The film is not about me
Rituparno Ghosh speaks about playing a bi-sexual filmmaker in Just Another Love Story; scoffs at rumours of undergoing a sex change operation
By Subhash K Jha
Posted On Monday, October 05, 2009 at 03:03:32 AM
http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?page=article§id=13&contentid=200910052009100503033278f282a82e§xslt=Ritu plays a double role in Just Another Love Story. One is that of Abhiroop Sen, a gay documentary filmmaker from Delhi, whose bisexual lover is the DOP of the film in the film. They visit Kolkata to make a documentary on the life of the real-life legendary Jatra actor Chapal Bhaduri. Ritu also essays the role of Chapal in his youth.
Ritu was initially apprehensive about the role but was convinced of the director's motives after watching his telefilm on a lesbian couple. "To play two parts, that of the director Abhiroop Sen and Chapal in his youth wasn't easy. Abhiroop is neither a man nor a woman, he belongs to the third sex. As for Chapal, he always felt that he was a woman trapped in a man's body. These two different concepts of androgyny and sexual identity had to be brought out. There's no external factor of femininity in Chapalda. Only when he speaks do we hear a woman's voice. I loved the two roles because they challenge the stereotypical image of gay men," says Ritu.
