Chitrangada The Crowning Wish (2015)

Rudra Chatterjee Rituparno Ghosh as a young man defied the social convention and became a choreographer instead of an engineer As he prepares with his team to stage Tagores Chitrangada he meets Partho Jisshu Sengupta who is a drugaddict percussionist introduced to the team by the main dancer Kasturi Raima Sen Soon Rudra develops a chemistry with Partho and they are deep in a passionate love affair During the course of their relationship they decide to adopt a child But there is one problem samesex couples are not permitted to adopt children So Rudra decides to go through a gender change treatment to embrace the womanhood he longs for But will this surgery change his life and fulfill all his longcherished dreams A filmwithinfilm only this time the filmwithin is Tagores epochal epic Chitrangada our identity is what we wish to be