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Title: How to train your drags
Post by: Shana A on May 10, 2010, 11:18:39 AM
How to train your drags
Sudha Umashanker

http://beta.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article426159.ece (http://beta.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article426159.ece)

Many actors have played drags effortlessly on screen. A look at some of the roles in English, Hindi and Tamil films

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Biswajit was one of the earliest actors in Hindi, to venture into the drag territory — dressing up as a woman for a song sequence ('Kajra Mohabbat Wala') with Babita, who masqueraded as a man in "Kismat". Big B raised eyebrows when he did a sequence in Prakash Mehra's "Lawaris" in drag. The versatile Aamir Khan was in drag in Ashutosh Gowariker's "Baazi" for a number, and Ashutosh Rana played a transsexual politician Shabnam Mausi — a role he's said to have enjoyed playing.