MEDIATHEK

Bewerbungsvideo für Theater der Welt 1999.

Anuradha Kapur’s Sundari based on the autobiography of the legendary Gujarati

actor Jaishankar Sundari, who was a popular female impersonator of Gujrati stage in early 20th century Bombay. Centered around the works of eminent painters Bhupen Khakkar and Nilima Sheikh, the play documents the process of his journey from a boy to a man and simultaneously from a male to a female, in the context of contemporary gender discourses and politics of acting.

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