I was never in a closet: Rituparno
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Regional-Stars/I-was-never-in-a-closet-Rituparno/articleshow/4603765.cmsAFSANA AHMED
6/2/09
But, he begs to differ, "I was never in a closet, I always wore kohl, kurtas, my mannerisms were always talked about. I never hid anything. I lived the way and wore the look, I wanted." Rumours of his having undergone a sex change have Rituparno indignant.
Listen, I don't feel like a woman trapped in a man's body," he says coldly. "I am completely free and liberated to walk around in the matrix of androgyny. " But, yes, he admits that Kolkata has been much more reverent to him than liberal cities like Mumbai and Delhi. "It has always viewed me the way I've been and respects me as a thinking mind, rather than speculating about my sexual preferences," says the man who's made Hindi films like the Aishwarya Bachchan and Ajay Devgan starrer Raincoat and the Amitabh Bachchan-Preity Zinta film The Last Lear.
