen]]<br/>[[Ritwick Chakraborty]]<br />
| music = Prabuddha Banerjee<br />
| cinematography = [[Sirsha Ray]]<br />
| editing = Subhajit Singha<br />
| studio = Acropoliis Entertainment<br />
| distributor = <!-- or: | distributors = --><br />
| released = {{Film date|2017|01|01|df=y}}<br />
| runtime = 115 minutes<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Bengali<br />
| budget = <br />
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'''''Nagarkirtan''''' (নগরকীর্তন) is a 2017 Indian Bengali film written and directed by [[Kaushik Ganguly]]. 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]].<ref>{{cite web | title = Ritwick Chakraborty and Riddhi Sen to play main characters in controversial 'Nagarkirtan'| url = https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/ritwick-chakraborty-and-riddhi-sen-to-play-main-characters-in-controversial-nagarkirtan/articleshow/63532364.cms |date = 29 March 2018| access-date = 2018-04-30 | newspaper = [[The Times of India]] }}</ref><br />
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At the [[65th National Film Awards]] the film won four Awards including, [[National Film Award – Special Jury Award (Feature Film)|Special Jury Award (Feature Film)]] and [[National Film Award for Best Actor]] for [[Riddhi Sen]].<ref>{{cite web| title = 65th National Film Awards for 2017 announced| url = http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=178652 |date= 13 April 2018| access-date = 2018-04-30 |work=Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| title = Won't take National Award for granted, says Bhoomi actor Riddhi Sen |work=Hindustan Times| url = https://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/won-t-take-national-award-for-granted-says-bhoomi-actor-riddhi-sen/story-Xj42BhHceXhQiIxluuqIjK.html |date = 17 April 2018<br />
| access-date = 2018-04-30 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/riddhi-sen-gave-world-beating-performance-in-nagarkirtan-shekhar-kapur-118051100329_1.html|title=Riddhi Sen gave world beating performance in 'Nagarkirtan': Shekhar Kapur|last=IANS|date=2018-05-11|work=Business Standard India|access-date=2018-05-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/importance-of-being-earnest/|title=Importance of Being Earnest|date=2018-05-09|work=The Indian Express|access-date=2018-05-15|language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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== Plot ==<br />
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Unable to cope with the trauma of being ‘betrayed’ by her teacher Subhash-da (Indrasish Roy), Porimal, an intersex woman, runs away from home and joins a ghetto of intersex people as Puti and sings at traffic signals to earn money. There she falls in love with Madhu (Ritwick Chakraborty), a delivery boy with a Chinese restaurant who moonlights as a flautist in kirtans. Their love blossoms while they dream of raising money required for the sex reassigned surgery after meeting the first intersex 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.<br />
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== Cast ==<br />
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* [[Riddhi Sen]] as Parimal / Puti<br />
* [[Ritwick Chakraborty]] as Madhu<br />
* Manabi Bandyopadhyay as herself<br />
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==Scope==<br />
The film is a document that frames this experience of an invisible community, rarely portrayed in Indian mainstream cinema. The fabric of Ganguly's film moves beyond the binaries of a linear and complex narrative and instead brings forth a breathtaking ruthlessness that mirrors the hidden lives and traumas of the Transgender/ Hijra/ Intersex/ gender non-conforming communities.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mediainfoline.com/entertainment/nagarkirtan-selected-49th-international-film-festival-india| title=Nagarkirtan selected in Indian Panorama section of the 49th International Film Festival of India|work=MediaInfoline|date=9 November 2018|access-date=25 March 2019}}</ref> The film embodies the visceral experience of these communities battling centuries of prejudice and taboo. The community's lived realities of being caught between questions of vice and virtue, desire and rejection sustains the film's body narrative – rather precariously – avoiding a moral position – yet examining the very contours that makes taking these positions complicated. In a society that largely considers trans bodies as dustbins to dump its traumas and miscarriages of justice, the film signals a language of change that can be used to build a narrative of resistance.<br />
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==Awards==<br />
*2017: [[65th National Film Awards|National Film Awards]]<ref name="17thaward">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/17th_NFF_1971.pdf|title=17th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=12 April 2013}}</ref><br />
** [[National Film Award – Special Jury Award (Feature Film)|Special Jury Award (Feature Film)]]: Nagarkirtan - Acropoliis Entertainment (Producer), [[Kaushik Ganguly]] (Director)<br />
** [[National Film Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]: [[Riddhi Sen]]<br />
** [[National Film Award for Best Costume Design|Best Costume Design]]: Gobinda Mandal<br />
**[[National Film Award for Best Make-up Artist|Best Make-up Artist]]: Ram Rajak<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
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