In this film's spirited opening scene, they are seen in their finest clothes, as they are invited to shower a newborn with good luck.
Frustrated with the narrowly defined visibility thrust upon her community, trans model and activist Rudrani Chettri launches her own modelling agency, with the hope of providing more professional opportunities.
Chettri's fight for a secular understanding of transgender identity is complicated by the rise of Hindu nationalism in India.
The complexity of marginalised figures being absorbed into autocratic systems demands a much more rigorous analysis.
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