2010 · drama · music · folk
Natarang
Directed by Ravi Jadhav2h 7m2010
Guna is a village labourer in the hinterlands of Maharashtra. Holding a passion for the 'tamasha' theatre shows, he decides to start his own troupe. Instead of the prestigious role of the king he always dreamed of, he ends up having to play a 'nachya', an effeminate, homosexual man. He goes ahead with the decision, which forever changes him and his family, as he ends up torn between his artistic passion and his societal prestige.
Our read: Natarang (2010) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · music · folk entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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