The Eunuch and the Flute Player (2019)
Overview
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.
Cast
Ritwick Chakraborty
Madhu
Riddhi Sen
Parimal (Puti)
Sujan Mukherjee
Bidipta Chakraborty
Indrasish Roy
Manabi Bandyopadhyay
Arun Guhatharkurta
Madhu's Father
Animesh Bhaduri
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